Q: Storing large sparseimage disk image on Microsoft OneDrive
Hello all. Happy Holidays.
Is anyone successfully storing Mac OS sparseimage (encrypted) drive images on OneDrive? Or AWS? Or GDrive? Or Box? Or DropBox? The question is specifically about large (e.g. 500GB) sparseimages. I want to maximize security by having my online data backup in encrypted images like that so even if someone hacks into the account with password Abc1234 they have a harder time cracking the actual data with separate password like ABCDEFghijklm)(*&12345678.
With 1TB of storage that OneDrive makes available I am trying to use more of it for an extra layer of backup of data from my MacBook Pro.
I love Expandrive which mounts OneDrive (even multiple accounts), Google Drive, Amazon, DropBox, Box and usual FTP, SFTP, type cloud storage as mounted hard drives on the Desktop. The OneDrive prices are reasonable too as I bought 200GB extra on one of the Live IDs.
The two ways I am seeing it possible are:
- Just drag the current local sparseimage to the correct folder of my mounted OneDrive, hope it completes a copy over, and then try to use Carbon Copy Cloner or similar utilities just to back up the change bands of the sparseimage.
- Create a sparseimage on OneDrive, mount it, and then copy contents of the local mounted image's contents online, hoping it completes and then use Carbon Copy Cloner, etc.
A third option, which I am considering is to see if TimeMachine can just see the mounted OneDrive as something to use. But I suspect that won't work.
So I am hoping to find and learn from others who already tested these options. :-)
Imran
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10), iPhone 6S Nikon D300 iPad 3 Surface2
Posted on Dec 28, 2014 8:53 PM