Best Online Cloud Backup | Backblaze vs iDrive vs Carbonite vs Crashplan

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Reviewing the best online cloud backup for 2021, in this video - I take a look over the most popular services from Backblaze, iDrive, Carbonite and Crashplan.
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@douglester 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the helpful and straightforward comparison, Pete. I just signed up for Backblaze using your link, and also subscribed to your channel. You made the choice of a backup solution simple.

@beatkultr 3 жыл бұрын

Kool video. I recently signed up for Crashplan and while I'm backing up my data, I decided to see if I really picked the right solution. I'm hearing more about Backblaze and willing to test out. I can care less about a drive being sent to me althought it's still a great option to have because I may need it in the future. I appreciate you taking the time to cover this topic.

@soaringtheclouds 3 жыл бұрын

Your content is so amazing! Thank you for sharing your expertise. I was shocked to see this video has under 1,000 views-- I easily expected tens of thousands! For the last year, I had been using Google One with Google Backup and Sync as my cloud backup for the content currently on my laptop (I am a musician and music producer). I was going to expand the GB, but after some research and the help of your video I will turn to either Backblaze or iDrive, where I can also backup my HDs.

@zimshah Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the great comparisons. I am currently using Carbonite, but am about to add a NAS to my network, and needed to learn about backing up the NAS. You provided a perfect amount of information.

@danielupton1848 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent Review, certainly cleared up a few grey areas i was questioning with what i currently use Backblaze & Onedrive = Subscribed brah

@bobeotm2 2 жыл бұрын

This is such a great summary of the major services. I felt so lost trying to find a real backup solution, and I now feel pretty confident in my choices!

@flookoco2008 3 жыл бұрын

Great video Pete, great timing too, I’m just looking to add an online backup solution.

@MichaelMagdato 3 жыл бұрын

Great video Pete, do you think you can do a video showing how to restore with BackBlaze and your experience on the restoration process? I think it would be very informative and I don't see any videos showing in real life how its done and how BackBlaze does it. Thanks and keep up the great content!

@raedjibrail5565 3 жыл бұрын

Just found your channel and really pleased I did. This and your 'Best Cloud Storage 2021', video really helped clarify a few things for me. Plus, the summary really helped me understand what I need to do. Only thing I would say, you're a fast talker and it's hard to keep up - even for a fellow brit! Just a personal observation, otherwise really good. Now subscribed and will probably use your BackBlaze link. Thank you.

@smadarbar 2 жыл бұрын

Hi @Raed, That's what so great about youtube: when there's too much talking, I speed it up, & when I need to understand & assimilate, I slow it down, sometimes rewinding to see&listen again

@wdashwor 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent info. Thank you! I went with Backblaze, and am pretty pleased with it. Your evaluation of it is spot-on, pro and con.

@rajdeepbhattacharjee2213 3 жыл бұрын

You put quality detailed reviews. You will surely reach millions of subscriber soon

@dominic_james 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this video!! also I am the video's 1000th Like Woot Woot

@cyngabj8327 Жыл бұрын

I am so glad that I found your video, Pete! Great info here!

@PeteMatheson Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad it was useful!

@rachaelamberart 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this!! Subscribed & liked. A near-finished client project file corrupted yesterday and now I'm reconsidering my strategy. I thought I was good with a backup to 2 external hard drives to Time Machine, on 2 computers + icloud... but I guess not. Perhaps 1 messed it up, can't tell where. So now I'm paranoid and I'm debating between adding or replacing with Backblaze or iDrive. Would these be a replacement for iCloud or could use in tandem with it? And for the deduplication feature... can that be turned off in Backblaze? I'm not sure if it would be better to actually have duplicate variant files because perhaps the older version would be uncorrupted even if its a few steps behind in terms of completion? Thoughts/advice?

