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I haven’t used TimeMachine in a few years. I kind of figured it was deprecated with iCloud backups. Obviously there is more functionality with an iCloud backup
by dfee 9y ago
I haven’t used TimeMachine in a few years. I kind of figured it was deprecated with iCloud backups.
Obviously there is more functionality with an iCloud backup. But, the overhead of re-configuring my TimeMachine after upgrading from an AirportExtreme seemed pretty onerous.
How are you using it? Through an Airport, plugging in a USB drive, some other method?
As an aside, I tried out Dolly Drive a few years ago (think cloud-based TimeMachine) but I was a bit concerned about having all of my personal info sit in someone else’s hands.
- glhaynes 9y agoThere isn't really an "iCloud backup" on macOS. That's an iOS thing. I'd like to see an iCloud Backup-like thing for Macs, or perhaps an iCloud Time Machine. They seem to have enough trouble getting it to work well on local hardware, though.
- dfee 9y agoI was referring to System Preferences -> iCloud -> iCloud Drive, which backs up my files. Though, in addition, I'm a pretty big utilizer of the ecosystem: iCloud Music Library, Photos, etc.
- stephenr 9y ago> I haven’t used TimeMachine in a few years. I kind of figured it was deprecated with iCloud backups. Wat? Time Machine is for backing up a macOS machine incrementally to local/local network storage. iCloud Backup is for backing up iOS devices to remote storage. There is zero overlap between these tools.
- dfee 9y agoNah, read my other comment. On the Mac it's called iCloud Drive. It backs up your home directory, with exceptions you allow for. I have a dotfiles git repo I use, in addition to personal repos I check into. I'm not sure what I'm missing (I don't spend a lot of time messing around with manual configurations that aren't checked into my dotfiles git repo).
- stephenr 9y agoiCloud drive isn't a backup service. Its a file sync service. Sync != Backup.