Cloud Migrator Transfers Files between Amazon S3, Azure, Rackspace

by Richard on August 29, 2012

CloudBerry Lab today announced the beta version of its new CloudBerry Cloud Migrator service that allows users to transfer files from one cloud storage to another. The service supports data migration between Amazon S3, Windows Azure Blob Storage, Rackspace Cloud Files and FTP servers.

Cloud Migrator service by CloudBerry Lab is a web application that lets users transfer their files across different cloud storage services without installing any additional software. All copy operations executes inside a cloud and managed through the web interface.

The service allows users to copy files between different locations or accounts within one cloud storage provider as well as between different. It’s a perfect solution to painlessly migrate data from one Amazon S3 bucket to another or from Amazon S3 to Azure Blob Storage or Rackspace Cloud Files and vice versa.

Finally, Cloud Migrator supports FTP so it can also be used to easily copy/move files from an FTP server to any of the supported cloud storage accounts with no need to implement complicated scripts.

In the Cloud Migrator future releases, the new low-cost Glacier storage by Amazon AWS will be added to the list of supported cloud storage accounts.

CloudBerry Cloud Migrator is available at http://sync.cloudberrylab.com/

Tagged as: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Storage, CloudBerry Lab, Microsoft Windows, Rackspace

  • Justin Moss

    *A word of warning about Cloudberry Cloud Migrator* for those looking to use the service to migrate content from Amazon S3 to Amazon Glacier. I was enticed by Amazon’s low Glacier prices which would have reduced my monthly storage costs from $30 to $3, for around 250 GB. However, there are a number of ‘gotchas’ which make the Migrator service effectively useless (if migrating from S3 to Glacier):

    1. It’s very costly
    2. It doesn’t sync – it only copies
    3. Copied content is not reconciled (consolidated)

    You have been warned!

    *[See the full post here|http://opinionroad.com/2013/01/12/dont-use-cloudberrys-cloud-migrator-to-amazon-glacier/]*

    • http://www.CloudNewsDaily.com CloudNewsDaily

      Interesting info. It should also be noted that Amazon recently enhanced S3 to add a Lifecycle option to roll files to Glacier to reduce costs, but they still appear in S3 and can be retrieved back to S3.

      This is S3 using Glacier, and you don’t get a separate Glacier account, nor can you access the files using Glacier clients. Only S3 can archive to or retrieve from Glacier using the Lifecycle option. Files are not copied or replicated, which addresses some of your concerns.

      Any client that can set S3 Lifecycle rules to roll to Glacier should be able to manage this feature. FileZoomer is one such client, and this post discusses how Lifecycle/Glacier is handled:

      http://filezoomer.com/2012/12/use-s3-object-life-cycle-to-automatically-migrate-files-to-amazon-glacier-or-delete-files-based-on-date/

      (Disclosure: I am involved in FileZoomer development).

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