iDrive Backup

Follow up to my blogpost on backupping your data online. IDrive fills a market niche!

Get 2 GB of full featured Online Backup for FREE. Features include Automatic Backup, True Archiving, Versioning, Continuous Backup, Mapped Drive Backup and more. And best of all, they offer a free plugin to backup WordPress data.

They also offer backup for Mac, iPhone, Blackberry, etc. Absolutely fantastic!

Specific WordPress features (that impressed me):

Immediate backup of WordPress blog data, both files as well as MySQL data dump, into your IDrive online backup account

Scheduled backups occur after 12 midnight every day

Immediate restore of backed up data from your IDrive online backup account

Smart backup – Only the first backup transfers entire WordPress content, subsequent backups are incremental where only the modified data is backed up

Automatic notification via email on backup / restore status

Secure transfer of data to IDrive server using SSL. Non SSL transfer option is also available for non SSL servers

Detailed logging of backup / restore operations

Needless to say: I’ve created a free IDrive account and installed the plugin! Phewww … another worry covered! And by referring you friends you can get an additional 10GB storage space added to the free version (equaling 12GB of free storage). Pretty cool stuff!

Update: problem during WordPress intall! Found this in their FAQ:

Can I use a regular IDrive online backup account to backup WordPress data?

No, You need to install and activate the WordPress Plug-in. Through the Plug-in, create a new IDrive online backup account and start backing up your WordPress data.