Can I dump an entire hard drive onto iCloud Drive?

[alexjholland]

I'm running a 2012 MacBook Pro, with two hard drives.

• 1TB SSD Boot Drive
• 1TB Spinner 'media drive' in the optical bay

I recently upgraded to the 2TB iCloud package, but only use about 250GB of it.

Can I put my entire second hard drive onto iCloud Drive, so it's automatically backed-up?

It'd be useful to have the hundreds of GB of GoPro footage I keep on #2 in the cloud.

Thanks

 

[casperes1996]

Not automatic synchronisation between the two, no - unless you use a utility that checks parity between the two. But sending up the full drive as a dmg or something, sure

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

You'd waste a hell of a lot of space doing that. No point in backing up the system, which takes up quite a lot of space.

You should rather just use High Sierras automatic Documents & Desktop iCloud sync feature, which stores the contents in iCloud, hence doing what you ask.

 

[MacDawg]

You'd waste a hell of a lot of space doing that. No point in backing up the system, which takes up quite a lot of space.

You should rather just use High Sierras automatic Documents & Desktop iCloud sync feature, which stores the contents in iCloud, hence doing what you ask.

I don't think the drive he is talking about has the system on it... just seems to be a media storage drive

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

I don't think the drive he is talking about has the system on it... just seems to be a media storage drive

Ah, didn't notice that! But in that case, he might consider creating a Fusion Drive, and get the best of both worlds.

 

[ignatius345]

I'm running a 2012 MacBook Pro, with two hard drives.

• 1TB SSD Boot Drive
• 1TB Spinner 'media drive' in the optical bay

I recently upgraded to the 2TB iCloud package, but only use about 250GB of it.

Can I put my entire second hard drive onto iCloud Drive, so it's automatically backed-up?

It'd be useful to have the hundreds of GB of GoPro footage I keep on #2 in the cloud.

Thanks

I don't think there's a way (yet) to tell iCloud Drive to sync a secondary drive. Maybe there's a way to hack it with a symlink or something? I believe Dropbox might have some external drive syncing options, but that doesn't help you take advantage of your iCloud quota.

I've actually got the same "problem" -- a 2TB iCloud plan that I'm only using 1/4 of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[BrianBaughn]

It would be easy enough to test using a symbolic link but I've never tried it and don't use iCloud drive in my setup.