How to use off-site NAS with my MBS from Cloudberry lab

Managed Backup Service (MBS) and how it works (Cloudberry lab)

At Cloudberry lab we developed nice tool for MSP (Managed service providers), — managed backup service (or MBS). There is online service (MBS website), that manages everything for providers:

Storage accounts;
Users logins and passwords;
Custom builds for clients (there are agents for Windows, Mac, Linux as well as for applications Exchange and SQL .. and VM edition for VMware / Hyper-V virtual machines to back them up in agent less way!).

The overall concept is here, but better to watch quick video:

Managed backup service from Cloudberry and how it works!

There are other things that might be worth to mention (e.g. Cloudberry Drive and Explorer to manage files across local and cloud environment), but this is already described and I want to focus on another thing here.

So MBS currently offers the following list of supported providers (actually you get this full list once you sign in into MBS portal and start managing your destinations):

List of storage providers Managed Backup Service supports today (Cloudberry lab)

These all awesome, but there are questions on to use local storage (either on customer side or service provider).

Well, FTP/SFTP would be the option to go (check if it is available in MBS for your storage provider account, otherwise you need to ask), S3 compatible might be #2 option, but this requires your NAS work in S3 compatible mode (we see several models can do this).

One more option would be to set S3 compatible software right to NAS (usually it runs some linux OS and should not be a big deal to set couple of daemons to have them serve your NAS directories as S3 object storage destination for files).

Ok, last but not least is to set firewall rules (corporate network) accordingly. Have a look at this Cloudberry Knowledge base where MBS ports usage described.

That’s it! If you have any questions — let us know!