@jonagreyphoto 3 жыл бұрын

Yes dude, awesome video! I've been a Backblaze user for 3 yrs now as a videographer/photographer. And not too many guys in our industry know the benefits of it or it cops a lot of hate. I've got 12TB of photos/videos so my workflow is: Shoot > SD cards > 2TB SSD (working drive) > 4TB HDs (1st Backup) > ☁️ Backblaze (archive) on the 'Forever' version history so I can plug/unplug multiple HDs with no backup expiry. I could do always with another layer for redundancy though!

@devineimageworks 2 жыл бұрын

how much are you paying for backblaze? i saw someone advertising NAS backup for synology for something like $100/ year but I went to check it out and it was something like $750. I have about 15tb of photos, etc. that I want to get backed up as well.

@loonsailor 2 жыл бұрын

I just loaded iDrive and did my initial backup of ~1.5TB. My unify router tells me that it was uploading at 70MB, or >500Mb. It did take longer than that would imply - about 5 hours for the 1.5TB - so maybe there was some overhead or something else hogging some of the bandwidth, but still it seems much more than acceptable. I'm on an old 2013 MacPro (MacOS 11.6) hardwired to ubiquiti UDM-Pro, 1G fiber. BTW, I chose iDrive because we have several computers in the house, including a linux box and a NAS, and iDrive is MUCH cheaper than BackBlaze which would require a separate plan for each of those (and wouldn't do the linux box?).

@doziermuzic 2 ай бұрын

Thank you this was helpful to point me in the right direction.

@mortimer9610 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing! Thank you so much!

@pieter2627 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for sticking to the pure backup definition and not including, what I refer to as, syncing solutions.

@itaylorm 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the details on Carbonite, killed it for me immediately. The details on the others are wonderfully hitting the issues I. care about. One issue with crash plan that was not mentioned. Requires Chrome to be running that may be an issue for some

@BenReese 7 ай бұрын

Great conclusion! Thanks for putting in the work to test them all. I've been using Crashplan for years, but would agree that their upload is very slow! On Linux, at least, their client is Java based and uses a ton of RAM. However, they do support Linux which means it will run in Docker on my NAS. They don't support it officially, but it runs alright - other than the slow upload. At the price with Linux (NAS) support, it's hard to beat. Only thing I might do different in the future is setup a low-power Windows machine that I can mirror my NAS to, then backup that to Backblaze 🤔

@art847proudtax 3 жыл бұрын

I have a serious problem using Backblaze downloader, because it freezes and gets stuck for every restore larger than 2GB. Downloading from the browser fails almost everytime. Has anyone found a solution for this issue?

@bufordmaddogtannen 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. "Glad" to see the outsourced iDrive chat drone could not grasp the issue of the upload speed being throttled...

@MrCole0423 Жыл бұрын

Great review! Signed up for Backblaze using your link.

@lfisher8154 2 жыл бұрын

Great info. Will any of these backup Time Machine files or an external disk that includes Time Machine files?

@alexthelion335 Жыл бұрын

I'm currently looking into backup solutions, so this was very helpful for me!

@PeteMatheson Жыл бұрын

Great to hear! Thanks 👍🏼

@AniketNBorhade 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video

@Walter_Kircher 2 жыл бұрын

regarding the speed of Backblaze... did you choose EU or US as server place? Thanks!

@thenamelessone123 2 жыл бұрын

My iDrive upload speeds were terrible too and it's not a location issue. Thinking about Backblaze now

@billligon4005 Жыл бұрын

No one explains ‘exactly’ how to use the software. My Idrive has been failing to backup since I installed it a few days ago. And I have no idea why?? I started looking into cloud storage because I’m running out of storage on my PC. Do you recommend upgrading my PC storage??

@VSLComputers 2 жыл бұрын

Pete... you said that iDrive doesn't let you know what you are backing up... does Backblaze (didn't hear you say anything)?

@scottkiwiz3841 2 жыл бұрын

Great video I have been with backblaze for two years BUT im leaving them because when my system did crash, what you can "restore" is very limited, they block endless file types and all system files. exception list keeps growing and you cant change it.. its not a true system backup.

