I have a MBP and a Time Capsule, but I also am considering an online backup service (in case of theft).
I would look at Mobile Me but I have circa 50GB of photo's and video's to back up and so there is not enough space.
I have had a look at IDrive which gives 150GB for $5 a month however i'm not sure whether it would affect Time Capsule as it also appears to back up files that have changed.
I have Time Machine connected to external Hard Drive. In case of fire, which is the best and free icloud backup.
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Mac
I'm not able to back up my ipone to the cloud. I need to do this in order to buy the new iphone.
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I guess I'm looking to create a fresh backup with only the iTunes items associated with my account. I can't find a way to identify what media is from these other accounts in iTunes, so I keep getting this issue when I restore from a backup.
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iPhone, iOS 7.1.2
So i dont have an external hd, but i want to clean install SL. Would it be a good idea to sign up for a free trial for an online storage site, do the backup, clean install sl, and then put my stuff back on and then cancel the trial? Would this work or is there some hidden bs i am missing. i dont want my card charged and it sayd 15 day trial.
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I'm currently looking into online backup solutons for my macbook. I intend to keep backups of all my photo's and home movies.
I've looked into and trialed the following
Mozy - The upload to the web feature worked fine, but when i tried to restore a few files it took ages. It took nearly 4 hours to download a 700mb file which had uploaded in less than 10 minutes. My broadband is cable and is 10mb so i am able to achieve a download speed of around 1mb's
JungleDisk - I really really wanted to try this as the pricing was great and the service looked fantastic. However, seeing as i'm in the UK and don't have a credit card i am unable to persue this any further. FOr some reason Amazon S3 don't accept visa debit cards.
Dropbox - I love this service, however I fully understand that this is a syncing service and not a backup service. If i was able to only upload documents and not have them automatically download to my other machine's or work machine then that would be great.
I am looking for the best online photo backup service available. We will have around 60GB photos to start.
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I was looking at the iDrive pro package which is $4.95 a month for 150gb.
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What does anyone think of Backblaze for online backup? Currently running Lion on a Mac Mini, & backing up regularly to an external drive, but if something happens at home. From what I see about Backblaze, the fact that they're very Mac-oriented is very inciting! (Former Mac people they say!) So, assuming that an online / offsite backup is a good idea - is Backblaze the way to go? Or one of the others?
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
an online back up service for an iMac OS X 10.4.11? Is there such a thing out there for this OS?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
Does anyone have any recommendations on an online backup service. I do have a backup external drive that backups my iMac but I am really thinking about paying for an online service. I think I will feel more secure knowing that if something happens to my computer all my data is replaceable.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Anyone use this? Its like an alternative to drop box. It doesn't seem to have any storage limits either (At least I can't see any limit) http://www.getcloudapp.com/
Just wondering for people who use it, It says the it has a "Raindrop" for Safari to shortern URL's.
How do you use this? I can't see anything in Safari to do it?
I am getting the following error from Time Machine when doing my first backup. The startup disk being backed up, and the TM disk are both the same size.
Macintosh HD: 465.44 (total); 393.99 (free); 71.45 (free)
Time Machine: 465.44 (total); 465.29 (free)
The Time Machine error is: Quote:
"This backup is too large for the backup volume. The backup requires 472.7 GB but only 465.3 GB are available." why would this be? Other disks are excluded from the backup, and Time Machine is telling me that it needs more space than it actually needs. What should I do?
How do I get to my music once it's in the cloud and how to I download it to my itunes on all devices from the cloud?
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.1.1
Having Wifi issues ever since the latest upgrade to 7.3.I want to re-install 7.2 She has a MacBook Air SSD Mid 11 production My Grand-daughter never did a backup with Time Machine. She can backup her files now. And the easiest way woudl be to simply do a clean install with 10.7.2
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 4 gigs of RAM ;-( not the SSD
I'm trying to enable Itunes in the cluod (I'm in Italy and it has been just enabled) but even if i set Music checkbox in Preferences->store->Automatic download I can see the button Music in the pruchased page on te app store.
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mac book pro 13
So all my itunes purchases are in the cloud which is great. What about playlists. Doesn't seem there is any way to put those on a cloud? Is the only way to replicate them everywhere by manually plugging in and syncing?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
I have a ton of material in the itunes store which I have not downloaded because I decided to save space on my drive, and use the streaming cloud option instead. I have the iTunes preferences setup as: Show iTunes in the cloud purchases
I have the iTunes View setup as: Show movies in the cloud However all my cloud content (links) has disappeared. I can only see what is physically downloaded. The artwork with the little cloud banner is not there anymore.Â
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iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.5), 3 TB, 16 GB RAM, Time Capsule
Google and Microsoft are putting Apps online. If this story is true, looks like Apple is following that route.
http://9to5mac.com/iwork-going-cloud
I assume iCloud is not a sync service for storing up to 100GB. So what is a recommended subscription service for Mac users? Perhaps one that would integrate with Time Machine?
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iMac 20, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 2.5GB memory
I want to keep songs on my main iTunes but remove them from the Cloud to make more room in the Cloud for new stuff.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
