If you’re looking for visual polish in your backup client, you may want to avoid IDrive’s service; the desktop client isn’t exactly ugly, but it looks like it was put together by a programmer rather than a professional designer. However, it makes up for this with an admirable focus on functionality: nearly all of its tools are accessible directly from the main window, via an obvious button with a clear text label. It helps that IDrive isn’t overloaded with features. It’s first and foremost a cloud backup system, and that means the specifics of backup strategies, compression and so forth are handled invisibly by the service. Indeed, once you’ve chosen which files and folders you want to back up, IDrive immediately starts quietly uploading them without asking any further questions at all. Even multi-computer deployments are effortless to set up: simply install a second copy of the software on a Windows PC or Mac and IDrive will then automatically create a separate archive within your cloud account for that device.