Setting up Google Cloud Storage using Windows NAS (The RNAS series appliances) Google Cloud Storage using Windows NAS is possible because Google uses an Amazon S3 compatible (Object and Bucket based) cloud. This encompasses several storage options including multi-regional, regional, nearline, and coldline storage.  Each of these looks the same to the end-user, the differences…

Cloud-to-Cloud backup is becoming more important for protecting data from crypto-viruses, user errors, and vendor outages. The RNAS series of appliances can be used as cloud-to-cloud (C2C) backup appliances.  Some of the reasons to do “reverse-cloud” or Cloud-to-Local jobs apply here as well.  In the screenshot nearby, a test is underway which transfers a large…

Amazon S3 5GB Limit Amazon S3 and compatible services used to have a 5GB object (file size) limit. Although Amazon Changed the total object limit in 2010 to 5TB it is still true that the largest object that can be uploaded in a single PUT command is 5 gigabytes.  They  require that the software uploading…