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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AIDrive protects PCs, Macs, mobile devices, Servers, Cloud Applications Data (SAAS) including Office 365, and Google Workspace, and provides S3 compatible Object Storage with IDrive e2. IDrive offers different plans for cloud backup for devices: - IDrive Personal - IDrive Core - IDrive Team - IDrive Small Business - IDrive Enterprise - IDrive360 EndPoint IDrive provides Cloud Applications data (SAAS) Backup: - Microsoft Office 365 Backup - Google…

    $59.50

    per year One user, unlimited computers 5TB storage

    Veeam Backup for AWS

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AVeeam® delivers native, automated AWS backup and disaster recovery to protect and manage Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon EFS and Amazon VPC data. Veeam states it is built with simplicity, scalability, savings and security in mind, so users can eliminate the risk of data loss for AWS services.

    $40

    per year instance

    Pricing
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2Veeam Backup for AWS
    Editions & Modules
    IDrive Cloud to Cloud Backup
    $20
    per year
    IDrive 360 EndPoint
    $29.50
    per year
    IDrive e2
    $49.50
    per year
    IDrive Core
    $79.50
    per year
    Personal
    $99.50
    per year
    IDrive Team
    $99.50
    per year
    IDrive Business
    $99.50
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2Veeam Backup for AWS
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsIDrive regularly offers first year discounts for all plans and offers a full-featured 30-day free trial for IDrive 360 Endpoint—
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2Veeam Backup for AWS
    Considered Both Products
    IDrive
    No answer on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Chose Veeam Backup for AWS
    The support is more faster and the documentations are very clearly. also the management and connection with AWS is much easiest.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    91 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    112 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    88 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    102 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    88 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    114 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    84 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    86 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    97 Answers
    Features
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2Veeam Backup for AWS
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    9.5
    93 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    -
    Ratings
    Versioning9.768 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video files9.471 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files9.466 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document collaboration10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control9.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    File search9.378 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync9.384 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Security & Administration
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    8.9
    88 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    -
    Ratings
    User and role management9.371 Ratings00 Ratings
    File organization8.184 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device management9.385 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Platform
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    9.0
    93 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    -
    Ratings
    Performance8.290 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reliability9.488 Ratings00 Ratings
    Storage Reports9.481 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    -
    Ratings
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    8.3
    79 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings8.977 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings8.169 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.276 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings8.074 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings8.571 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings8.371 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings8.571 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings8.673 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings8.671 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings8.170 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings7.870 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    -
    Ratings
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    8.2
    82 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Continuous data protection00 Ratings8.977 Ratings
    Replication00 Ratings9.075 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings8.975 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings7.062 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings7.173 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings7.938 Ratings
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2Veeam Backup for AWS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (97 ratings)
    8.9
    (115 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.2
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (23 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (106 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.9
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2Veeam Backup for AWS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IDrive
    It scales well from the individual to corporate environments with many different plans to suit your needs and budget. For backing up servers such as Exchange or SQL I've used their sister product iBackup, which is also excellent and we have no problems with, so maybe they should merge the two products into one which would make it a better overall proposition. It also seems to handle backing up mapped drives as well, which is what we used for a while before getting the on server version. That being said it can use up quite a bit of bandwidth so make sure you schedule at night when noone is working. However it does only backup changed files which is great.
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    Veeam Software
    I like the idea of using this product for backups and cold storage. This allows for long retention times and a very low cost. The ability to quickly restore and the efficiency of all the products involved. I haven't come across scenarios where it isn't appropriate. I don't have a lot of experience so for me, it works well in my cases.
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    Pros
    IDrive
    • I'm using it on MAC, the app works very well in the background
    • Logging activities is something I really like, because I can check whether the backup was successful or not.
    • I really like the option of being able to select external drivers and back up only specific folders or files.
    • The application itself is very easy to use, even though it doesn't have a version in my language (pt-br), I had no trouble setting it up and I'm using it without any problems.
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    Veeam Software
    • Veeam Backup for AWS provides a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution for AWS workloads.
    • It's very easily integrated with the AWS cloud.
    • The Simple and intuitive user interface of Veeam Backup for AWS makes it easy to set up and manage backups for AWS instances.
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    Cons
    IDrive
    • DropBox-protected folders were not initially backed up as IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 did not follow the symbolic links created
    • I experienced some UX confusion in adding new folders to backup; it's a different interface than setting up exclusions, and they should follow the same workflow and page buttons
    • After a reboot, it appears like a full disk scan is performed which can take quite a long time on a disk which has many files and lots of space
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    Veeam Software
    • We have never managed to use Veeam for Azure or GCP. It works well with AWS.
    • A client needed a multi-cloud DR solution management but we had a security issue and could find a solution from Veeam Backup for AWS.
