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Cdav929 · 2022-08-21 04:35:41

My problem I’m encountering is that I’m a hobbies photographer and am running out of room on my MacBook. I thought a solution would be to use a cloud storage solution and offload pictures from my laptop. ( don’t really like portable hard drives as I’ve had lots fail on me in the past).

However looks like with IDrive the only way to get files off my computer is with a backup - if I use sync then they’re still stored locally not saving me any room. My question is If I back those files up then delete from my computer - will those files be available after multiple other backups with those files gone locally?
I thought I read you can only recover files located in the last 10 backups.

Thank you for any help!
-Chris

SteveA · 2022-08-21 17:28:12

If you delete files locally and DO NOT enable IDrive's Archive Cleanup feature, they will persist in your IDrive account.

The "10" you've read about refers to the number of versions IDrive keep each time a file is changed and backed up. Usually images won't trigger new versions, but if you did accidentally change the contents of an image, you would be able to recover the previous version from IDrive.

However, I don't know that I would be happy trusting IDrive to be the sole custodian of my valuable photos - I would still recommend having another copy.

An external drive containing a quality disk should be reliable. If you want to keep your photos available, maybe consider a NAS with redundant disks (RAID) so that you can survive disk failures without data loss.

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Is IDrive the right solution for me?

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Re: Is IDrive the right solution for me?

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