I have papers etc. on the iCloud Drive that I do want to be sure are backed up = either thru Super Duper clone or Time Machine or thru my CrashPlan cloud system = is the iCloud Drive contents like Dropbox, essentially mirrored ?? or are the contents only on the drive and not backed up??
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Cloning apps such as SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner can copy/clone the content of hard drives; I do not believe they can back up things in the cloud. And, although I do not use Time Machine, I do not believe it can either. Here are some Apple articles on icloud storage and backing it up:
http://www.apple.com/icloud/icloud-drive/
Thanks so much = I not only have items in each apps folder == more importantly I've moved some folders and documents there just to have access to them while on another machine = not unlike Dropbox == I gather what I can do is move them back and then back up the hard drive they're on = ???
I don't see why not; actually I think that's a great idea. You will have to remember that if you update any cloud content to also have it included in your next backup.
The content of your iCloud Drive is included in a regular Time Machine backup. The path to that content is YourUserAccount/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/(or the application associated with the files). In Finder you cannot see the original/mirrored/updated content of the Mobile Documents folder, only in the backup. In Terminal (or in a Wine-applications Open file-window) you can see the content. So we don't need to update the files "the Babowa way", they will be updated with Time Machine.
Mac mini, Os X El Capitan
Are the contents of iCloud Drive backed up by TimeMachine or can they be by some other app?
