My household is on Verizon DSL for internet service, bundled with the monthly landline bill. They gouge us aplenty for their high-speed-internet-over-the-phone service.
I wanted to ask folks here about an idea I had:
I’ve heard that Office 365 subscribers use their included free 1 TB-per-user OneDrive as a kind of cloud-based data backup solution.
I was thinking of setting up TimeMachine so it could automatically back up our startup drives at night, and then have it incrementally back them up thereafter; that would certainly beat having to back up each computer to a LaCie 4 TB external USB 3.0 hard drive I have here. Then, as long as we have Office 365 (Home 5-pack), we have free backup here and we never have to worry. But here are my concerns:
1: My user folder is naturally quite large 327 GB. Is uploading all of that data going to be a problem with Verizon? I haven’t checked the “Get Info” window on my family’s user folder on their machine, but I expect it would be much smaller.
2: I’ve heard that other people on the internet use OneDrive as a cloud-based backup solution. Have YOU ever heard of a Mac user employing Time Machine to do this?
3: I would imagine that 327 GB would take a while to upload, probably several night sessions. If this is the case, how would I time sessions to start at, say, Midnight and end by 6:00 a.m.? Can backup sessions be interrupted?
4: Is it still possible to have Time Machine back up data to more than one place? Can I still set up Time Machine to back up to my La Cie drive locally, and also have it back up to OneDrive?
5: I also use other, external drives. One old LaCie Rugged holds my iPhoto library of over 100 GB. (A holdover from an era when startup drives were so small that you could not possibly hope to store iPhoto’s library on a single computer anyway; plus, both my iMac and my family’s MacBook Pro share the same iPhoto library anyway.) I have no idea if Time Machine can be used to back these drives up; I typically use La Cie’s SilverKeeper software to copy the contents to my backup drive. Any idea how to make this work using OneDrive as the new backup solution?
Everyone's feedback much appreciated. Hope all of you are enjoying the ten days of Xmas. Thanks.
I wanted to ask folks here about an idea I had:
I’ve heard that Office 365 subscribers use their included free 1 TB-per-user OneDrive as a kind of cloud-based data backup solution.
I was thinking of setting up TimeMachine so it could automatically back up our startup drives at night, and then have it incrementally back them up thereafter; that would certainly beat having to back up each computer to a LaCie 4 TB external USB 3.0 hard drive I have here. Then, as long as we have Office 365 (Home 5-pack), we have free backup here and we never have to worry. But here are my concerns:
1: My user folder is naturally quite large 327 GB. Is uploading all of that data going to be a problem with Verizon? I haven’t checked the “Get Info” window on my family’s user folder on their machine, but I expect it would be much smaller.
2: I’ve heard that other people on the internet use OneDrive as a cloud-based backup solution. Have YOU ever heard of a Mac user employing Time Machine to do this?
3: I would imagine that 327 GB would take a while to upload, probably several night sessions. If this is the case, how would I time sessions to start at, say, Midnight and end by 6:00 a.m.? Can backup sessions be interrupted?
4: Is it still possible to have Time Machine back up data to more than one place? Can I still set up Time Machine to back up to my La Cie drive locally, and also have it back up to OneDrive?
5: I also use other, external drives. One old LaCie Rugged holds my iPhoto library of over 100 GB. (A holdover from an era when startup drives were so small that you could not possibly hope to store iPhoto’s library on a single computer anyway; plus, both my iMac and my family’s MacBook Pro share the same iPhoto library anyway.) I have no idea if Time Machine can be used to back these drives up; I typically use La Cie’s SilverKeeper software to copy the contents to my backup drive. Any idea how to make this work using OneDrive as the new backup solution?
Everyone's feedback much appreciated. Hope all of you are enjoying the ten days of Xmas. Thanks.
