Has anyone used Livedrive? To good to be true

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Hi all,

I am in the process of backing up my hard drive, near enough 400gb worth of data.
I was in PC world about to purchase a 2TB WD passport, which I have used and have had no issues with previously, when the salesman advised me about Livedrive. It costs £60 for 5 years for TB of storage in the cloud.

£60 for 2TB is quite cheap, so I looked into it a little and found that a few have had issues with Livedrive, in that all their data has been wiped clean, or it's too slow, or the accounts have been cancelled without any warning.

Does anyone else use Livedrive? Are there any other decent cloud storage companies available?

What backup methods do people generally use? I'm thinking of using two or three WD passports to backup my LR photos.

Cheers

Mani
 
Slow, slow, slow, slow, slow

Files not getting uploaded correctly, files going missing completely, shocking customer service

Slow, did I already mention that?

It was just and all round bad experience
 
Keith W said:
Slow, slow, slow, slow, slow

Files not getting uploaded correctly, files going missing completely, shocking customer service

Slow, did I already mention that?

It was just and all round bad experience
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I'll keep well away then.

Cheers

Mani
 
I use it, it has its issues but it was (& I think still is) the only cloud backup that allows a nas. Restoring from it is painful though
 
as a secondary backup look at 360 cloud drive
360 Cloud Drive is a Chinese service that offers a huge 360 GB of storage when you first sign up. If you download the desktop client, you instantly get upgraded to over 10 TB of storage!
the downside.. its in chinese so you need to use google translate
instructions state
The 360 Cloud Drive mobile app, website, and desktop program is only available in Chinese. Though it can be nearly impossible to understand what you're doing through the applications (given you don't read Chinese), if you translate the web page to English, uploading and sharing your files is a bit easier. See Google's English translation of the 360 Cloud Drive website

https://translate.google.com/transl...ndbox=0&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://yunpan.360.cn/
 
I use Livedrive and have had no problems with it at all. It took a while to upload my photos initially, but now it just does its thing and seems to be reasonably fast about it too. I have restored photos from it on a couple of occasions with no difficulty.
 
There have been so many services in the past that started off with great deals and then disappeared.

Back in the day, companies were giving away email addresses for life for free, dial-up services with no fee (just call charges) and dirt cheap hosting.

The vast majority disappeared at short notice or without a trace; littered on the verge of the information super highway. Only a few remain.

Question: would you trust your stuff (especially a backup) to a company unless you had supreme confidence that they would still be around in a few years and not screw with T&Cs? Even photo services (can't remember which one just now) changed theirs to be able to use your pics; users deserted in droves.

Also what are their backup policies?

I am old school. Physical backup at home and a backup drive at work, so even if my house blew up, 99.x% of my data would be recoverable.
 
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JohnM100 said:
There have been so many services in the past that started off with great deals and then disappeared.

Back in the day, companies were giving away email addresses for life for free, dial-up services with no fee (just call charges) and dirt cheap hosting.

The vast majority disappeared at short notice or without a trace; littered on the verge of the information super highway. Only a few remain.

Question: would you trust your stuff (especially a backup) to a company unless you had supreme confidence that they would still be around in a few years and not screw with T&Cs? Even photo services (can't remember which one just now) changed theirs to be able to use your pics; users deserted in droves.

Also what are their backup policies?

I am old school. Physical backup at home and a backup drive at work, so even if my house blew up, 99.x% of my data would be recoverable.
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I personally think that is the best method. However prior to hard drives people were saying, I chose to keep picture albums and write stuff down etc.

Tech just moves on and we should trust the better companies out there.
 
I have 10TB on OneDrive which I get as part of my Office 365 subscription.

However, it's a place to store stuff. It is not a backup - what if I want to go back to last week's version of this file? What if I want to restore everything?

For backup of the "if my house burns down" variety, I pay a fiver a month to Crashplan, and get a full backup on an hourly basis.
 
pwhysall said:
I have 10TB on OneDrive which I get as part of my Office 365 subscription.

However, it's a place to store stuff. It is not a backup - what if I want to go back to last week's version of this file? What if I want to restore everything?

For backup of the "if my house burns down" variety, I pay a fiver a month to Crashplan, and get a full backup on an hourly basis.
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For those who don't have the knowledge, time, or interest in creating home servers with redundancy etc, Crashplan is probably the best online back up solution at the moment. I thought Crashplan was free though? What's the fiver a month for?

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Pookeyhead said:
For those who don't have the knowledge, time, or interest in creating home servers with redundancy etc, Crashplan is probably the best online back up solution at the moment. I thought Crashplan was free though? What's the fiver a month for?

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It is free, however as with many of the services you can upgrade https://www.code42.com/store/
 
Cheers for that David :) I may look into it. I currently have Mac backing up to Time Machine. I also backup Photos folders to external drive. I guess another off site option would be useful :D
 
ChrisHeathcote said:
Cheers for that David :) I may look into it. I currently have Mac backing up to Time Machine. I also backup Photos folders to external drive. I guess another off site option would be useful :D
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Hi Chris,

My apple time machine packed up on me after a few years, so an off site is not a bad idea.
 
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