This flexible and affordable backup utility holds its own with industry dominators like Carbonite and Norton. You can connect an unlimited number of devices to your IDrive account, and this backup service even offers a 5 GB free subscription.

Carbonite’s main claim to fame is its unlimited storage, but a number of this backup service’s best features have recently been stripped and relegated to the realm of premium subscription. Setting up Carbonite is easy, it offers excellent speed, and it’s available for all of your devices.

Weirdly enough, Ashampoo Backup Pro 12 is only available for Windows. In these days of cross-platform software, this model is relatively limiting, but Ashampoo Backup Pro 12’s mountable disk backup model might still be appealing to some backup purists.

Paragon Backup & Recovery 16 is an acceptable offline backup utility. In its 16th iteration, this backup suite finally has a user interface that is easy to use, and it offers a few features that set it apart from the competition.

The aspect of NovaBackup PC that immediately jumps out at you is the fact that this offline backup software suite operates on a yearly subscription model.

This backup suite builds on the Windows 10 File History feature by offering enhanced backup tools that feature File Explorer integration. You can download a free version of Genie Timeline Home to test it out, and backup times with Genie are relatively zippy.

Norton is one of the biggest names in internet security, and Norton Online Backup is a popular choice for online backup capability. However, what could be a perfect backup suite is ruined by a few significant drawbacks.