Comments on: Back Up Your Files with iDrive Online Backup http://www.technobuzz.net/back-up-your-files-with-idrive-online-backup/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:30:46 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Mike Reilly http://www.technobuzz.net/back-up-your-files-with-idrive-online-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-33882 Mike Reilly Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:13:40 +0000 http://www.technobuzz.net/back-up-your-files-with-idrive-online-backup/#comment-33882 My experience with iDrive was far different from the marketing comments on this site. 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. My experience with iDrive was far different from the marketing comments on this site. 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.

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