3 Responses

1. Mike Reilly

   April 18th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

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   My experience with iDrive was far different. I installed it and nearly broke my mouse hand to uninstall it less than 24 hours later. Total, total crap program. It was slow, buggy, unreliable, kept producing bizarre errors (site not cooperating, my login ID/password not valid even though it was, told me I’d exceeded my 2 Gb quota even though I’d only uploaded 700 Mb, etc.) to the point I didn’t want to deal with it any further. In 24 hours I went from being excited about easy backup to never wanting to deal with the nonsense that is iDrive again.

   It is not easy to use (actually deleting data I’d backed up to their server was impossible; the steps in the help files were nonsensical – you have to use the Restore option – and did not work).

   Backups are NOT lightning fast. To back up 700 Mb of data took over 7 hours – and I don’t believe it was properly backed up.

   This is par for the course, unfortunately. I’ve tried several online backup programs and so far all of them have been complete garbage.

   I’m seriously considering simply running a command-line zip utility to compress my data folder and upload it to an FTP site every night – I know it will actually get there, be recoverable, and not eat up every ounce of RAM on my system.

2. i.nconspicuo.us

   April 18th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

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   Wow… that’s terrible.

   I’ve since migrated to local backups with hard drive prices as low as they are, I just purchased a 1TB drive for $220 and back up just about everything to that.

3. LY

   July 31st, 2008 at 10:50 pm

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   Online backups serve a different purpose than local backups. If your computer were to be physically destroyed, say in a fire, all the data backup hard drive will be gone as well. Online backups help ensure that data integrity in the event of local disasters.