January 05, 2018
Keeping data safe at an offsite location and accessing it through cloud backup account is often recommended. Though, it’s a fact that backing up large amounts of data within an online backup account is not an easy task at all, even with a super-fast internet connection. Considering the same, IDrive online backup offers IDrive Express™ – a data shuttle service for protecting and restoring large amounts of data using physical shipment of temporary storage devices.
IDrive Express™ helps transfer large amounts of data with no bandwidth utilization for initial transfer and restore, making it an attractive option for metered internet users.
How Does IDrive Express™ Service Work?
On your request, IDrive sends you a hard drive to which you can securely transfer all your data using IDrive's Local Backup option and ship the device back to IDrive. Your data will be transferred from the device onto IDrive's primary storage devices. You can then proceed with incremental backups through the IDrive online backup process.
How to Retrieve Data with IDrive Express™
Once you request for the retrieval of data, most recent version is taken from the IDrive servers and saved to a temporary storage device. It is then shipped to you.
All you need to do is plug the drive into your computer via the USB cable and restore your data to your system using the IDrive online backup application. You must return the storage device that we send you after you restore your data.
IDrive Express™ service comes FREE for Express Backup, once a year for Personal users and thrice yearly for Business users. Subsequent backup requests will be subject to a charge of $59.95. Express Restores will be charged $99.50 per request.
The return shipping of storage device to IDrive is absolutely free for customers within the US. This service includes free return shipping and is available in the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Australia and the UK.
Additionally, there’s much more to IDrive online backup like
Secure Data Storage via IDrive Cloud Backup
IDrive online backup secures data with 256-AES military grade encryption, which means your files and folders enjoy top-notch security.
Protect Data in Real-Time with IDrive Cloud Backup
IDrive backs up data in real-time. Modified files and folders are backed up at specific time intervals defined by you. With IDrive cloud backup you can schedule the frequency and timings of backups for your connected devices as per your convenience.
Mobile Device Backup with IDrive Cloud Backup
Backup your device contacts, photos, videos, calendar events on iOS with IDrive cloud backup. Also, you can backup SMS, call logs and apps, on Android to your online backup account.
Protecting data is no more a difficult task! Sign up with IDrive cloud backup to know more!
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