Backup system needs to make restoring data very easy.If I’m sending data into the cloud, it should be adequately protected. But if something were to happen at the house, or the disk were damaged or destroyed, that wouldn’t help much. Already, much of our data at home is stored on a large external disk. Backup system needs to store data offsite.Backup system needs to handle multiple machines.Kelly, not a technical as I am when it comes to computers, should be able to easily restore her data if she needed to. I shouldn’t have to spend much time messing with settings. My set of requirements looked something like this: Being an application developer by day, and working in a large company, I had some notion of what worked and what didn’t, what people tended to complain about and what they liked. After the loss, I went about looking for the best possible solution for backing up data. I was backing up to an external disk, but it wasn’t a completely automated backup and I did lose some data that I wasn’t able to recreate, most importantly some photos from a trip to Europe. ![]() My biggest loss came a month or two before I started using IDrive. ![]() We have all heard stories–if not experienced for ourselves–the frustration, if not pain, of losing data. Like most backup systems, IDrive typically will do a full backup of your computer (or the files that you select) and then subsequent backups are incremental, backing up only those files that have changed. It does so in a secure fashion, and your files are accessible to you from anywhere you have Internet access. That is, it backs up your data, whether you are on a Macintosh or Windows computer, to the Internet. IDrive is a complete solution, one that makes restoring data as easy as backing it up. ![]() It is quite another to be able to quickly and easily restore that data. It is one thing to make sure the data on your computer is backed up. ![]() When people talk about backups, they are usually only talking about half of a solution. But it is worth blogging about because it is, in my mind, the perfect solution for data backups*. I have been using IDrive since the fall of 2009 as a means for securely backing up all of my data, and while I’ve posted about it before, I’ve never really done so in detail.
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