@patrickmcguire4307 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Pete I love the small process UL & DL speed monitor you showed several times. What's its name ?

@rafajrichard 3 жыл бұрын

iStat menus

@alexwells6876 2 жыл бұрын

I'm looking for a cloud backup service and i don't understand why EVERYTHING is in US dollars, is there nothing from the UK?

@JussiTuukkanen 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much

@babbjos 2 жыл бұрын

I have had a terrible experience with Idrive. I cant log into my account on my home network only from my phone and no one is responding to my support ticket.

@markbulman 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, like the style you've adopted, witty but still informative. Am now thinking of one of these for my m1 mbp, however, do you know if any of them will backup my one drive and google drive data that is synced through finder as I use these, incl. Shared Drives for business (which also appear in my finder window through google)?

@markbulman 2 жыл бұрын

It's ok, i'll answer - turns out that these backup solutions won't work for Google Drive - My Drive & Shared Drives, unless I mirror all files down to my hard drive. Have now looked at Cloud to Cloud storage solutions, however, they are very enterprise driven, so though cheap per user, have minimum amount of users, so very expensive for a tiny business like mine.

@markbulman 2 жыл бұрын

If I backup everything to my HDD, having a MBP, I will end up filling it up, so not sure what to do anymore. Any help offered, is appreciated. In case useful to anyone, am now trying cloudally, to backup Google Workspace and Shared Drives - hopefully it works

@megapangolin1093 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting video. Thank you. WIth Backblaze, external HDDs must not be formatted to exFat as this isnt supported. A real drag as I use the drive on Win10 and Mac.

@megapangolin1093 3 жыл бұрын

@@PeteMatheson @Pete Matheson Just had confirmation from a Sr Tech at BB Support, I asked him to tell managment to put something on the website about this. It really isnt well understood. Mind you BB has been working on my exFat drive now for over a year, but now it has started to cause problems they are saying "no support". Good luck.

@garrick3727 2 жыл бұрын

Looking for an alternative to iDrive. Their backup is really slow (and it's not my bandwidth as they claim) and I do not want to ship them a hard drive. I mean really slow. It was running 24hr/day for 6 weeks and got to 33% before I lost power and had to start over.

@nadavremez 3 жыл бұрын

One BIG issue with iDrive you didn't mention. I just realized that their snapshots aren't "true" snapshots like you would see in say, local drive backups such as CCC. So, if you delete a file/folder in your computer, the next iDrive backup will not pick it up and exclude it in the next snapshot it takes. The result is that snapshots are bloated and messy and when you actually need to restore a folder, or an entire volume, it will look nothing like what your hard drive looked at on a particular date. It will contain a lot of extra files and just a general mess. I'm leaving them soon - just wondering where I should go to next.

@nadavremez 3 жыл бұрын

@@PeteMatheson Such a big fail, you have no idea. I actually spoke to a supervisor at technical support there and he didn't have anything to say when I told him that the feature they refer to as "Snapshots" isn't really that. What is it, anyway? I just downloaded Backblaze and uploaded some myself and I can't think this is much better. It looks like you can filter the view based on when a file was *uploaded* to Backblaze. So seems like it's going to be a similar cumulative clusterfunk. Let me know though what you come up with!

@x3ko777 2 жыл бұрын

@@PeteMatheson It is not a big fail. There is a difference between a sync service and a backup service. A sync service will reflect your devices current state - if you delete something from your device it will also be deleted from your cloud storage. The downside to this is it can't always protect you from things like accidental deletions, eg say you accidentally delete a video of your grandma's 95th birthday that you want to relive 5yrs later after she passed only to realise you deleted it years ago. A sync service will not have a backup of it because it was deleted years ago.A backup service on the other hand will still have a copy. If you want to permanently delete something from a backup service it can still be done, you just need to follow the instructions or use the built in management tools. No one should assume their way of managing data is the only way of managing data, because not everyone has the same requirements. There are different services catering to different needs. As always read what a service does before purchasing.

