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IDrive Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
Microsoft, Google and Salesforce keep their services running. Keeping your data recoverable is your job — IDrive Cloud-to-Cloud Backup protects Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Dropbox and Box at a published $20 a seat a year, with unlimited Microsoft 365 storage and an India region for it.
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The IDrive platform family
This page covers IDrive Cloud-to-Cloud Backup — SaaS backup for six cloud apps. The rest:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- SaaS backup for six cloud apps, one seat price
- Covers
- Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Dropbox, Box
- Vendor
- IDrive Inc., Calabasas, California; private, since 2001
- Licence
- Per seat, yearly or monthly; no first-year discount
- Price
- $20/seat/year ($2 monthly); Entra ID $10/seat/year
- Storage
- Unlimited for Microsoft 365; 10 TB a seat elsewhere
- Security
- AES-256 default encryption; SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001:2022
- Analysts
- No analyst placement; PCMag and G2 are reviews
- India
- India region for Microsoft 365 only (May 2026)
- In India via
- TechBag — INR/GST, seat sizing and support
Understand SaaS backup before you buy one
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is SaaS backup?
SaaS backup keeps an independent copy of the data you hold in cloud apps, because Microsoft, Google and Salesforce keep their services running — protecting your data is your job.
Recycle bins and version history vs a real SaaS backup — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Recycle bins and version history | IDrive Cloud-to-Cloud Backup |
|---|---|---|
| A file deleted 60 days ago | Gone once the recycle bin empties | Restored from a dated snapshot |
| An Entra ID policy deleted | Rebuilt by hand, if anyone remembers it | Restored from an Entra ID snapshot |
| Ransomware in OneDrive | Hope the version history is long enough | Roll back to a snapshot from before the attack |
| A broken Salesforce field | Rebuilt by hand from memory | Metadata restored from the daily backup |
| Several SaaS apps | One backup tool per app, or none | Six connectors on one IDrive account |
| What it is NOT | — | SaaS backup only; no archiving, eDiscovery suite or Dynamics 365 |
The cheapest test is the 7-day free trial: connect your tenant, let a day of backups run, and restore something a user deleted last week.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Connectors
An admin authorises Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Dropbox or Box through each service’s own API; nothing is installed on staff laptops.
Scheduler
Microsoft 365, Google, Dropbox and Box back up automatically up to three times a day; Salesforce runs daily, and a manual backup can be started at any time.
Storage
Snapshots land in an IDrive region you pick per connector — twelve for Microsoft 365, India among them, and seven for Google, Dropbox and Box — under AES-256.
Console
One browser console to search every user’s snapshots, restore to the original or another account, export or download, and hand domains to delegated admins.
API connectors to six SaaS apps — snapshots up to three times a day, stored in the IDrive region you pick per app.
Nine capabilities. Protect, recover, govern.
IDrive Cloud-to-Cloud Backup keeps an independent, restorable copy of six SaaS apps in IDrive’s cloud.
Mail, files, sites and Teams
OneDrive, Outlook and Exchange, SharePoint sites and Teams and Groups are backed up per seat, with unlimited storage and no per-GB overage.
Workspace and Classroom
Gmail, Drive, Shared Drives, Calendar, Contacts and Google Classroom are covered, with 10 TB a seat before $5 per TB a month applies.
Records and metadata
Standard and custom objects, files, Chatter feeds and metadata such as fields, Apex classes, workflows and dashboards, in production and sandbox orgs.
Point-in-time versions
Each backup run keeps a snapshot of the user’s data, so a file, folder or mailbox can be rolled back to a version taken before ransomware struck.
Granular and cross-user
Search by user and restore one email, contact, calendar entry or folder to the same account or a colleague’s — or restore a Salesforce field.
Recover without Microsoft
Backed-up data can be downloaded straight from IDrive with no dependency on the Microsoft 365 account — useful in an outage or a lost tenant.
Directory objects for $10
Users, groups, roles, app registrations, conditional access policies and devices restored singly or together, to a known-good point in time.
Delegated domain admins
Several Microsoft 365 domains can sit in one account, and admins can be invited and given only the domains whose backup and restore they run.
Storage region per connector
Choose where backups sit: Microsoft 365 offers twelve regions including India; Google Workspace, Dropbox and Box offer seven, none in India.
Watch IDrive Cloud-to-Cloud Backup in action
Why Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace need their own backup, restoring OneDrive, Exchange, SharePoint and Teams data, and backing up a production Salesforce org.
IDrive Microsoft Office 365 Backup Explained
Why Microsoft 365 needs its own backup, and how IDrive does it.
