Then that’ll download a second program that’s the actual app for iDrive:ĭoesn’t take long at all to get it all installed and ready to go.

This is a pretty typical installer so you’ll likely be able to click through without much hassle:Īs is typical, your first download was for the installer. You’ll see this:Ĭlick on “ Run” and it’ll download the slim 25MB app then launch the installer. That’s accessed by clicking on the blue “ Windows” button.

Now click on the “ Download” link in the middle of the page…Īs you can see, it supports quite a lot of different options, but for this we’re going to just install the full Windows client. After the first year promo pricing it’s $1.33/day. As you can see, 5GB of storage is free, and a personal 2TB (that’s 2000GB) account is $52.12/year (which works out to a paltry $1/week, a cheap price to ensure the long term survival of your data, photos, documents, music, movies, etc). To get started with iDrive – which I use on my computers and have hooked up to back up my children’s laptops too – simply go to Your best bet is to sign up for an account through your Web browser. Accidentally deleted your presentation to the big boss? If you have it configured properly, cloud backup software can be doing incremental backups (e.g., just files changed or new since the previous incremental backup) even hourly. Infected by a virus or hit with ransomware? Just grab a clean version off your cloud backup system. Having said that, iDrive is one of many cloud storage options that are a combination of sleek software for your Mac, Windows computer, phone, tablet, etc, and a secure server that archives your data and lets you recover older versions of files at any time. And ya never want to use it on a metered connection if you can help it. If you have horribly slow Internet connectivity, therefore, you’ll have a really slow connection to your cloud backup system and it’ll be frustrating.

It’s just “space” in the cloud, right? Well, it’s really a huge array of physical hard drives in some server farm somewhere on the Internet, of course, and instead of plugging directly into a drive like with your PC it’s a wire that utilizes the Internet itself. The great benefit of cloud storage is that it’s a vague concept so you don’t have to worry about cables, capacity or formatting.

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