On-demand backups are as simple as dragging and dropping your target files into the Dropbox folder, for instance, while the Dropbox Backup tool runs automated backups of your chosen files and folders while you get on with other tasks. The Business plans build on its personal offerings with vast capacities (3GB to unlimited), document signing, tracking, large file transfers (100GB up from 2GB for personal accounts), advanced file sharing, document analytics and more.įor all its power, Dropbox is exceptionally easy to operate. Whatever you need, chances are iDrive has a low cost plan which delivers.ĭropbox is a veteran cloud storage service with simple but easy-to-use backup tools and a wide range of integrations and add-ons. Other plans range from the 5TB IDrive Personal from $4.97 a month, to 50TB offerings from $31.22 a month in year one, to Teams plans giving up to 500 users 1TB each. You can get 100GB for $2.95 a year (yes– per year, not per month), or spend $9.95 a year to get 500GB. Budget users can start with a basic 10GB storage for free.

It’s a long and impressive feature list, but iDrive’s real highlight could be its price. Personal plans can do this once a year for free, business plans get three tries.

Your internet isn’t fast enough to back up or restore hundreds of gigabytes of data? The IDrive Express service allows you to send files to or from iDrive on a USB drive via the mail. Once your data is online, you can access it via iDrive's web interface, sync files with your other devices, and there are even mechanisms for sharing files via email, Facebook and Twitter. But for all its power, we found iDrive's apps very easy to use, and our speed tests revealed backup performance was a good match for Google Drive and the top storage contenders. And with most plans covering multiple devices, you can protect as many of these as you like with a single account.Ī lengthy list of backup options starts with simple file and folder protection, but you can also protect your iPhone's photos, videos, contacts and calendar, maybe add SMS on an Android phone, even create a full disk image for disaster recovery purposes later. Wide platform support ensures you're covered on anything from Windows 7 or Windows Server 2003 up, along with Macs, Android and iOS devices, Linux via assorted scripts, and a range of network-attached storage devices: QNAP, Synology, Netgear, Asustor and more. IDrive is a top-notch cloud backup service which caters for everything from simple photo backups for your mobile, to syncing and sharing files across your network, to protecting SQL, Exchange, SharePoint and many other servers.

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