IDrive Online Backup
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Unreliable
At first it looks like a reliable backup service. Bought a subscription. Loved it at first. Lots of space at very attractive prices. Nice features. But... You can start uploading 200GB, see the progress, see that all goes well, wait for 8 hours and get a notification that your backup succeeded. Only to find out afterwards that many files were actually not uploaded. This has to do with 'incompatible characters', i.e. certain characters in the names of folders and files that prevent proper upload. Which ones? That's up to you to find out. No info on their site about this. Second, they have a so-called Continuous Data Protection. Syncing at regular intervals through the day. Does not work. You can make any setting you want but it does not function. Only the daily backups are started. Then there is a CleanUp feature. For cleaning up the files on the server. All files that are not on your computer, but are on the server, are deleted from the server. Does not work either. You end up with loads of empty (old) folders on the server. With a backup service you must be sure that your files are save in the cloud when disaster strikes. And that you can restore them from there. With iDrive you simply do not know what happens.