From Gladinet Cloud Desktop 2.4 release, the original ‘Backup’ function is renamed to Mirrored Backup. It better describes the feature set. The local folders are monitored and changes are mirrored to the cloud storage as a second copy.

Mean while, the Gladinet Cloud Backup functionality is available in Cloud Desktop, as a separate add-on.

Mirrored Backup:

This was the ‘Backup’ function in previous Cloud Desktop release. Cloud Desktop monitors the local source folders/files and uploads the source files with the same folder structure to the cloud storage, to create a mirror. There is only one copy of the source file mirrored in the cloud. If there is any file change locally, Cloud Desktop will overwrite the copy in the cloud, with the new version. You can use this feature to create a second copy of the local files and folders for backup purpose.

See here for details.

Snapshot Backup:

The new Backup function works the same way as Gladinet Cloud Backup. Cloud Backup backs up the source folders/files to cloud as snapshots. Admin can define how often to create a full snapshot. After a full snapshot, if OS supports, Cloud Backup will do an incremental upload of the changed file. There is no need to upload the whole file again. Backup also supports uploading open/locked files.

Moreover, snapshot backup solution supports live backups of Windows State, SQL Server, Exchange Server, etc  to the cloud storage of your choice.

User can restore from any snapshot.

Please notice that a separate license is required for the Backup function.

See here for details.

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