iDrive is attempting one thing a bit of completely different in cloud backups: Backing up your total Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 storage, for less than $20 per yr per pc.

Confused? Then let’s, er, again up. IDrive is one of our most highly recommended cloud backup options, in a position to again up your PC to the cloud with both a free plan or paid choices that go all the way in which to 20TB. It’s mainly one of many solely good impartial cloud storage/backup suppliers that isn’t a serious company like Google or Microsoft.

Due to be formally introduced Thursday, IDrive will now provide limitless cloud backup for each Google Workspace (Google Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts) and Office 365 (OneDrive, Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams), referred to as Unlimited Cloud to Cloud Backup. What IDrive will do is again up your whole information within the Google or Microsoft cloud over to to IDrive as effectively. And in the event you pay for additional storage in both service, IDrive can accommodate all of these information.

Why do that? It’s an extra layer of safety for many who fear about cloud companies taking place and knowledge being unable to accessed. It sounds a bit of far-fetched — till you keep in mind that Western Digital’s cloud service was down for over a week. That’s why the “rule of three” exists: You ought to have your data stored in three places, simply in case: a neighborhood copy and two backups. That’s what IDrive is providing.

IDrive’s Unlimited Cloud to Cloud Backup backs up knowledge from the opposite clouds 3 times per day. It retains snapshots of earlier variations, permitting you to revive your knowledge from a given time limit — and never simply all of it directly. You can search out and restore particular person information and folders, too. IDrive considers this service to be an add-on, which means that you would be able to connect it to present IDrive plans. (You can even purchase Unlimited Cloud to Cloud Backup as a standalone service.)

IDrive appears to be pitching this as an answer for people, households or small companies, since an indication video confirmed a backup of a Microsoft cloud with about twenty completely different customers. The solely catch, if there may be one, is that IDrive costs the $20 annual charge (or roughly $1.66 per thirty days) per pc for backing up one service, Google Drive or Microsoft Office 365.