102 PCWorld JUNE 2020FEATURE SOFTWARE WORTH PAYING FOR
minimal hassle, an online backup service is a
great option (go.pcworld.com/bse), and
storing your backups offsite can be a benefit if
your home ever suffers from disaster. Once you
get an online backup service up and running, it
does all the busywork in the background with
little to no input required from you. Our favorite
is iDrive (go.pcworld.com/idi), which costs
$69.50 for a year of backups, or $99.50 for
two years (go.pcworld.com/995).
“iDrive has you covered six ways to
Sunday when it comes to backup,” we said in
our review. “Online, local, sync, snapshots,
shipping hard drives to you for quicker
recovery... You name it, the company does it.Not the cheapest service, but easily the most
comprehensive.”
If you’d rather keep your data in your own
hands, the venerable Acronis True Image (go.
pcworld.com/acti) remains our favorite
Windows backup software. “True Image is
one of the very best for good reason,” we
said. “It’s capable and flexible, and rock-solid
reliable.” Acronis’s software has more features
than you can shake a stick at, and granular
backup options galore. From our review:“The program will back up partitions, whole
drives, and files, and do so with versioning,
incrementally (all post-initial backupsTrue Image also includes a number of auxiliary tools that are very useful.