{"id":145,"date":"2013-04-29T14:19:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T13:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2013-05-29T09:02:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T08:02:49","slug":"igaware-linux-small-business-server-releases-support-for-amazon-s3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/igaware-linux-small-business-server-releases-support-for-amazon-s3\/","title":{"rendered":"Igaware Linux Small Business Server releases support for Amazon S3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK vendor Igaware, has announced support for the Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), enabling Igaware <a title=\"Linux Small Business Server\" href=\"http:\/\/www.igaware.com\/products\/linux-small-business-server\">Linux Small Business Server<\/a> customers to use Amazon S3 for off-site backup.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Sexton, Igaware Sales Director told us: \u201cCustomers told us they wanted an off-site backup service that would allow them to choose to have their data backed up within the EU, enabling them to meet with regulatory requirements; Amazon S3 has a data centre in Ireland. Igaware <a title=\"Linux Small Business Server\" href=\"http:\/\/www.igaware.com\/products\/linux-small-business-server\">Linux Small Business Server<\/a> customers can now simply tick a box to use Amazon S3 as a backup destination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another important factor influencing the Igaware decision to support Amazon S3, was that it overcomes the fact that it can take many days to restore data over the Internet; 250 Gigabytes of data can take over 30 days to restore using a standard broadband connection.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Moore, Igaware Technical Director, explained:\u00a0 \u201cAmazon S3 gets around the problem of backing up large amounts of data over the Internet with their AWS Import\/Export service. A backup can be run to an external hard drive, and shipped directly to Amazon S3. This gets the initial backup in place, and the Igaware\u00a0<a title=\"Linux Small Business Server\" href=\"http:\/\/www.igaware.com\/products\/linux-small-business-server\">Linux Small Business Server<\/a> can then backup daily changes in data thereafter. In the event of a full system restore, data can be shipped back to the customer, next day. Amazon S3 fits in with our approach of making things easy for customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The support for Amazon S3 has be rolled out automatically to Igaware <a title=\"Linux Small Business Server\" href=\"http:\/\/www.igaware.com\/products\/linux-small-business-server\">Linux Small Business Server<\/a> customers, as part of the Igaware continuous update service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK vendor Igaware, has announced support for the Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), enabling Igaware Linux Small Business Server customers to use Amazon S3 for off-site backup. Tim Sexton, Igaware Sales Director told us: \u201cCustomers told us they wanted an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/igaware-linux-small-business-server-releases-support-for-amazon-s3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-small-business-server","category-system-updates","tag-linux-small-business-server-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QVqI-2l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}