


We removed that review from the story, but we do provide some details about CrashPlan’s surviving small-business product below. I also tested a fifth product, Code42’s CrashPlan for Home, but after the review was done and before publication, Code42 announced that it is phasing out CrashPlan for Home and will stop selling that product as of Oct. It’s good protection at a good price, with no hardware required, and has the ability to share saved files wherever you go.”įor this evaluation, I looked at products from four top vendors in the online backup world, according to Goodwin: Mozy, Carbonite, Acronis and IDrive.

Phil Goodwin, research director of IDC’s Storage Systems and Software group, says, “Many small business owners use consumer backup services to protect their company’s data. Pros: support for network maped drivesĬons: no list of files panding for backup.I’m not alone in recognizing the benefits of online backup. I like the way it's done in Carbonite using orange/green dots, but a simple list will be good too. The feature I mostly miss is a list of files panding for backup. In the idrive explore or th WEB interface the hirarcy is OK.

it's the same for the backup and resore panes of the idrive clasic. the same for the 'my pictures' and 'my music folders. when I look in this folder in the idrive clasic I can't see the folder used to be 'my documents', I can only see the other acounts folders. I manage few user acounts on the same machine and keep the 'my documents' folders of all acounts in one 'documents' folder. trying to refresh caused the machine to crash several times. Idrive explorer does not calculate correctly the used space. an option to backup network drives without the need to map them will be better though.īut I also find idrive buggy and miss some importent features. After testing few online services I decided to go with idrive, mostly because it's support for maped network drives.
