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I have written several posts about Live Mesh already. If you won’t know what it is then here is a short explanation of Live Mesh.

We have implemented Live Mesh in our organisation to provide the following solutions:

• Synchronisation between staff members of web development files. Currently being used by 1 staff member in China and 2 in Brisbane.
• Synchronisation of clients files between my office and theirs. Being used by one client so far.
• Synchronisation of files between my PC and my laptop for travelling. Being used for several projects as well as access to other files.
• Synchronisation on my PC between my virtual machine and my local  machine for software development files. This is better than using mapped network drives because the history tells me what files have been updated or added.

Amanda is currently researching the use of Live Mesh to share pictures between her work PC, her home PC and her friends PC so that they can seamlessly share hi-res photos. She will write about that soon.

However another possibility has crossed my mind and that is of using Live Mesh for simple file backup. I think this has a great potential for most of our smaller clients with one or to pcs and no backup solution, or maybe only a backup hard drive. I will be trialing this with one particular client who also has a remote access need and see how good it works. I note that PST files are excluded however but the remainder of his files should be able to be backed up online.

Here is some recent news about the Live Mesh capabilities and “limits”

• Size of all contents in a single Live Folder: 10GB (of course there’s still the 5GB quota which limits how much you can synchronize with the Live Desktop)
• Individual file size: 2GB
• Items (file or folders) per Live Folder: 100,000
• Members per Live Folder: 200
• Number of Live Folders per user: 200
• Number of devices per user: 100

The countries it is currently enabled for (English locale only) are US, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Canada, India and Ireland. So sign up quick!