IDrive Online Backup
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I'm not a fan!!!
I'm not a fan! In the past couple weeks I've tried IDrive as my data backup solution. The plan was to backup critical data from two laptops to my local 3TB NAS device, and then backup the NAS device to IDrive online. On the 1st laptop, I identified 43.5GB of data to be backed up to my local mapped NAS drive. After running for 2 days, the backup had not reached 30% complete. When I chatted with support about this, they indicated that 1) encryption was a factor, and 2) if I used the IDrive Express external drive that I'd just received, the local backup would be markedly faster. So, I canceled the NAS backup and started the exact same backup to the USB 3.1 attached Express Drive. After 4 days running, it had not yet reached 50% complete. Since that's roughly 4 days for 21.27GB, I couldn't consider IDrive as an acceptable backup solution (local or online). As I was clearing the data from the Express Drive, I saw that the IDriveLocal folder, created by the backup job, was at a total of 521GB and 8,712,815 files. So, that means that approximately 21.75GB, had become almost 24x its original size with encryption added. Sorry, that doesn't work for me.