As your grandparents would always say, don't keep all your eggs in one basket; SnapShooter says, don't keep all your backups in one bucket. We have been working hard to make SnapShooter better and better, and in this instalment of improvements, we have added the ability for your backup jobs to be stored in more than 1 location. Continue Read
Welcome to the second installment of our new Customer Spotlight series. In it, we highlight the many different kinds of companies and organizations that use SnapShooter. Today, weâre excited to have Iakovos Frountas, founder of Bake My WP. Continue Read
Welcome to the first instalment of our new Customer Spotlight series. In it, weâll highlight the many different kinds of companies and organisations that use SnapShooter. Our first spotlight is on Cobalt Intelligence and its founder, Jordan Hansen. Continue Read
With the increase in digitalized business, the need to get a backup for your essential data is a must. Data has become more valuable for many small to medium-sized business houses, large enterprises, and individuals nowadays. The more we are switching to cloud services, the more we have the threat of malware attacks and data breaches. The vital question is your company prepared for the upcoming disaster? Cybersecurity has emerged as the best solution for many organizations, yet there are many practices that one must follow from their end to protect the data loss. As a result, one needs to make sure they have a solid backup strategy to combat in case a disaster strikes. Continue Read
Weâre excited to announce that SnapShooter has received several industry accreditations, including ISO 27001:2013, ISO 22301:2019, ISO 9001: 2015 and CyberEssentialâs Certificate of Assurance. While that may look like a long list of numbers jammed together, itâs actually very significant. It means that SnapShooter has taken the necessary steps to ensure that your data is safe, the quality of our work is at the highest level and guarantees that should something happen to our business, it can carry on and your data will remain protected. Continue Read
Weâre happy to announce that SnapShooter will now backup to and from Dropbox. Weâre excited to add Dropbox to our list of providers that we natively support. Continue Read
Weâre happy to announce that SnapShooter now will encrypt backups stored in the cloud. This new optional setting is now generally available on the platform. Using a customerâs public key, we will use AES encryption on your files on the fly before they are sent to their ultimate storage destination. You will then be able to decrypt them using your private key. But AES is a symmetric encryption, you might be saying. Yes, you are correct. This is why we have SnapShooter users generate an RSA public and private key pair. Using that public key, we generate a unique key per backup using OpenSSL and encrypt the data on the fly. We do this because the rsautl program isnât great at encrypting large amounts of data, so we use OpenSSL to do the encryption. Specifically, the command weâre using is openssl enc -aes-256-cbc. Continue Read
SnapShooter announces new permission management features for data backed up from S3. Try out this connector today. Continue Read
Regularly backing up the system data is an essential part of any system administrator. Setting up and managing all backup manually is a very difficult task for any system administrator. SnapShooter offers a web-based dashboard to take daily and hourly incremental backups of your server file and directory. SnapShooter makes it easy to schedule frequent backups for your servers, websites and databases. It also allows you to view and download your backup and restore it when you want by just clicking a button. Continue Read
SnapShooter Compute is built to easily backup managed databases at a variety of service providers Continue Read
Weâre big fans of the phrase âtrust, but verify.â Itâs useful in many situations, including, you guessed it, checking the integrity of your backed up data and your recovery plan. Itâs great to have a backup plan for all your data. Whether it's your WordPress site, your MySQL database or your whole server, making sure that your data is being backed up correctly, on schedule, and completely is critical. Itâs important to trust your service, whether you use SnapShooter or a combination of shell scripts, that your data is getting to where it should be. Another critical, somewhat overlooked part of a disaster backup plan is the recovery part of that plan. As GI Joe would say, just knowing youâre doing it is half the battle. Youâve got to be able to make sure that you can easily, and hopefully somewhat painlessly, recover your data and re-institute it in your production environment. Continue Read
If youâve built a web application, large or small, chances are you are pushing a good amount of data in and out of a database. For many apps, the database either lives on the same server as your code, or on its own machine for performance reasons. If you donât want to babysit a database server and be constantly worried about availability, rollovers, and standby nodes, then a âManaged Database as a Serviceâ setup may be of interest to you. DigitalOcean is the latest company to jump on this trend and in 2020 began offering managed database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL. It can be great for setups of any size and itâs easy to scale up the resources the database has access to instantly. Plus, you leave the mundane tasks of running a high performance database server to the experts while you focus on your code and app. Continue Read