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

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.

So if you are wondering which cloud backup you should be using to back up all of your data, then I hope this video will help you make that decision.

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0:00 Best Online Cloud Backup 2021: Backblaze vs iDrive vs Carbonite vs Crashplan
2:38 Backblaze
5:57 iDrive
10:58 Carbonite
15:11 Crashplan
18:44 Summary

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[jonagreyphoto]

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!

[douglester]

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.

[danielupton]

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

[bobeotm]

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!

[beatkultr]

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.

[MichaelMagdato]

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!

[rajdeep_bcharjee]

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

[wdashwor]

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

[RobertShaverOfAustin]

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.

[soaringabovetheclouds]

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]

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.

[raedjibrail]

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.

[itaylorm]

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]

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 🤔

[pieter]

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

[nadavremez]

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.

[cyngabj]

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

[neildean]

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…

[loonsailor]

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?).

[drzman]

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.