Even though there are a slew of `free online services’ offering gigabytes of space, the real story is something different. Many of them are just beta versions, have painfully slow downloads and have set download limits. But IBackup functions like a virtual storage drive accessible from anywhere in the world through the Internet. As it does both incremental and compressed backups, the amount of network bandwidth used is considerably less.

IBackup can perform one-way syncing of files or folders from your local computer to the IBackup account. Snapshots allow the user to see files stored in the IBackup account during the previous days. IBackup for Quicken performs near real time backup of your recently modified ‘Quicken/ QuickBooks’ files to your IBackup account.

IDrive is undoubtedly IBackup’s nifty application. IDrive maps your IBackup online account as a local drive on your computer and allows you to drag-and-drop, open, edit and save files in your online backup account, as if they were on your local machine.

None other than PC World has recently rated IBackup as the `best all-round backup’ service. Try their free trial without any delay.