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    iDrive quietly made a great local backup tool, and it’s free

    Jul 06, 2022 4 minutes
    BY JARED NEWMAN

    Oddly enough, one of the best ways to back up your data to an external hard drive comes from a cloud storage company. I’m referring to iDrive, which offers a free local backup utility inside its Windows and Mac apps.

    While iDrive is better-known for offering cheap cloud storage, its local backup tool doesn’t require a subscription and is only limited by the amount of space on your storage drives.

    Although I personally still prefer Microsoft OneDrive as my cloud storage service—mainly because of its tighter Windows integration and bundling with Microsoft 365—iDrive’s local backup tool is a straightforward and

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