To get started with iDrive – which I use on my computers and have hooked up to back up my children’s laptops too – simply go to Your best bet is to sign up for an account through your Web browser. Accidentally deleted your presentation to the big boss? If you have it configured properly, cloud backup software can be doing incremental backups (e.g., just files changed or new since the previous incremental backup) even hourly. Infected by a virus or hit with ransomware? Just grab a clean version off your cloud backup system. Having said that, iDrive is one of many cloud storage options that are a combination of sleek software for your Mac, Windows computer, phone, tablet, etc, and a secure server that archives your data and lets you recover older versions of files at any time. And ya never want to use it on a metered connection if you can help it.

If you have horribly slow Internet connectivity, therefore, you’ll have a really slow connection to your cloud backup system and it’ll be frustrating. It’s just “space” in the cloud, right? Well, it’s really a huge array of physical hard drives in some server farm somewhere on the Internet, of course, and instead of plugging directly into a drive like with your PC it’s a wire that utilizes the Internet itself. The great benefit of cloud storage is that it’s a vague concept so you don’t have to worry about cables, capacity or formatting.

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