{"id":8934,"date":"2021-08-07T10:34:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T17:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8934"},"modified":"2021-09-26T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T06:05:08","slug":"idrive-backup-doesnt-recover-snapshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2021\/08\/07\/idrive-backup-doesnt-recover-snapshots\/","title":{"rendered":"IDrive Backup Doesn&#8217;t Recover Snapshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say my computer was stolen today. I would want to recover a snapshot of my files from yesterday&#8217;s backup. As part of that, if a file of mine was deleted 5 days ago, I don&#8217;t want it in my snapshot. IDrive isn&#8217;t capable of that :-(<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to 3 IDrive representatives over the past 3 weeks and they all admitted that this was not a feature of the system.<\/p>\n<p>This is totally unacceptable because recovering from a lost\/stolen computer is half the reason I pay for backups. I&#8217;m now shopping around for another backup system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of IDrive failing at the task:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8934-1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cant-recover-snapshots-in-iDrive.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cant-recover-snapshots-in-iDrive.mp4\">https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cant-recover-snapshots-in-iDrive.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say my computer was stolen today. I would want to recover a snapshot of my files from yesterday&#8217;s backup. As part of that, if a file of mine was deleted 5 days ago, I don&#8217;t want it in my snapshot. IDrive isn&#8217;t capable of that :-( I spoke to 3 IDrive representatives over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8938,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934\/revisions\/8938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}