ElephantDrive is a cloud data storage solution with SSL encryption, data synchronization, sharing and automatic backup to protect files against technical issues. Designed to provide secure and automatic backup to protect business files from hard drive failures, ransomware or natural disasters, as well as facilitating secure sharing and sending of files, ElephantDrive provides a range of tools for managing files and data.
ElephantDrive is a storage virtualization service used primarily as an online backup tool but also as a remote access service/collaboration tool. The service runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android platforms, and allows users to create simple automated backups for protecting data by moving it into cloud-based ElephantDrive account.
ElephantDrive makes use of infrastructure-on-demand as part of its architecture, and is one of the first examples of the applications built on Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service). ElephantDrive initially utilized Amazon S3 as a tool for a datacenter migration, but quickly moved it into the production infrastructure
Getting Started With ElephantDrive
Before you install ElephantDrive, you need to sign up for an account and, provided you want more than 2GB of storage space, pay for a subscription. The site then prompts you to install applications for your devices. The desktop installers are straightforward, simply asking where you want your ElephantDrive folder to be. In that main ElephantDrive folder are two subfolders: Backup and Everywhere.
Any file you place in the Backup folder automatically backs up to ElephantDrive. You can also choose to back up any file or folder on your computer by right-clicking it and adding it to New Backup Job.
Next, the web interface opens and asks how frequently you'd like the file to be backed up. After that, the backup starts and stays up to date. You can choose to back up any file, folder, or entire hard drive.
It's all very simple, which is nice, but sometimes simplicity can be frustrating. In this case, there's no simple way to monitor the progress of your backups in the desktop interface itself. You need to do that in the browser. The interface for checking on progress is laggy, however, and hard to find. It's under Reports and then within the appropriate category.
Syncing and Sharing
ElephantDrive is mostly backup software, but it has more than a few features you'd expect from cloud storage and file sharing services. I mentioned an Everywhere folder—any files you put in this folder are backed up to ElephantDrive and then synced to every other device where you've installed ElephantDrive. It's similar to Dropbox in this way.
You can also share files by creating a link to any backed-up file, and that link allows anyone to download that file whether they're ElephantDrive users or not.
If security is a concern, you can limit access only to individual users with an ElephantDrive account, though how useful that is going to be depends entirely on how many of your friends and coworkers are ElephantDrive users.
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