Originally Posted by
linsj
When CrashPlan quit the home business, I took the business-plan offer for a year. But in the past week, it has slowed my computer so much I've quit backing up and am looking for a new program. I've read reviews and comparisons, and iDrive is exactly what I'm looking for. But the comments beneath the reviews are primarily negative. Does anyone have experience with this program that includes restoring?
Other recommendations? Minimum requirements: synch two computers, maximum of $75/year, doesn't throttle my computer (Win 7, soon to be Win 10), responsive support, uncomplicated interface, keeps data online until I delete it, email notifications of backups, encryption.
I use iDrive for a daily backup of my data from a Mac and a Synology NAS. The main issue is that it takes an age to to the initial upload. I've got about 100GB, and it took a couple of days!!! After that, however, it's worked flawlessly. I've never actually needed to restore anything in anger - but I tried a few partial restores to check everything worked.
iDrive is actually the fallback position... I have my Mac backed up to the NAS on a TimeMachine, and also all the data is on Dropbox.