@RobertShaverOfAustin 3 жыл бұрын

I was disappointed that you didn't compare storage prices among these systems. For example 1GB of data stored for one month costs: BackBlaze G2 Cloud: $0.005 -- iDrive: $0.00833 (I dropped BackBlaze Personal because: 1. other reviewers said that the inability to prioritize files for upload - 2. downloading files was difficult and slow.) I have about 12 TB I need to store off-sight. (It's all my own data; photos and videos from over the years that I might want to play with now that I'm retired.) I will take a look at Crashplan because you gave it a thumbs-up for it. Thanks for a great channel. I'm going to check your other videos to see if I want to subscribe. I'll comment if I do.

@RobertShaverOfAustin 3 жыл бұрын

@@PeteMatheson I know that creating these reviews are arduous and take a lot of time to compare the details. I could not figure out how much Crashplan charges. Their pricing page is actually an FAQ. They just say $10/month/computer but they say nothing about storage capacity. If they have any info about capacity included in this fee then please point it out to me. They just seem focused on their "free trial" which wastes my time and really they seem quite unprofessional. I could also find no contact information where I could ask questions. The obscurity of their web site has lead me to remove them from my maybe-list.

@RobertShaverOfAustin 3 жыл бұрын

@@PeteMatheson Then why do they not say that on their web site? I have many hard drives in the closet. Not wise but it was the best I could do. Now I buy external drives in pairs so that I can backup one with the other, keeping the backup off-line between backups. Now I'd like to be about to archive all of this in the cloud as well. 3-2-1

@RameshKumar-ng3nf 3 жыл бұрын

Hello Bro, i am new to technical things. Might sound silly question. My question is -> I have a iphone 11 , ipad and macbook , i have icloud storage increased to 100GB. I wonder when we already have a icloud for apple devices, why does people purchase other clouds like DROPBOX etc . Please help me understand whats the difference between icloud and DROPBOX. I am fully confused.

@RameshKumar-ng3nf 3 жыл бұрын

@@PeteMatheson Awesome. Thanks so much sharing for the details . I am your new subscriber , hence will watch the cloud storage video now. I think i missed it. Thanks again for helping me 🙏

@omax-sy8xp Жыл бұрын

Are you sure iDrive doesn't have deduplication? i just did some research and they're saying they do. I'm confused.

@krazy1796 3 жыл бұрын

Your channel will reach 100k in 2021. So much info in every video my mind about to explode 🤕

@beastmuzikkrekordz9710 3 жыл бұрын

Backblaze works for me.

@malthus101 2 жыл бұрын

why is cloud storage like Dropbox or Icedrive not backup?

@digitalgods5568 2 жыл бұрын

I tried the free evaluation for Backblaze and they will not backup Windows, System Directory or programs. That's a deal breaker for me. Idrive on the other hand offers full computer backup.

@uss2defiant260 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the vid. on a side note, big difference of bandwidth. you are showing bits (lowercase b) not bytes (uppercase b).

@uss2defiant260 3 жыл бұрын

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@nide360 Жыл бұрын

Why does the Idrive lower the quality on my pictues and videos?

@sriganesh_ninja 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, I signed up using your Link. I will Update how it works. I recently Brought the idrive. The Data backup is fast. But when added from 14.6 GB to 430GB Backup. It got disconnected. Asking Firewall to allow. So didn't check with those settings.

@davejacker183 3 жыл бұрын

What do you think about Icedrive ?

