Fun Fact: World Backup Day is March 31st. Chances are, you – or someone you know – has had the unfortunate experience of losing important data. Every day someone’s hard drive bites the dust (somehow, this happens more often to college students right around finals. Weird right?). Save yourself the headache with IDrive Online Backup. […]
Good news for the Linux enthusiasts out there; IDrive now has a way for you to backup your critical data into the cloud! Today, we’d like to introduce the Linux box Backup script from IDrive. To get started backing up your critical data, the first thing you need is an IDrive account. Even a free IDrive […]
As more of our lives move online, into the clouds, encrypted backup and storage of not just our vital data, but our personal photos, files and streams is becoming critical. The responsibility to provide a secure cloud storage and online backup solution is on the shoulders of the developers of the software people use every day. […]
After posing these important five questions to your online backup provider you should have a good picture of how reliable their services are and how safe your data will be. As the old IT saying goes, “A backup is only as good as its restore.” 1. Where is my data being stored? It’s important to […]
We’re making online backup and file sharing easier than ever. With the the latest updates to our Windows, Mac and mobile apps customers can protect and access the files from an unlimited number of computers and mobiles devices with one plan, in one place. See? Easy. Not using IDrive yet? Sign up here. Your first 5GB are free. […]
We often talk about how IDrive out-performs other services by 25-30% in the area of backup/restore speed and we thought to let you in on a few of the reasons why: 1. The IDrive platform is built and maintained by us. Why is this important? Well, there are more online backup “companies” out there than […]
As a part of our push to create as many multi-lingual versions of the application as possible, we have just introduced a French version of IDrive. This is now in addition to Spanish, German and Japanese versions. As the IDrive’s customers span the globe, it is getting more important for us to address our international […]
Here is a direct pick from the recent ComputerWorld article. “After the Sidekick near-disaster, mobile phone users might be wondering if they should ever trust any cloud services to protect their vital data. On the face of it, there are some obvious lessons to be learned from the Sidekick snafu, even as Microsoft Corp. […]
When it comes to Backup, it’s always best to have dual approach… backup all your important files locally, and then backup your most critical files online where you’ll have access to them from anywhere. Then, as time permits, you can backup the rest of your important files online, which does take some time… based on […]
