Thanks, Rich. You addressed the exact issues about which I was wondering. I have several other backups of my data, but I was thinking that it would be nice to have a "cloud" version of the files, so that when I am traveling with my MBP I could in a pinch pull down all the files for any given site for emergency situations.
iCloud is much less expensive than Dropbox, and I already have it, where I'd have to upgrade my Dropbox (by a lot) to make room for all my site files. Hence, the question about iCloud. Currently I'm using Carbon Copy Cloner and a spare 2 TB portable HDD to back up my site files for travel, but it's not an ideal approach. I may have to use my account with rsync.net and set up rsync or rclone cron jobs to capture hourly, daily, weekly, monthly snapshots of my site files. On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 5:54:50 AM UTC-7, Rich Siegel wrote: > > On 4/15/19 at 8:45 PM, [email protected] <javascript:> (Greg Raven) > wrote: > > >I just came out of a deep slumber and discovered that there is > >a BBEdit folder in my iCloud account folder. I moved my support > >files into a new "Application Support" folder there, as > >outlined in the docs, but I'm wonder what else might go there? > > > >For example, I have a Sites folder in my user account home ... > >a legacy arrangement that even Apple seems only grudgingly to > >support. Because these files are outside of the iCloud Desktop > >and Documents folders, they do not back up to iCloud. > > > >If I were to move these files to a folder in the iCloud for > >BBEdit folder -- say, into a Sites sub-folder -- would my sites > >then backup to iCloud? > > We do not recommend that you do this. > > The OS makes assumptions about the contents of an application's > iCloud container, the worst of which is that *everything* in > there should be opened by that application. So if you double > click on (for example) an AppleScript, the OS will open it with > BBEdit instead of Script Editor. This is arguably a bug, but > it's an intentional decision on the part of the OS (via iCloud > product management, presumably). > > This makes the iCloud container barely fit for purpose for > storing the application's support data, and completely unsuited > for web site work. > > If you want to share any folder's contents across multiple > machines, we recommend that you use Dropbox, but you could also > use your iCloud Drive documents folder (for example, you could > move your current Sites folder there). > > Neither iCloud nor Dropbox should be considered a backup > strategy (in the conventional sense of "data replication in the > service of disaster recovery"). > > R. > -- > Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc. > <[email protected] <javascript:>> < > http://www.barebones.com/> > > Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they > sedate me. > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