How to Restore Microsoft Office 365 Data | IDrive
Bringing back OneDrive, Exchange, SharePoint and Teams data.
IDrive Google Workspace Backup Made Simple
Protecting Gmail, Drive and Shared Drives from one console.
How to Back Up Production Salesforce Data | IDrive
Connecting a production org and restoring its records.
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Book a guided demo →Deleted is not the same as recoverable. IDrive keeps a restorable copy of every seat, at a price you can read.
Here’s what genuinely sets it apart — and exactly where it stops.
A seat price anyone can read
Most SaaS backup is quoted through partners. IDrive prints $20 per seat a year for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Dropbox and Box, $10 for Entra ID, and $2 a seat for monthly terms. Unlike IDrive’s other products, there is no first-year discount, so year two costs the same.
Unlimited storage for Microsoft 365
A Microsoft 365 seat carries unlimited backup storage, so a mailbox-heavy user or a large SharePoint library does not change the bill. Google Workspace, Salesforce, Dropbox and Box seats get 10 TB each, and only storage beyond that is charged, at $5 per TB a month.
Six SaaS sources in one account
Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Google Workspace with Classroom, Salesforce, Dropbox and Box are all connectors on one IDrive account and console. A business on Microsoft for mail and Box or Dropbox for files — or mid-way between Google and Microsoft — needs one contract, not three.
Where it stops
Only Microsoft 365 backups can be kept in India; Google Workspace, Dropbox and Box cannot. Encryption is IDrive’s default key — the private-key option is for IDrive’s device backup, not this. No Dynamics 365, no bring-your-own storage, no published retention period, and India pays in USD.
The numbers behind the platform
What your IDrive Cloud-to-Cloud Backup rollout looks like
Count seats by app
List users in Microsoft 365, Google, Salesforce, Dropbox and Box — each is a seat — and ask IDrive how departed users’ data is billed.
Pick a region per connector
Choose India for Microsoft 365 if residency matters, and decide whether Google, Dropbox or Box data may sit in Tokyo or Europe.
Run the 7-day trial
Connect the tenant, let three daily runs finish, then restore one mailbox item, one SharePoint file and one Teams channel.
Add Entra ID and Salesforce
Add Entra ID seats at $10, connect the Salesforce production org and a sandbox, and test a metadata restore on a copy.
Delegate and commit
Assign domains to delegated admins, record the restore steps in your runbook, and choose yearly or monthly seat billing.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“At twenty dollars a seat a year, the Microsoft 365 backup cost less than the time we lost on one bad SharePoint deletion.”
“We picked the India region the week it appeared. For Google Workspace we had to accept Tokyo, and our auditor wanted that in writing.”
“Our sales team deleted a picklist field in production. Restoring the metadata from yesterday’s Salesforce snapshot took minutes.”
“Mail is on Microsoft, the design team lives in Box. One IDrive account now covers both, billed on a single seat rate.”
“Encryption uses IDrive’s key, not ours. For this data class that was acceptable, but it had to go through risk review first.”
“Teachers’ Google Classroom work is now in the same backup as staff OneDrive, and the lifetime education discount settled the budget.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the SaaS backup market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag SaaS Backup Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
$20 per seat a year; six SaaS apps; M365 India region.
Price Transparency × Workload Breadth
The grid nobody publishes — how much of the price you can read before a sales call vs how many SaaS apps one licence protects.
$20 a seat a year in public; six apps including Salesforce, Dropbox and Box.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
IDrive Cloud-to-Cloud Backup vs the SaaS backup field
Against Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, AvePoint Cloud Backup, Druva SaaS Apps, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup and Axcient x360Cloud — on coverage, price, storage, frequency, security and India.
