Overview
IDrive is a user-friendly, secure, and reliable application that performs automated online backup of your files and folders.
Note: You must first sign up to use iDrive.
The application safeguards your critical data in case of a system crash. The graphical interface is coupled with powerful scheduling and logging features.
- Incremental backups – only modified portions of files are backed up, thereby conserving bandwidth
- Data compression during transmission for quick backups
- Enhanced security with 128-bit SSL encryption on data transfers
- Network or mapped-drive backup support
- Automatic backup of critical data including the Desktop, Downloads, Documents, Music, Movies, and Pictures folders
- Locate files and folders backed up to your account and restore the same to your Mac desktop
- Snapshots allow you to retain changed data history over a period of time
- Provision to regulate the Internet bandwidth usage with the Bandwidth Throttle feature more
- Provision to perform interactive backups/restores or to schedule backups for a future date and time
- ‘Automatic Power off’ option after a scheduled backup – the machine shuts down automatically once data is backed up
