Re:16-inch MacBook Pro
by laichzeit0 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @05:32AM
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Yet Apple still has no option to Time Machine backup to iCloud. I believe there are some third party ways to Time Machine backup to some cloud provider, but I don't see why Apple doesn't provide this as a feature out the box.
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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro
by dkonofalski on Thursday November 14, 2019 @10:50AM
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Because Time Machine does versioned delta backups and, as far as I know, no cloud provider offers the ability to store that much data unless their business model revolves around backup solutions.
Re:16-inch MacBook Pro
by laichzeit0 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @12:01PM
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But it’s just for Apple users? A terrabyte per user is surely within Apples reach? I can backup my phone to iCloud, but not my MacBook. It’s a glaring hole in their end-to-end experience.
Re:16-inch MacBook Pro
by dkonofalski on Thursday November 14, 2019 @03:26PM
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Macbook drives typically can go to 1TB or more. You'd need much more storage than that to properly do a versioned backup solution that was online and that doesn't include any of the other uses of that storage.