| Dimension | IDrive Cloud-to-Cloud | Veeam Data Cloud M365 | AvePoint Cloud Backup | Druva SaaS Apps | Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud | Axcient x360Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Six-app SaaS backup | Veeam-run M365 service | Broad SaaS backup | SaaS-native backup | M365 backup + Entra | MSP SaaS backup |
| Deployment | IDrive cloud only | Veeam-hosted in Azure | Theirs, yours or SFTP | Druva cloud on AWS | Barracuda cloud only | Axcient Cloud only |
| Coverage | M365, Google, CRM, files | Microsoft 365 only | Widest workload list | M365, Google, Salesforce | Microsoft 365 only | M365 + Google |
| Pricing model | Per seat, year or month | Per user, annual | Users or data volume | Per user, by plan | Per user, flat | Per seat, quoted |
| Published entry price | $20/seat/year | From $2.63/user/month | No list; G-Cloud £1.50 | Not captured | Not on product page | Not published |
| Storage included | Unlimited for M365 | Unlimited storage | Unlimited or your own | Pooled per licence | Unlimited storage | 100 GB/seat, pooled |
| Frequency and retention | 3x daily; SFDC daily | Not on pricing page | Long-term retention | Policy-driven | Frequency not stated | Once a day, 10 years |
| Security depth | AES-256, default key | Immutable, off-tenant | Ransomware Warranty | Air gap plus MDDR | Immutable, 5 RBAC levels | AirGap, no purge |
| Integrations | IDrive 360 add-on | Microsoft Marketplace | Elements for MSPs | Search and legal hold | One console with Entra | PSA ticketing |
| Entra ID and governance | Entra ID at $10/seat | Entra ID on Advanced | Entra ID listed | Entra ID, AD, Okta | Entra ID included | Entra ID not listed |
| India storage region | India for M365 only | Azure Central India | India not listed | Mumbai (ap-south-1) | India data centre | US, Canada, Europe |
| Support and trial | 7-day trial | 24x7 on every plan | Terms not listed | Trial; tiers unstated | Via Barracuda or MSP | 14-day trial |
| Lock-in and exit | Monthly; download data | Self-hosted fallback | Copies in your storage | Held by Druva | Held by Barracuda | PST and JSON export |
| Best fit | Price-led multi-app SMBs | M365 estates, any size | Widest SaaS estates | India-held multi-SaaS | M365 with Entra, India | ConnectWise MSPs |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose IDrive Cloud-to-Cloud Backup if…
- ✓You want a published per-seat price, the same in year two, with monthly terms available
- ✓Microsoft 365 backups must stay in India and storage must be unlimited per seat
- ✓Your data is spread across Microsoft 365, Google, Salesforce, Dropbox or Box
Compare alternatives if…
- ✓Google Workspace backups must also stay in India — Druva lists a Mumbai region
- ✓Dynamics 365 or Power Platform need protecting — AvePoint covers them
- ✓You need copies on storage you own — AvePoint or Veeam’s self-hosted product
Do not expect…
- ✓Your own encryption key — cloud-to-cloud backup uses IDrive’s default encryption
- ✓A rupee invoice from IDrive — prices are in USD only
- ✓An analyst ranking — IDrive’s badges are editorial reviews
IDrive Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is one of 20 saas backup products TechBag carries. The SaaS Backup guide narrows them to a shortlist and shows the reasoning. →
What does recovering SaaS data by hand cost you?
Drag the sliders (seats protected; admin-hour cost). Estimates model IT time spent recovering deleted mail and files, chasing expired recycle bins and rebuilding lost settings at an assumed 1.5 hours per seat a year, with 70% of it removed by self-service snapshot restores. Both figures are assumptions. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Published, in USD per seat: $20 a year (or $2 a month) for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Dropbox or Box, and $10 a year for Entra ID. Unlike IDrive’s other products there is no first-year discount, so renewal costs the same. Microsoft 365 storage is unlimited; other apps include 10 TB a seat, then $5 per TB a month. Education gets 25% off for life. There is no INR price. TechBag counts your seats app by app, then quotes in INR with GST.
Microsoft 365 and Entra ID
Best for Microsoft-first tenants
- $20 per seat a year; Entra ID $10
- Unlimited storage; India region available
- OneDrive, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
Google, Salesforce, Dropbox, Box
Best for mixed SaaS estates
- $20 per seat a year, or $2 a month
- 10 TB a seat, then $5 per TB a month
- No India storage region for Google, Dropbox or Box
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
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The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
How many users per app need protection? Every connected user is a seat at $20 a year — ask how departed users are counted.
Which apps hold business data — Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Dropbox, Box? Is Dynamics 365 in scope? IDrive does not cover it.
Must Entra ID objects such as conditional access policies be restorable? That is a separate $10 seat.
Must backups stay in India? Only the Microsoft 365 connector offers an India region today.
Does policy require a customer-held key? Cloud-to-cloud backup uses IDrive’s default encryption only.
Will any Google, Salesforce, Dropbox or Box user exceed 10 TB? Storage beyond that costs $5 per TB a month.
How long must deleted data be kept? IDrive publishes no retention period — get the terms in writing.
Can finance pay a USD card charge yearly or monthly, or do you need an INR invoice with GST through a partner?
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate IDrive Cloud-to-Cloud Backup?
Count your seats across Microsoft 365, Google, Salesforce, Dropbox and Box first, or let a TechBag advisor scope a trial that restores one mailbox, one site and one Salesforce field.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.