@drzman6901 3 жыл бұрын

Be very careful with Carbonite. It does not back up certain file types (apparently based on file suffix on MS Win 10.) For example, I had some precious slide shows I constructed over many hundreds of hours. The slide show software bundled them up as .exe files. Guess what, Carbonite ignores these and there is nothing I can do about this short of renaming the files to trick Carbonite. Well, it happened, a massive disk failure. I got almost everything back except my slide shows. Hundreds of hours down the toilet. In fairness to Carbonite, they do mention this on a a lengthy, small print read this document, but it didn't occur to me that it was not backing up my slide shows. In addition, there were audio tracks (.mp3) that I used in the shows and these aren't backed up either. The images I used to compose the shows are still there, but I can't bear to redo hundreds of hours of work. Be warned. Also, there are things you would think would be back up, but aren't. I had several years of tracking data on Google Earth, pins tracks, etc. All are gone with my disk crash because Carbonite refuses to back up files in user/appdata folders and there is no way to force this. Many, many hours of data, down the toilet with no way to retrieve it. Google keeps your location data on its servers for Google Mapes, but not Google Earth. If you keep a lot of Earth data, learn where the data is kept and move it out to a syncing service or copy it into one of your folders that are backed up so that Carbonite will pick it up. I am very depressed. I have been burned 3 times now with Carbonite and plan to move to another back up service.

@MattPryze Жыл бұрын

Same reason I'm here when I learned it wasnt backup up my project files

@peteraugustin5095 2 жыл бұрын

Just wondering if there will be an update for 2022 and if your can comment on pCloud.

@brien. Жыл бұрын

Could sync be considered a backup?

@neildean7515 9 ай бұрын

Great video.. thanks..Just a word of warning.. most of these services including backblaze only save up to 30 days of your back up, ie.. it is not archiving data for months or years as some suspect. I am no expert😳 But, you can pay extra for history or archiving.. be sure to double check if you are a cloud back up novice…

@RandomRichard2022 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I have a Synology Nas that I would like to backup with Backblaze. However, I see that Synology only supports Backblaze B2 which is much more expensive. Do you thing there's a way to backup my nas with backblaze personal? Perhaps through my computer? any suggestions? thank you.

@RandomRichard2022 2 жыл бұрын

@@PeteMatheson I see. and I think I heard you say this might be possible with CrashPlan instead? Is that right? How would I do that? thank you :)

@miguelzabala5796 2 жыл бұрын

If you mount it in a drive on Win o Mac you can.

@RandomRichard2022 2 жыл бұрын

@@miguelzabala5796 Mount it in a drive? You mean like SMB?

@xythiera7255 3 жыл бұрын

What i have heard is that Backblaze delets your data after 30days and you have to reupload it.

@stephenkamenar 2 жыл бұрын

16:33 you do realize 100 megs is 1 gigabit, right? 125mb to be exact, but yeah

@stevevlahos5469 2 жыл бұрын

If your data is encrypted with bitlocker or Mac encryption, how does that affect the backup in the cloud.

@stevevlahos5469 2 жыл бұрын

@@PeteMatheson thanks.

@nofood1 7 ай бұрын

Crashplan, used them for 5+ years, Im done, way too slow.... not sure where to go now 🤔

@An.Individual 2 жыл бұрын

I agree re Carbonite. I used them (a few years ago) and you could never be sure which files it had backed up, they excluded many file types (not just large files).

@alysonfranca9565 2 жыл бұрын

Same experience here with Crash Plan and iDrive that constantly change the rules of files extensions, permitted sizes and operation systems supported. These details are very important, they need to be very clear and cannot be changed every few months. Backup tool needs to be reliable like a fire extinguicher cause you never know when you need it! =)

@matthewmeade5687 2 жыл бұрын

I concur that Carbonite is one of the worst companies to deal with and their product is abysmal. I used it years ago. I backed up everything and their app showed that my data was fully backed up; itching but green check marks top to bottom. However, when I had a computer issue and I needed them to restore the data they only had about 1/3 of it. The customer service guy I talked to referred me to their terms and conditions that stated they don’t need to copy all the data to consider my computer fully backed up. Then he said sometimes it takes time but I had been paying for the service for over 6 months. And it was only a few hundred gigs. I told him they misrepresented themselves and that their product gave me a false sense of security and that they should refund me and the guy laughed at me. Since then I swore off service like this and I back up my data locally, thanks for showing my me that not all companies are scammers and grifters like Carbonite. I might sign up for one of these.

