IDrive's Snapshot feature stores historical versions of files, which can be recovered at any time. Return shipping is free in the United States, but international customers are charged standard shipping rates. This service is free to Personal account holders once a year, with subsequent backup requests costing $59.95. This can reduce the setup time for people that have extraordinarily large amounts of data to back up. IDrive also provides an alternative backup method that allows customers to receive a blank hard drive that they can fill up with data. It allows people to have a physical hard drive shipped to them containing their data to allow them to recover from. This service is designed to speed up the recovery process for people who lose extremely large amounts of data.

Share files and folders from your IDrive with friends and family with added ease.

Restore files from the cloud in a simple and user-friendly manner.

Schedule automatic hourly, daily, or weekly cloud backups with just a few clicks.

One-click backup for your entire machine including OS and settings backups.

The new, simpler, client has a number of benefits:

This makes it ideal for non-techy people who just want to get their backups working with no headaches. The new IDrive Basic Client allows users to set up backups with just a few clicks. IDrive has now released a new 'basic' client for PCs, which allows users to simplify the process of backing up their data even further. This would mitigate the problem and allow you to share your pre-encrypted data via IDrive. One option would be to encrypt the data that you want to share yourself using a local encryption tool and then upload it in an encrypted state to share it via IDrive. This does limit your privacy if you need or want to share data with others via the service. Unfortunately, however, this feature is unavailable using end-to-end encryption. IDrive makes it easy to share files or folders with other users. Setting these up, however, does require familiarity with the Terminal command line interface.

It also offers a 'thin client' for Windows and macOS which allows for remote configuration using a web interface.Ī Linux script package similarly allows automatic uploads from a Linux machine, which can be remotely managed from the IDrive GUI web interface. IDrive offers full apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android devices. IDrive Basic client (see below for more info).IDrive Express (see below for more info).File sharing (but not on e2ee accounts).

5TB of storage space on Personal and Team accounts.Payment is accepted by credit/debit card only. This comes with a whopping 5TB of storage space which is extremely good value for money. The Personal Plan, which is what this review looks at, start at $52.12 USD per year (you can get the first year for only $17.38 with our discount). By comparison, Dropbox offers just 2GB for free, while Google Drive dishes out a generous 15GB of free storage (with the privacy risks associated with using a Google service, of course). To let users get a feel for the service, IDrive provides 5GB of storage for free.

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