Our top pick for online backup services, iDrive, has introduced a new feature: unlimited cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365 Personal accounts.
This may sound familiar as iDrive previously offered a similar service for Google Workspace and Office 365 business users, covering OneDrive, Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams. The Microsoft 365 Personal plan includes OneDrive and its associated applications like Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Excel. The new Personal plan costs $20 per user per year, maintaining the same price point as last year’s professional offering.
iDrive is highly recommended for cloud backup, providing options for backing up your PC to the cloud with free and paid plans ranging from 5TB ($24.88 annually) to 100TB ($699.65 annually) under the Personal plan. The company’s new backup plan performs three daily backups, encrypting data with AES 256-bit encryption during transfer and storage on iDrive’s servers. In case of accidental file deletion or corruption, iDrive allows for easy recovery within your account or downloading to your device. Additionally, the service offers the ability to search for and recover specific files and folders, along with multiple snapshots of stored files for version recovery.
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Providers like iDrive follow the “rule of three,” advising users to keep multiple copies of their data to ensure redundancy. While you may already have a backup of your Microsoft 365 data on OneDrive, iDrive offers an additional layer of protection to safeguard your stored data for the future.
