Item: IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
Rating: 7
Author: Riva Schwartz

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IDrive to back up our data from our server and from several personal drives as well. It is important to maintain some sort of cloud back-up and this is very economical.

Pros and Cons

It works seamlessly - Set it up once and forget it.
There is a desktop app as well as a website to view your data.

If you need to restore files on a computer that does not have the IDrive app installed - I don't believe it can be done! This should be changed.
If a file is left open, it will not back up. I would like to see that changed.

I started with IDrive because it was offered as a free version for minimal storage. Then they made an offer (first year only) on the paid Pro version and I accepted the offer, set it up, and stayed with it because it was more cost-effective than many solutions and I was comfortable using it.

Support Rating

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.

Key Insights

Do you think IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2's feature set?

Yes

Did IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 again?

Yes

Other Software Used

WordPerfect Office, Apache OpenOffice, LogMeIn Pro

Likelihood to Recommend

This is an economical way to back up less than 1000 GB of data. It can also back-up mapped drives, so you can do the back-up from a personal computer in addition to the server. Restoring tends to be a bit cumbersome, so this should be used as an emergency function, not regularly. Once I tried to add files from the server to another computer but it didn't work because the other computer didn't have the IDrive installed.

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