iCloud Drive folder or Documents

[sivab]

I am in Mac eco system and have 2TB iCloud storage subscription. I have around 200GB important data in the Documents folder in Mac that I back up with Time Machine Hard disk. I want to move this to iCloud and at the same time want to keep backing up in my hard drive. Question:

1) Should I move the folder to the iCloud? OR
2) Should I enable the "Desktop and Documents folder" sync in iCloud Drive?

Thanks!

 

[jpn]

I am in Mac eco system and have 2TB iCloud storage subscription. I have around 200GB important data in the Documents folder in Mac that I back up with Time Machine Hard disk. I want to move this to iCloud and at the same time want to keep backing up in my hard drive. Question:

1) Should I move the folder to the iCloud? OR
2) Should I enable the "Desktop and Documents folder" sync in iCloud Drive?

Thanks!

i am not sure what you mean by #1 "move folder to the iCloud."
i am not aware of how you would move it to iCloud without first engaging iCloud Drive.

but anyway, if you have decided to have yr 200GB uploaded to iCloud Drive then yr 2TB of iCloud storage is the only option you can have.
i would of course not rely only on Time Machine as a backup. get that 200GB of data onto about 2 more, different off-line media first.
then i would chose yr #2, enable iCloud Drive's Desktop and Documents" folder syncing.
leave all the lifting to the program. do not move anything to the folders as they begin to appear in the iCloud Drive portion of Finder.
depending on yr net connection, it could easily take 2 days (of device sleeping and connected to a power source) to get everything onto iCloud drive.
as you are probably aware, only what's in the documents and desktop are uploaded - meaning download folder and any other folders' other than these two are not uploaded.
it would be good to check to ensure that optimizing is NOT checked and remains unchecked (if you want to make sure all yr data is always on yr local device.)

 

[splifingate]

hi!

You can do it either way, but do keep in mind that the D&D folder sync does actively (and recursively) sync the contents of both folders with little user attention.

I have a MBP that I utilize (much more infrequently than the desktop) on the road, and I don't want it to randomly try to sync gobs of stuff when I am in a wifi-reduced/tethered situ.

Anything else you add to iCloud (outside of D&D) is not automatically sync'ed.

For storing large, specific blocks of data, I prefer to just create a separate folder on my 2TiB iCloud space, so I can manage the what's and when's...

...it's so much easier to float to the cloud @home, where I have 1GiB symmetric fibre.

I can still get to everything I've stored *outside* of D&D in the iCloud space, but when *I* choose to go there

Do keep your TM backup, and (if you can), as many other backups as you can afford/rationalise . . . https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

I have iCloud, TM, multiple (local/remote) physical copies, and B2(BackBlaze)...it sucks to loose data.

Regards, splifingate