@jessestewart5109 2 жыл бұрын

According to this article, Backblaze does have deduplication. I was considering iDrive but have now heard too many cons... Will probably go with Backblaze. Although I'm not sure if Backblaze has file versions. Or maybe Crashplan...

@NinadMPathak 2 жыл бұрын

After trying iDrive for 2+ months, I don't recommend it at all. Ihad backed up some important client photos on it and when I had to redownload them, the photos were corrupted. Half of the photo was visible but the other half was grey. Contacted support and they blamed me that it's how the original file was. When I shared the original file from another backup of mine, they simply stopped replying.

@jirehla-ab1671 Жыл бұрын

Is backblaze more cheaper than google drive?

@LoganLore 2 жыл бұрын

Funny. In the CC, “omissions” is omitted at 7:37.

@on7fd 2 жыл бұрын

Cloud-to-Cloud backup for iCloud Drive files seems nowhere to be found? Seems like a gap in the market?

@on7fd 2 жыл бұрын

@@PeteMatheson Probably idd

@jimenezmf9115 Жыл бұрын

Had to go with Avepoint

@johngalea2285 27 күн бұрын

One of the issue I have with a number of these services is they aren't so much as a backup service as a file replication service.

@noupot 3 жыл бұрын

I’m using iCloud and everything is fine.

@m.farhana.rahman3372 2 жыл бұрын

So if signed up backblaze for 2 years for example, do a full backup of my main computer. Shut it off, and never use the computer again, the backup data will be gone after 30 days???? So I will just be wasting my money paying for 2 years service with no data backed up? And I cannot access it anymore after 30 days even I have paid for it? So this is the worst back service if it won't retain your last known back up data lol I am looking for a service like the dropbox data backup which retains your data forever once you upload it.

@aquietinspiration 2 жыл бұрын

@@PeteMatheson they just told me today that if I don’t connect and back up my external drive every 30 days, backblaze does delete the data. I’m dumbfounded. How is this a back up service if it doesn’t actually save your data? Looking for a true backup option that I don’t have to consistently check in on. Ideas?

@mattshobbies Жыл бұрын

I will confirm his Carbonite conclusion - I'm a partner and I now find that I don't want to be a partner any longer. They used to be the best, but how the mighty have fallen!! BTW, you should have tested it on Windows, IT'S NOT THE SAME PROGRAM AT ALL. It's MUCH better on Windows as far as UI, settings, options, features, speed, etc (my fav feature is that you CAN easily tell it with one setting to backup ALL of the files of a certain filetype within the selected backup folders). But that 4GB limit.... they didn't used to have that.

@lorenzocostela6363 2 жыл бұрын

iDrive encrypts the data contained within the file and not the file-name itself. Certain metadata related to files including file thumb derivatives may not be encrypted (Source: iDrive's Terms of Service). This is not ideal for those seeking full privacy.

@ovzombie9477 2 жыл бұрын

CrashPlan does not support Linux, just Ubuntu. Slow speed are the norm.

@alysonfranca9565 2 жыл бұрын

If you have huge files, like videos that you edited and stored, these services don't back them up. There are rules for this. Also like the iDrive service and Crashplan(Code42) do not accept database files, .ISO files, virtual machines, among others. The list is long. Applications for Apple may even be acceptable, but for PC they are limited, especially Backblaze. Most of the world uses Windows, so benchmarks should be better on that platform.

@maticretar684 3 жыл бұрын

Would you say I'm 100% safe with Dropbox? Or at least 99%?

@maticretar684 3 жыл бұрын

@@PeteMatheson ok just one more question if you have time to answer, if I were to get some kind of crypto virus would it also decrypt files on Dropbox?

