There are multiple online backup services out there, some better than others. However, there are times when both products may seem so neck-to-neck that it's hard to pinpoint which one to use. Backblaze and IDrive are one example of this. While both options are great, each one has its own strengths and weaknesses, and only one of the options will meet your needs best. Both solutions offer a user-friendly interface and automatic backups that run in the background. Still, there are differences when it comes to supported devices, the amount of available data space, and pricing strategy. Read More…
Online Backup Services Articles
Interview with CloudBerry Lab
CloudBerry Lab is the company behind CloudBerry Backup, an online backup solution that has a different take on how cloud backups should work. CloudBerry Backup creates a backup of your device, ensures it’s fit to be restored using a backup consistency check, and lets you store it with a cloud storage solution of your choice through a secure connection. Currently only Windows computers work with the software, but the team is working on finalizing their Mac OSX client so you’ll be able to backup those devices using CloudBerry Backup as well. Later this year mobile applications will be released as well, and soon we will also get to use a new full disk image feature. Big updates for CloudBerry Backup are upon us, so we went out to interview the company’s Marketing Director to learn more about these novelties. Read More…
Interview with ElephantDrive
A large service that never forgets and works for peanuts – it’s no coincidence that ElephantDrive is named after one of the largest mammals on our planet. ElephantDrive helps you back up and sync your data across multiple devices all from one easy to handle and understand service, with lots of switches and more advanced settings should you want to take more control over your mammal. Network Attached Storage suppliers including Netgear, WD and D-Link have ElephantDrive pre-installed and ready for usage on their NAS products, perhaps the best proof that this service is the absolute king of the cloud backup and syncing jungle.
Elephants are confident creatures, and so is ElephantDrive about its service (and fish tacos!). That is why it offers free trials for all of its plans as well as a forever-free 2GB plan. The company’s team is full of plans for 2015, with major new updates including the addition of Geo Selection to give users the choice between different secure data storage locations across the globe. Ben Kiblinger and Joti Kang of the ElephantDrive sat down for an interview with us on syncing and backing up with ElephantDrive, more on their upcoming new features and their profound love for fish tacos. Read More…
Interview with Acronis
Acronis True Image is the online backup solution by German-based software specialist Acronis for both business and personal users running a PC or Mac in a multi-platform environment. The product’s key feature and advantage is where it got its name – Acronis True Image takes a full image of your computer’s system and allows you to fully restore both your data and system’s settings if needed. Furthermore, the system image is built up in such a way that it can be restored on any other PC or Mac from either the locally or online stored backup. Read More…
Interview with IDrive
IDrive is a very complete online backup provider offering various solutions that work for different types of users. Whether you’re a home user looking to backup family pictures, music and other personal data, or a business user looking to store either important business data or full server backups – IDrive has just the plan for you. The company shines with its IDrive Express service that lets you transfer your data onto a 3TB physical hard drive that IDrive will then upload to your secured cloud backup space, so you don’t have to spend days and lots of bandwidth on your initial backup. This feature, along with the many backup features and great customer support, is just one of the reasons we had a great experience with this backup service when reviewing it.
Keen to learn more about this company, we invited IDrive’s Shane Bingham for an interview. He proudly tells us more about the cross-platform capabilities of IDrive that especially shine on mobile devices, upcoming releases related to IDrive Express and the company’s latest DataCenter Edition feature. Read More…
Interview with CrashPlan
“Data for life” is the slogan that shines on Code42’s homepage, the company behind CrashPlan. With its unique and much appraised three destination backup concept, Code42 doesn’t just want to help you take online backups – it really assists in securing your data for life. Company names like Zynga, P&G, and Intuit are proudly listed as business customers relying on CrashPlan for their data backups, and this very same reliable service is affordably available for home users and small businesses. This also makes that Code42 is very careful in protecting your data and making its upcoming new version of CrashPlan fully waterproof. All of this convinced us to rank CrashPlan as the number two online backup service here on Best Reviews.
In this interview, communications manager Adam Best walks us through CrashPlan and its set of features, upcoming novelties from Code42 and reveals something about the super hero activity going on within the company. Read More…
Interview with OpenDrive
OpenDrive is a longstanding online backup provider that provides you with the infrastructure and tools you need to efficiently enjoy access to a cloud workplace. You can store, backup and sync files with OpenDrive giving you the choice which data you want to have continuously synced in the cloud and available for sharing with co-workers, family or other users. With its strong set of business features, OpenDrive is also serving home users with a straightforward all-inclusive plan.
The completeness of this backup service is one of the reasons we rated the backup functionalities of this service with four stars, as is the storage of up to 99 file versions. OpenDrive recently unleashed WebDAV support as a new feature and is working on a slew of other neat new features. Reasons enough for us to interview the company’s support center manager Christina about the company and its service. Read More…