![]() ![]() ![]() I have emailed the iDrive support team several times, and their response is repeatedly to tell me that that is the way it is designed to work (!!!). However, clicking on that icon does NOTHING. #Idrive for mac users windows#iDrive throws an icon into the Finder windows icon bar with it’s icon and iDriveFinderSync written underneath, just as other sync services like Dropbox and Sync do. – There is one very significant issue that bugs me, not because it affects functionality, but because it suggests the iDrive people might be a bit out of touch. Not sure if that will help compared to iCloud backup. – It is also backing up data from my iPad. I am not using this as iDrive, like other zero-knowledge sync systems I have tested, does NOT sync extended attributes, such as Finder tags, which is crucial for me. – You get a Sync store equal in size to the backup store, but as a separate amount of space which is nice. Presently, my desktop is doing its initial backup of some 2TB of data and my laptop has put its fairly small amount of data into iDrive as well. ![]() – You can add multiple computers to one account and share the backend storage, which is a big advantage for me over BackBlaze. – It appears that you can save versions as far back as you like (subject to a pruning policy which is pretty well delineated on the support pages) subject to total space allowance. – I do like the web interface for restoring, especially its method for browsing back to previous versions. There is an option to set up continuous backup limited to 500MB (!!) / day, which I have enabled, but I cannot tell what if anything that is actually doing. #Idrive for mac users full#– It is not a true continuous backup like BackBlaze supposedly is, but rather it runs once a day for a full backup. – On the good side, it seems to be working well for doing backups on a daily basis, and as far as I can tell (looking at files via the web interface, I have not tried a restore) it looks like all of the data I have asked it to backup. So far, I have found some good, and some bad: I figured I can always cancel in a year if I don’t like it. I received yet another of their promotional emails, this time $1.00 for a 1 year 5TB subscription, so I decided to bite and see how it works out. I wonder if anyone else has played with iDrive? ![]()
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