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Storing files in iCloud Drive is very different from a backup I would argue. What a business would want in this case is Backblaze like functionality with versi

by dewey 5y ago

Storing files in iCloud Drive is very different from a backup I would argue. What a business would want in this case is Backblaze like functionality with versioning / restore. iCloud drive also doesn't really help you with restoring a full system like it is possible on iOS where all your settings, passwords and apps are just like you left them.

lostgame 5y ago
To be fair, iCloud has a password manager on MacOS / iOS that works great.
minimaxir 5y ago
Pages/Numbers/Keynote do support versioning in-app when the doc is stored in iCloud Drive, albeit not as efficient as true versioning.
chrisseaton 5y ago
Doesn't iCloud Drive have a revision history? For example DropBox does, so Apple could add the feature. > all your settings, passwords and apps are just like you left them Now that most of these things come from the cloud anyway, do we need the rest of the system backed up? I don't need to restore my system from a backup - I just log back into Creative Cloud, Jet Brains, etc.
- dewey 5y ago
  It probably very much depends on what you are using your computer for. If you are just living in Chrome and use Google Docs and Mail there this will work just fine. If you are someone who has tools set up, apps not from the app store, come custom dot files, your shell history and environment variables this will not help you at all and getting up and running after a device got lost / destroyed will take you a day. Even if it's just simple things like your system theme / Dock positions of your apps. You could probably fiddle and symlink things and hope everything works but it's not a "log in and have your device be in the same condition as before" like you'd get from an iOS "Restore from iCloud" functionality.
kube-system 5y ago
> What a business would want in this case is Backblaze like functionality with versioning / restore Maybe. Some businesses just back up just their user's files and just reimage machines when something goes wrong.
- jhickok 5y ago
  Honestly as an end-user that's my preference.
selykg 5y ago
I use Backblaze, and aside from the cost, it's great. It's fine for 1 computer, but oof, there's no multi-computer discount. Most of my machines aren't backing up terabytes of storage either. We're talking like ~100gb a machine and there's two of them. Businesses like to talk up "unlimited" but it's a pain when you're using less storage but have to subsidize those using a ton of storage.
- majou 5y ago
  A few years ago Backblaze started offering B2, a storage API priced at $0.005/GB/month, and dirt cheap egress fees unlike the big cloud offerings. You'd save money switching to a client that supports B2, they have a list on the site, though I'm not sure which provide decent version management.

by dewey 5y ago

lostgame 5y ago

To be fair, iCloud has a password manager on MacOS / iOS that works great.

minimaxir 5y ago

Pages/Numbers/Keynote do support versioning in-app when the doc is stored in iCloud Drive, albeit not as efficient as true versioning.

chrisseaton 5y ago

Doesn't iCloud Drive have a revision history? For example DropBox does, so Apple could add the feature. > all your settings, passwords and apps are just like you left them Now that most of these things come from the cloud anyway, do we need the rest of the system backed up? I don't need to restore my system from a backup - I just log back into Creative Cloud, Jet Brains, etc.

dewey 5y ago
It probably very much depends on what you are using your computer for. If you are just living in Chrome and use Google Docs and Mail there this will work just fine. If you are someone who has tools set up, apps not from the app store, come custom dot files, your shell history and environment variables this will not help you at all and getting up and running after a device got lost / destroyed will take you a day. Even if it's just simple things like your system theme / Dock positions of your apps. You could probably fiddle and symlink things and hope everything works but it's not a "log in and have your device be in the same condition as before" like you'd get from an iOS "Restore from iCloud" functionality.

kube-system 5y ago

> What a business would want in this case is Backblaze like functionality with versioning / restore Maybe. Some businesses just back up just their user's files and just reimage machines when something goes wrong.

jhickok 5y ago
Honestly as an end-user that's my preference.

selykg 5y ago

I use Backblaze, and aside from the cost, it's great. It's fine for 1 computer, but oof, there's no multi-computer discount. Most of my machines aren't backing up terabytes of storage either. We're talking like ~100gb a machine and there's two of them. Businesses like to talk up "unlimited" but it's a pain when you're using less storage but have to subsidize those using a ton of storage.

majou 5y ago
A few years ago Backblaze started offering B2, a storage API priced at $0.005/GB/month, and dirt cheap egress fees unlike the big cloud offerings. You'd save money switching to a client that supports B2, they have a list on the site, though I'm not sure which provide decent version management.