    • Usually, you need a dedicated resource to monitor when the number of workloads is high. That adds to the cost.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IDrive
    It does everything that it needs to to create an effecitve Three level backup to the cloud of all your important data, its reliable, dependable and peformant in its use cases. It overcomes the need to store offsite physical media such as Tape or disk storage. And its cost and level of reporting can be tailored to fit the use case of your business.
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    Veeam Software
    We have been using Veeam Backup for AWS for our cloud hosted solutions for the last several years and will continue to do so. The ease of use and available support staff make the learning curve for use nearly flat in our case and having Veeam Backup for on-premise workloads makes the decision easy.
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    Usability
    IDrive
    While both the desktop and mobile apps are pretty straightforward and not complicated to navigate with features and settings fairly easy to understand and execute with clear enough descriptions they could use a refresh to be a but more intuitive and improvements made so they are less glitchy. Also backup speeds could use some improvement
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    Veeam Software
    The UI and the integration is good with the product. so far
    has not encountered any major challenges while using the UI. of course, this is
    user perspective. Few users suggested some different view that it should be
    change father should have some different options but overall the feedback about
    UI is positive and no major issues encountered by using the UI or forsake of
    this usability.
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    Reliability and Availability
    IDrive
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Veeam Backup has never failed me, whenever we have needed to recover data it has worked flawlessly. It is highly available and I do not know of of a situation where our business has needed Veeam Backup fo AWS and has not been able to access or use it in some way.
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    Performance
    IDrive
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We have not really noticed much difference and only notice it when doing work afterhours with our veeam being backed up. However, this is not the case as we do not do this often and hence we don't really have any real challenges for performance issues. Overall, we find that the performance is pretty good
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    Support Rating
    IDrive
    I have not had to use their tech support. I did call once but luckily figured out what to do while I was on hold so I disconnected. If I really needed them it would have been a very long hold time I suppose.
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    Veeam Software
    One of the best and leading backup solution with central management for all Virtual Servers, Physical servers and Application level backup. Migrated from distributed backup solution running at each site to central VEEAM solution which has reduced overhead of backup administrator and improves the backup performance. Veeam team is very supportive in solution design, taken care of all our requirements and provided the cost effective solution.
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    In-Person Training
    IDrive
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We had only one due to the pandemic, but we remember really enjoying the help. Someone came to our site and walked us through the process and we had lots of time to ask questions and got really helpful solutions and tips and tricks to make sure that staff would understand and learn how to use it
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    Online Training
    IDrive
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    The training provided online was good. The training was restrictive to users but was content was good and informative. The information provided was relevent and flow was maintained well. The Question and answers were good and supported well. Need to have more material provided with the training and will support users to adopt train the trainer approach.
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    Implementation Rating
    IDrive
    Did not participate in the implementation.
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    Veeam Software
    We were pretty happy with our implementation as it was simple to deploy and we followed the technical guide online with out much technical assistance from vendor support. We had also tested and streamlined a process based on our own documentation for our own company which was simple to follow overall for deploying into AWS for future instances
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    Alternatives Considered
    IDrive
    I was a Backblaze user for 5 years because they had a very cost effective plan for my storage needs. However, they were very poor at backing up external devices quickly, and made it a pain in the butt to keep the backups active due to their 30 days connectivity policy.
    Dropbox is a great fit for cloud backup when you need to access the backup files in the cloud frequently.
    IDrive is the best solution out there for true backup of devices in case they are damaged or lost.
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    Veeam Software
    I had looked at N2WS Backup & Recovery backup and disaster recovery solution for AWS environments. But while it provides similar backup and recovery capabilities as Veeam Backup for AWS, it lacks some of the advanced features such as instant VM recovery, file-level recovery, and integration with Veeam Backup & Replication.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    IDrive
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Overall, we pretty happy with the way it is contracted and the pricing structure. However, as stated we got it on promotion so we wont know until what it is after the 3 years but at this stage we are pretty happy with the product and the pricing from the commercial aspect
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    Scalability
    IDrive
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We have using this solution since 2020. In that moment we had four Host Linux and today we have forty vm Linux and Windows. The solution work fine as with few vm as multiples vm. The backup operators lovely this feacture, because keep simple his duties. Finally, we use the same solution for AWS, Azure or onpremise. This is great characteristic for skill transfer over backup team!
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    Professional Services
    IDrive
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Generally satisfied
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    Return on Investment
    IDrive
    • For individual users such as my case, the savings with the Personal plan are important compared to alternatives like ElephantDrive. For 5TB ElephantDrive costs $600/yr in the comparable Family plan, whereas IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 costs only $99.50/yr.
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    Veeam Software
    • The only thing is that you have to make sure you understand your AWS costs if your retention periods are not kept under control.
    • ROI is hard to prove until the moment you need to restore your workload.
    • Time-saving is something that comes to mind. Before Veeam, we used to spend/waste a lot of time verifying and testing our backup and restore. Veeam makes it easy with its SureBackup technology.
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    ScreenShots

    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 Screenshots

    Screenshot of IDrive WindowsScreenshot of IDrive WebScreenshot of IDrive Server BackupScreenshot of IDrive 360

    Veeam Backup for AWS Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview page detailing high-level information like alarms, protected instances, policies, and session information.Screenshot of Policies page detailing available policies, status and sessions log.Screenshot of Estimated monthly costs in policy wizard for snapshots, replicas, backups, traffic and transactions for machines in a policy.Screenshot of File Level Recovery, where individual files and folders can be searched and browsed for granular recovery.