@maticretar684 3 жыл бұрын

@@PeteMatheson well I definitely would notice that since I back up all files from Dropbox to seperate flash drive every sunday just so I have 3 different copies of my files like recommended. Thanks, I actually feel safer now that you explained it a bit and will definitely keep backing up to flash drives so files are 100% safe.

@MrWanted000 3 жыл бұрын

Do you use 2 cloud service? One for backup and one for storage?

@MrWanted000 3 жыл бұрын

@@PeteMatheson mind telling us which 2? 🙄

@Team_Daniel_Eva_Belle 3 жыл бұрын

Cab Apple Icloud or google drive be my backup solution ? 321 rule - Pc/laptop NAS Offsite: google or iCloud ? I like to see what I have backup and be able to view over cloud

@Team_Daniel_Eva_Belle 3 жыл бұрын

@@PeteMatheson What if I set up only a one way synch. From NAS -> Google Drive. Then isn't that the same as a backup? Google also have 30day versioning?

@philipstancil264 3 жыл бұрын

I had wanted to do exactly what you're saying, Daniel. I tried using Dropbox as my 3-2-1 backup solution. We have a ton of files, as I'm a web designer, my wife is a photographer, and I do videography occasionally for clients. I had so many files that the Dropbox app became effectively unusable on my iMac. I spoke with support and learned that their desktop app can't handle more than 300k files. Soooo, Dropbox is GREAT for cloud storage, but if you have a lot of files to keep backed up physically AND in the cloud, it becomes untenable. Note that you CAN use Selective Sync in the Dropbox app to limit the folders that Dropbox will make visible and available on that particular device, which could then let me keep as many files as I want in Dropbox, so long as I don't care about having a local copy. But that defeats the 3-2-1 approach. Hope that helps.

@GodfreyMann 6 ай бұрын

Which of these providers are zero-knowledge?

@Househoppper 3 жыл бұрын

He didn’t put Carbonite in the description 😂

@larryFWD 2 жыл бұрын

iDrive for me was completely useless! Exactly as Pete said. Everything else about iDrive is okay except the speed. It is practically unusable for me as I have terabytes of storage to wade through. I'll probably try DropBox Entreprise now.

@MrDanielh3410 2 жыл бұрын

backblaze does not backup all file types

@Turn2UT 3 жыл бұрын

iDrive, so far, so good...

@DxModel219 2 жыл бұрын

Man... you are either high on caffeine or you 2x your video speed.

@nofood1 7 ай бұрын

need 2024 update

@Roki_100 2 жыл бұрын

4:53 megabit bro, megabit

@Shocker99 8 ай бұрын

I quite liked this video. It's a shame your mainly an Apple person.

@x3ko777 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Pete, this was an OK video however one thing you can do to improve is understand the difference between MegaBytes (MB - note the capital B) and Megabits (Mb - note the lowercase b). There are 8bits to a Byte. Therefore 1 MegaByte = 8 Megabits. You use MB & Mb interchangeably when they aren't the same thing.

@jamesarseneau4665 2 жыл бұрын

Why is that annoying music playing while You are talking? Your presentation is excellent, but that music is both distracting & annoying

@stevevlahos5469 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t like these services. I like to backup my own data. Full backup of the whole OS with differential and incremental.

@ronnieb9821 3 жыл бұрын

If you own a mac then why would you ever wanna use iCloud backup and pay for it if you have such a thing called time machine.

@smadarbar 3 жыл бұрын

I'm using CrashPlan & I HATE it!

@smadarbar 3 жыл бұрын

So maybe I'll go to BackBlaze. Am a bit skeptic about all options, now....

@pixunPL 2 жыл бұрын

What problem do you have with CrashPlan? The slow performance is hardly a problem for me. What are its other disadvantages. Other than that, I see the advantages in this material. Even better than iDrive. Backblaze is beyond my interest for several reasons.