Want to backup files on IDrive Cloud Drive or e2? Check the following parts to find the best free way to perform IDrive online backups regardless of your clouds, Cloud Drive or e2. Check the below detailed steps for references.
IDrive is a data backup service for Windows, Mac, LInux, iOS and Android to keep your files safe. Besides, It also provides you with the cloud backup feature so that you can backup files to iDrive e2 (its own cloud storage). IDrive also provides you with the IDrive Online Backup app to protect your files on Android, iPhone, and iPad. All files should be backed up, including IDrive, So how to perform IDrive backup?
Why should I backup IDrive files? Backing up with IDrive has numerous advantages, including:
Overall, backing up with IDrive is critical for protecting your data, and assuring its availability, and integrity. Whether you're an individual or a business, IDrive offers comprehensive backup solutions to fit your requirements and secure your digital assets.
How to backup IDrive files easily? Here you can find the 3 ways to perform.
If you use IDrive e2 for backups, it’s wise for you to backup IDrive e2 to another location, no matter local disk or another cloud. To backup IDrive e2 effectively, it’s highly recommended to try the web-based multi-cloud storage manager - MultCloud as your IDrive backup software, why? Check the following benefits:
Let’s start to learn how to perform IDrive online backup with MultCloud:
Important: Please ensure your Google Drive has enough cloud storage space to hold all the data from IDrive, or the task will fail due to unsufficient space.
1. Please sign up for a MultCloud account and log in to your MultCloud Dashboard.
2. Tap Add Cloud > IDrive e2, then input your IDrive e2 Endpoint, Access Key ID, and Secret Access Key, and hit Add IDrive e2 to grant access to MultCloud. Use the same way to add Google Workspace.
Tip: Check the following to learn how to get IDrive e2 Endpoint, Access Key ID, and Secret Access Key.
3. Select Cloud Backup under Common Tools, choose IDrive e2 or its files as the source, and Google Workspace as the destination.
4. Press the Backup Now button to backup IDrive e2 to Google Workspace directly.
Tips:
After a while, all the selected files in IDrive e2 will be backed up to Google Google Workspace. If you need to restore files for IDrive e2, go to Task List, then find the backup task, tap the three-dots icon, choose Versions, then follow the on-screen guide to restore quickly.
To backup IDrive e2 files, you have another way to make it, download files to your computer, here is how to make it work:
1. Please log in to your IDrive account, then tap IDrive e2 from the left side to open it.
2. Tap Buckets from left, then open a bucket you want to backup.
3. Select all files, and tap the Download icon from the top menu.
4. Then all your files will be downloaded to your Downloads folder, you can use them directly without uncompressing.
Limitation: You can’t download folders from IDrive e2, only files. So it’s not convenient for you to download all files from IDrive e2.
If you store files to IDrive Cloud Drive, you can download files from IDrive Cloud Drive to keep them locally. Here is how:
1. Please log in to your IDrive account instead of IDrive e2.
2. Tap Cloud Drive from the left side, then open a folder.
3. Tick a file, and tap the Download icon from the top panel.
4. The file will be downloaded to your Downloads folder.
Limitation: It’s not ideal way for you to perform IDrive data backups. Because it can only download a file at once, you can’t download multiple files simultaneously. And it denies to download folder(s).
To get IDrive e2 endpoint, access key ID, and secret access key, check the following steps:
1. Please create an IDrive account and log in to your IDrive account. Tap IDrive e2 from the left side.
Tip: If you use Google account to log in, then you have to change your password after logging in, or you will fail to log in to IDrive e2. Because it use the same credentails to log into your IDrive e2.
2. Hit Enable - 10GB free, and use the same credentails to log in to IDrive e2.
3. Then set up your region and create your first bucket to start to use.
4. Now, you can find the Endpoint and access keys.
After you getting these parameters, you can use them to add your IDrive e2 to MultCloud securely.
If you want to backup files to IDrive cloud, no matter whether IDrive Cloud Drive or e2, you have ways to do it.
1. Please log in to your IDrive account after registering.
2. Tap Cloud Drive from the left side, select the File Upload or Folder Upload icon from the top menu.
3. Choose your files or folders to upload, hit Open or Upload to backup files to IDrive Cloud Drive.
1. Please open IDrive e2 after logging in on the IDrive interface.
2. Tap Buckets from left, then open a bucket as the destination.
3. Now, tap File Upload or Folder Upload from the top menu.
4. Choose your files or folder to upload, hit Open or Upload to backup files to IDrive e2 directly.
1. Please log in to your IDrive desktop app with your account.
2. Then go to the Backup tab, and tick Backup files to my IDrive account.
3. Choose files and folders for online backup.
4. Hit the Backup Now button to perform IDrive online backup.
Tips:
Although IDrive offers IDrive Online Backup app for you, it’s not ideal for you to use because you have to backup all or nothing while performing automatic backups, and it crashes frequently. Thus, to perform IDrive data backup, MultCloud is your best choice. Of course, Download is another option for you to perform IDrive backups. Except for that, you can also do IDrive NAS backup with MultCloud.