IDrive Online Backup Reviews

The software is a good fit for consumers with the least bit of technical understanding. It is mostly pre-configured, easy to schedule, and understand what it’s doing and when it does it. As for more/ advanced technical/IT users it is a a fantastic alternative to software like Acronis’ home/personal offerings because they offer a whopping 5TB of cloud storage for N number of machines. This amount of storage for the price is unheard of! My only constructive criticism is that the drive (aka c:\), full drive imaging, and server type backups should be an option within the standard backup setup screen and not stand-alone main menu items at the bottom. I have been in IT for 25 years and always focused my on systems and data management.

Simple to use. Very competitively priced. I'm using the service to back up 65,000 pictures sat on my NAS drive. Hopefully won't need to use the restore functionality but confident it will work if I need it. Web access works well as well.

The scripts for Linux machines are really well documented, which I appreciate!

Easy registration and setting up the account. Excellent value, especially considering the first year discount. The GUI and interfaces are modern, but perhaps some features could use popups to explain how to do specific functions. One area that was less clear was the ability to manage all your devices via their Web interface, that you just need the client app on the device to set up what you want backed up. Once that is done, you can just use the web interface to monitor all your devices that are being backup. Otherwise, supercool now that I know how to find everything in one place.

Easy to sign up, install, and configure. Very affordable and appreciate their support of nonprofits. Once configured, the auto backup does its job. The backup time could be improved, but given the price point it’s great for our needs.

Easy to setup and use, initial backups were relatively quick (but still plan on hours). Controls for customizing and modifying are simple and straightforward.

Easy backup. Fast,secure and very reliable.

Since I bought my new 4k camera I got plenty of data to store. I was looking for a relatively cheap but reliable option. It's my pleasure to say that iDrive functionality exceeds my expectations. It has all basics I need and some more features I didn't think about but I find useful. The only drawback and the reason it's only 4 stars is the lack of a solution for a minor problem I reported. From my experience, the adjustable bandwidth threshold doesn't work correctly. I was informed the problem was passed to their back-end technical team and no reply so far. But this is not a big deal. Other questions I asked the support just after I bought the service were answered very fast and in a professional way. Since I bought my new 4k camera I got plenty of data to store. I was looking for a relatively cheap but reliable option. It's my pleasure to say that iDrive functionality exceeds my expectations. It has all basics I need and some more features I didn't think about but I find useful. The only drawback and the reason it's only 4 stars is the lack of a solution for a minor problem I reported. From my experience, the adjustable bandwidth threshold doesn't work correctly. I was informed the problem was passed to their back-end technical team and no reply so far. But this is not a big deal. Other questions I asked the support just after I bought the service were answered very fast and in a professional way.

I've been using IDrive to back up my NAS in a secure and reliable way and on an ongoing basis. IDrive is a cheap, reliable and secure way of doing so - I absolutely love it! I would recommend IDrive over any other backup solution for personal- and small/medium businesses.

The price is fair for domestic back-up of documents, photos and videos. This is really important to a lot of people. It helps me to recommend this company to friends and family. Set up was easy, back-ups easy and the best part is that everything from multiple devices is all in one place and can be accessed and downloaded easily and apparently to different destinations (although I have yet to try this). I have used four cloud back-up services prior to trying IDrive and none were as easy to use or came with such a sensible limit or allowed network and external drives.

I just started using iDrive. The backup service is very smooth. Love it!

Easy to setup. Easy to use. I like iDrive better than the other services I had used.

Great service and feeling that computer files are safely backed-up.

They are quite economical when it comes to space/price ratio. I can easily backup my complete storage in their tear for a much affordable price. BUT, a couple of issues that they could improve on: 1. the desktop app is outdated and buggy. i have a 500mbps connection. at 100% bandwidth, it utilizes full bandwith. if I set throttle value to 99%, it drops down to 10mbps. have tried different values, but it is 10mbps of whatever value under 100 i select. 2. payments are always made in USD. for european customers, they could have an EUR payment. not a dealbreaker though, but my credit card company blocked payments twice thinking that it was some scam. 3. web interface seems outdated.

good price for the space

Transitioning to iDrive from a different offsite backup company was a breeze. I particularly liked the Synology app which made backing up our primary group storage as easy as backing up my desktop computer. I'd give them 5 stars, but I haven't tried to reload files from the backup --- let's hope I never have to!!!

Just started the service last week, so far very satisfied with it.

Was able to reach a "real person" without having to wait forever when inquiring about starting a subscription. Got a quick accurate response - very rare these days !!

It is very cheap for me to save the data that I need to keep my pictures and movies from traveling.

I'm new to IDrive but from my experience thus far, it is a very good password manager. I had researched password managers and found that IDrive came highly recommended. Since I had never used a password manager before, this has been a relatively new and different experience. So far, my only suggestion would be that IDrive put detailed instructions available to IDrive customers, such as a tutorial, on a customer's IDrive that would help them to do all the things available in IDrive: i.e. How to add another account or how to set up another device etc. Good pricing when I compared IDrive to my current backup plan which I intend to discontinue once I have everything uploaded to the IDrive site.