- #Idrive vs backblaze and ease of restoring full#
- #Idrive vs backblaze and ease of restoring software#
- #Idrive vs backblaze and ease of restoring download#
I wouldn’t restore more than 500GB using download and much less on a slow hotel internet. You can download a forgotten spreadsheet or special photo while travelling. IDrive support has been better than Backblaze, but it did take a month for them to ship our first express backup disks.īoth iDrive and Backblaze make it easy (and free) to restore a few files or data using internet download. So it is not as secure as the IDrive or Backblaze. We are doing our 10TB cloud backup using two 5TB iDrive plans. Ease in restoring the lost data Urging continuity in business To protect the data from being stolen. For restoring old file versions, Backblaze allows you to choose either 30 days, one-year, or.
#Idrive vs backblaze and ease of restoring software#
PCMag - Editor's Choice 7Īfter I’ve successfully used iDrive a couple months, I’ll post an update. Their software is Mac and PC native as opposed to using java. PCMag - Editor's Choice 7IDrive® Backup 90% off. IDrive also makes it easier to share our photos and videos as we can share backed up folders with others (like we do with MS OneDrive, Google Drive or Amazon Photos).Īnd for the first year, iDrive has a fantastic special: 2TB / year for only $6.95! (not including express restores) Then iDrive (like Backblaze used to do, but hasn’t) should keep backing up only new and changed files (should be < 1TB month ☺). Instead of backing up our 9TB at 1.5TB/month for 6 months, we backup to a local disk (actually 2 in our case) and ship it to iDrive. The benefit of iDrive for us now, instead of Backblaze is their free annual express backup. “ Only because our Xfinity is so restrictive is iDrive worth it to us – but we live with the current reality. iDrive “Express Restores will be charged $99.50 per request. Backblaze also won the race when it came to restoring the files, taking just shy of 11 minutes to fully restore them. Performing even better, Backblaze took only 53 minutes to complete the upload. We’ve restored 4TB by paying only about $10 in shipping. When using IDrive, it took one hour and 43 minutes to complete the upload. (The X stands for 1TB not “In”, they don’t come close to doing infinity.)Ī big benefit of BackBlaze is their extremely reasonable disk restore policy. Any savings by using BackBlaze are now wiped out by the extra $50 required monthly by Xfinity. For months, we’ve been uploading 1.5TB/month using BackBlaze. They charge us extra if we use more the 1TB.
To compound matters, our ISP, Comcast/Xfinity now restricts our data usage. Their answer after each backup screw up - delete your 8TB of backups and start yet again! (We did that twice, and the third time ran out of ISP data usage!) Early deletion policy: iDrive and Backblaze: None. API Transactions cost: iDrive & Wasabi: Free. Wasabi: Free up to 1X the total storage in a month.
#Idrive vs backblaze and ease of restoring full#
We’ve had a full complete backup once in the past 8 months. Egress cost and/or free limit: iDrive: Free up to 3X the total storage in a month. However BackBlaze repeatedly screwed up our backups this year now that we’ve grown large due to 4K video and higher resolution Nikon D500 pictures. I still think BackBlaze is a good choice if you only have a few TeraBytes (1,000 GB = 1 TB), say < 3 or 4TB. For years now I have recommended BackBlaze to family and friends, but this year it has failed us and we were forced to look for a different alternative.
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