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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]

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

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.

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

I had a go at starting LiveDrive yesterday. Source data is > 20gb. My Machine hung to the point where i had to kill the LiveDrive process. On restarting it seems to be behaving, allowing me to go into settings and pause etc.

There's obviously an issue with the initial startup.

FYI: I am on Windows 7 64bit

Now I can't seem to log in to the LiveDrive site. I tried my given password but was told it was invalid. I tried resetting and entered the password sent in the email, but I am still unable to log in. LiveDrive is running away happily and I can even get to the status page from the desktop client

Anybody else have similar issues?

WOOPS. I changed the settings on the desktop to only scan between 7pm and 7am (i.e. off peak usage) and found that this doesn't stop LiveDrive uploading. Can't see a way to configure this, or an options to prevent LiveDrive running on computer startup. I am going to try to remove from startup using msconfig. will post an update if that's successful...perhaps the thing to do is run it as a scheduled task...

webcity1 wrote:
...or an options to prevent LiveDrive running on computer startup. I am going to try to remove from startup using msconfig. will post an update if that's successful...


Yes, removing it from the startup list in msconfig does the trick that's what I did when I set it up the other week.

[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Hmmm... wrote:
webcity1 wrote:
[i]...or an options to prevent LiveDrive running on computer startup. I am going to try to remove from startup using msconfig. will post an update if that's successful...


Yes, removing it from the startup list in msconfig does the trick that's what I did when I set it up the other week.

[s]Hmmm...[/s][/i]

right I've setup the livedrive backup to run as a scheduled process starting at 7.30 pm and finishing before 7am.

I currently have

240.79 mb
28800 files
4485 folders

uploaded so I will update tomorrow if the scheduled process has worked

Could someone please suggest appropriate settings for the max up/down bandwidth and connections configuration for Freeola's 24Mb/s rate.

Thanks,

Neil

Neilj99 wrote:
Could someone please suggest appropriate settings for the max up/down bandwidth and connections configuration for Freeola's 24Mb/s rate.
Thanks,
Neil

Wow - are you saying you're actually get the 'theoretical' 24Mb on an ADSL2+ connection? From your previous posts I know you are on a great line but not many people manage to get the full 24Mb.

I'm no expert with this but I guess your best bet (whatever your actual sync) is just to tweak the settings if you think you are getting contention with your backups. Or perhaps 'pause' the backups when you want to use your internet connection and resume backup when you are doing other things etc.

[s]Hmmm...[/s]

EDIT: As you are on a great line you might want to ask Freeola about 'Annex M' where you can increase your upload speed - but this is normally a cost option.

Thanks for the Annex M pointer.

I currently connect at around 13Mb/s.

N.

Edit: I have put forward a support enquiry about Annex M