So Previous customers need to upgrade to “Pro Suite” for SFTP? Which only has 5TB and not unlimited?

Yes – that is correct. Although you can add additional space to your account once you’re a Pro Suite customer.

Can I use Livedrive as a server for my MS Outlook Business Contact Manager database files?
(I am a small business with 3 pc’s and want to run my CRM function utilising this space)

Hi @Anthony – we haven’t tested it with BCM, and there are many apps like that which don’t particularly like being synced between computers – they prefer to be centralised somewhere. So I would suggest not, to be honest – to be safe.

I want to appreciate Livedrive’s recognition of the importance–and the need–for a secure transport for customers who are using Linux; although I consider myself an early adopter and supporter of the original paid Livedrive unlimited storage solution, two primary considerations had limited my ability to apply it fully:

(1) Whilst ‘m located in Toronto, I also maintain ESX and Amazon EC2 cloud servers at the XO Communications facility in Chicago and the Amazon Virginia facility); there is significant latency and overall low throughput to Livedrive, thus, I haven’t been able to realize Livedrive’s full potential as a full cloud storage solution. I’ve been able to schedule regular backups of log, conf, and other data files; however, transfer rates have averaged around 40-60kbps, making Livedrive inappropriate to mount more dynamic content, at least from my locations.

I realize that being able to backup via rsync/diff would be expecting too much, but even being able to replace the incremental cost of more responsive Amazon S3/more expensive storage local to the ESX Datastores via curlftpfs–and now with SFTP via sshfs–would more easily justify the increased price and decreased storage plan; and

(2) World ipv6 day still in recent memory, as an active member of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, one of whose initiatives continues to be increased ipv6 adoption, it would be more than simply a token gesture to make Livedrive ipv6-reachable–or at the very least, to outline an ipv6 adoption plan so that those of us who wish to plan an active role in the continued viability of the very Internet that I presume all of us here depend on, to varying degrees, can consider Livedrive a proactive part of the transition rather than a contingency or an unknown quantity! Although only one ISP in Toronto that I am aware of (Teksavvy Internet) offers native ipv6 to its DSL customers as a free beta, anyone that can route protocol 41 (or can set up an ipv6 tunnel endpoint in a DMZ for routers that do not otherwise support protocol 41 tunnelling) can easily obtain tunnelled ipv6 from Tunnelbroker; and others who need a more active NAT-traversal tunneling solution can apply for an NAT-traversing tunnel from sixx.net

One final comment regarding the SFTP implementation is that although the encrption and key exchange provided by the ssh connection provide at least a modicum of demonstrable security–perhaps even the minimum acceptable to some small businesses for “due diligence” purposes, its efficacy is significantly mitigated by the ability to authenticate via password. One of the strengths of an ssh-based connection is the ability to prohibit short (10- to 20-character, for example) passwords and require public key (1024- to 2048-bit) authentication; although there are a significant number of combinations of 10- to 20-character passwords, a simple brute-force approach could easily compromise such a short password, but requiring pubkey at least 100 times longer would not only allow businesses to place confidence in the transport being reasonably secure but also allow automation of the authentication process (again, circumventing the ssh password prompting with a short password only amplifies the exposure).

Happy Civic Holiday long weekend to those of you in Canada–and abroad, even if it’s not a long weekend!

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Thanks for your detailed feedback, @Robin L. M. Cheung. I’ve passed it on to our ops team.

Hi,

I am trying to connect livedrive with flex action script code,with your given information
(ftp.livedrive.com, port: 21 and 20) my user name and livedrive password, i can connect with other ftp server like freehostia, but i need to upload/download with livedrive.

let me know how can you help me about this.
please try to reply me , i can contact to live drive support team for this issue this is very imp for us.

I use Lotus Approach as a database manager for 12 relate datatables (*.DBF format) on a XP PC. At present only people on the local network in the UK can use them. I have an office in Russia and I want the team in Russia to use the same databases. Does WebDav allow me to share my DBF files between sites? I want real time rather than synced connectivity. Is WebDav any different from sharing files in a synced folder?

I know Approach will run as a client for a MySQL server. It can even export the *.DBF’s as SQL. Do you have a MySQL solution?

I tried signing up for a free trial tonight. The clock has started but something failed during the credit card sign up so I don’t have full access to things.

I tried FileZilla and WinSCP to try to ftp/sftp to my account (unlimited storage). It never works. Error Message: Could not connect to server. Same username and password as my desktop software and web portal. I was also trying to change to new passwork, web/desktop works but not for ftp/sftp.

I was trying to contact tech support, but the support.livedrive.com never let me in to see the support people.

Not happy with the support.

hi there, I’m looking to use livedrive for my photography business use. I’m looking into signing up for the Pro Suite package as the unlimited backup and briefcase suits my needs, before I sign up, I have a few questions:

With the files that are in the briefcase, do they also get saved to where the files are backed up? Or do I need to set up the files to be backed up separately?

Am I able to manually ftp my files to my Backup account? And can I access the files? There may be a time where I need to access the backed up files on my computer but may not necessarily want to download every single file.

Once I’ve backup my folders, am I able to add more files to the backed up folder? For example, I upload “Folder ABC” and then a few months later, I want to add some more files within “Folder ABC”, is this possible? I reason I ask is because in my photography business, I start off with the raw files within a folder and then once I’ve created the jpg files for that client, I’d want to be able to upload the jpg files to the same folder where the raws are. Would this be done automatically or will I have the ability to do it via ftp which would be fine for me.

Many thanks in advance
Sanjay

@Sanjay
Hi Sanjay,

just want to add a note from my experience with FTP.

I backed up all my photos onto my briefcase using FileZilla – worked well, however I did encounter difficulties with a few things – firstly not all the files created thumbnails when I accessed my account through the browser. Worse than that, I found that for a few files, I wasn’t able to download them properly.

After consultation with LiveDrive support, it was recommended to use the LiveDrive client to do this instead, so I re-did the files using the LiveDrive Desktop client (it compares the checksum of files, so I didn’t have to wait for ALL the files to upload again) and everything works perfectly.

It’s a highly recommended service (but keep a local backup of everything too!)

Regards,
Matt

Hi,

Does this only work with the Pro SUite account? Have the Briefacse and need to restore files encrypted by Cryptolocker style Trojan. FtP would be a good way to do this but won’t connect to the server?

Livedrive Support have been completely useless!

Thanks,

Laura