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Backup without the hassle
October 25, 2023

Backup without the hassle

Adam Edwards | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

IDrive Personal

Overall Satisfaction with IDrive

We use IDrive for all our offsite backup needs, whether backing up or NAS or individual workstations. It works across network drives and has local application support for Synology and other NAS Operating systems which has been very beneficial from a workflow and efficiency process as we moved our data to a NAS based infrastructure. Instant email updates on scheduled tasks and faultless reliability along with excellent value for money. This provides us with an easily accessible offsite store of our important data, in the case of an emergency or even simple accidental deletes by employees it gives us peace of mind. It means even if all of our infrastructure fails on site, or is stolen or damaged, we still have a copy of our data safe in the cloud.
  • Local backups
  • NAS applications
  • Value for money
  • Reliability
  • Switching from the old platform to the new one has always been an issue, not a problem for new users though I believe.
  • Having to upgrade to a higher tier to get new special offer upgrade deals
  • The interface can be a bit slow sometimes on lower powered NAS devices I've found.
  • If there are two scheduled backups of the same data they will run concurrently and slow each other down in my opinion.
  • It's backup, ROI is intangible until you need the data that has been lost
  • In terms of financial impact, its one of those below the line costs that doesn't show a benefit, until the CFO needs that spreadsheet they deleted by mistake 6 weeks ago
  • Its an easy way to get into the Backup Rule of Three (look it up) for small and medium sized businesses
Different use cases, iBackup I've used for mainly corporate Microsoft application servers, IDrive for personal workstations, mobiles, NAS etc
Google Drive and OneDrive are client based backup with limited free storage and don't compare changed files. They are more end user based whereas IDrive is a big step up into the corporate and small business service arena.

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

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.

IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 Feature Ratings

File Sharing & Management
10.0
Versioning
10
Video files
10
Audio files
10
File search
10
Device sync
10
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
9.0
User and role management
10
File organization
9
Device management
8
Cloud Storage Platform
9.7
Performance
10
Reliability
10
Storage Reports
9

Using IDrive

1 - IT and technology Security Business Intelligence Disaster Recovery
1 - Basic knowledge of files and backup and the ability to use a web interface, also will need to know what data is important and what departements expect of their data retention
  • Offsite storage
  • Backup of important data
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Running it directly on the NAS (Synology)
  • Being able to backup over mapped network drives
  • Virtual machine backups
  • Expanded storage as we grow
  • Mobile device backups
  • Cloud application backup (365 GDrive)
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.

Evaluating IDrive and Competitors

  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
The fact it was in the cloud. Traditionally if you wanted a third layer of backup you would store your tapes or disks offsite, usually by paying an expensive third party, and because the media was magnetic based, there was a limited shelf life, which meant a complicated process of rotating media and retiring it when it got too old.
There are many more providers of similar products in the marketplace now, every time our subscription comes up for renewal we check the competition and so far it hasn't tempted us, but if I had to do it again we would be spoilt for choice with alternatives, so would be more thorough looking at the options.