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"The Freeola Online Backup Service - LiveDrive"

Google Drive - pfft ;¬)


Freeola:
"The desktop software (Powered by Livedrive) is the easiest way to use your Freeola Online Backup account. Click on the applicable download button to start your download."

Never one for the 'easiest' way(!) can I connect via FTP to this service? Any s/w that says it runs quietly in the background puts me off! :¬P

I've followed the FTP instructions here but can't connect. It's possible that I need to give things more time to be setup in the background as I've dived straight in :¬)

NB. I get a 404 using the published mobile link?

Thanks,
[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Nice initial feed back, Jim the Dog ... much appreciated :¬)

First things first, thanks Freeola for offering up something for nothing - it is much appreciated.

I'm doing my first data load from selected folders - about 10GB worth of photots and personal HD movies. It's been going since Saturday morning (now Sunday evening) but a long first load is to be expected.

'background' upload clearly interferes with surfing now and again. It brought my IMAP email accounts to a standstill until I throttled LiveDrive back - but I suppose after this initial data load it may not be so heavy in future loads.

When I first saw the email I thought 'wuhoo somewhere online to back up my Synology NAS to'.... but it didn't take long to realise LiveDrive didn't support Rsync, ftp, or even copying accross from a networked drive - which is a tad disappointing.

An increasing number of people are backing up their data on NAS drives who's capacity far outstrip standard PC/laptop drives - so I guess it's a case of deciding which files are important and hope they fit onto your PC/laptopdrive to be monitored by LiveDrive.

All in all, it's free, so I'll shut up and see where I can use what's offered.

yes I suppose I should be grateful and not be looking in the mouth of this free horse (not sure where I got that!)

obviously it could be useful for media backups

FYI - re. Android App

myfreeola.com/online-backup mentions: "and an Android app on the way"


I've tried the Livedrive Android App which seems to do what it says :¬)


[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Thanks ncrs,
I'll hopefully have a play later.

EDIT:
I've installed Freeola Online Backup (Livedrive) on a PC I mostly use for on-site backups. Just seeing how things go backing up a few photos. Working well - obviously on a standard ADSL 448 kbps upstream connection the first 'backup' will take some time!
I'm sure this will have some uses though :¬)
Fingers crossed I don't see all my data indexed by the Search Engines in the near future!


Anyway, always nice to see Freeola adding goodies for their ADSL and Domain customers :¬)

[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Hmmm... wrote:
I would be inclined to keep ALL personal data away from any backup/cloud service myself!

At least the T&Cs seem to say the 'data' is the customers rather than "everything belongs to us" like [i]some cloud providers say.

Still haven't downloaded the s/w yet as I don't really want to run it on this PC - I'll have a play later on another PC.

Re. My earlier question about FTP access - it's a shame that's not an option as I would have liked to have used that in conjunction with SyncBack (my fav backup tool).

Bit of a pain the way Livedrive don't let customers via a reseller access their support pages! i.e. A Google on Livedrive software shows this result:
"How can I tell what the Livedrive software is doing? You can see the current Status of Livedrive: On a Windows PC: Right click the Livedrive icon next to the clock ..." but they don't allow you to read it on their support site - and don't let reseller customers login :¬( You can read the text via Google cache but it seems a bit daft.

If anyone is already running the Livedrive s/w please let me know what you think :¬)
[s]Hmmm...[/s][/i]

Don't disagree about ftp access, but having tried it out, I prefer using the client (via the briefcase). If you are worried about personal data, theres nothing to stop you backing up data to a zip file or some such and encrypting this and storing the encrypted file instead.

Regarding support pages, we'll be putting live some pages of our own (mostly done, but still in proofing stage), As far as it goes though, the livedrive software is pretty straightforward to use, mostly working the way you'd expect.

I'm backing up my home machine using it (mostly pictures and some music) and the only issue I have with it is that the scheduling system could be improved so that a backup stops at a particular time. It would also be nice to have linux client software.

I would be inclined to keep ALL personal data away from any backup/cloud service myself!

At least the T&Cs seem to say the 'data' is the customers rather than "everything belongs to us" like some cloud providers say.

Still haven't downloaded the s/w yet as I don't really want to run it on this PC - I'll have a play later on another PC.

Re. My earlier question about FTP access - it's a shame that's not an option as I would have liked to have used that in conjunction with SyncBack (my fav backup tool).

Bit of a pain the way Livedrive don't let customers via a reseller access their support pages! i.e. A Google on Livedrive software shows this result:
"How can I tell what the Livedrive software is doing? You can see the current Status of Livedrive: On a Windows PC: Right click the Livedrive icon next to the clock ..." but they don't allow you to read it on their support site - and don't let reseller customers login :¬( You can read the text via Google cache but it seems a bit daft.

If anyone is already running the Livedrive s/w please let me know what you think :¬)
[s]Hmmm...[/s]

For ftp/sftp access you'll need to upgrade to the briefcase (which is actually provides most of the features of the pro-suite such as SFTP/FTP access as well as but under another name). This also provides options to share files more generally on a folder by folder basis from your briefcase.

One word of warning if you do upgrade we can't remove the upgrade from the account we have to cancel the account and create you a new one.

looked up some LiveDrive reviews - not looking good, especially on security

www.bestonlinebackupdeals.com/reviews/livedrive-review/

www.smallcloudbuilder.com/storage/reviews/277-livedrive-reviewed

I think if I use it I will be keeping personal data out of it

how secure is the data?

If personal data is to be uploaded, can it be encrytped over the web?

what sort of encryption is used? are there options on the encryption