Mirroring a NAS drive and iCloud

[Furbo]

We've Synology NAS and iCloud and want to achieve a situation where anything saved to the NAS saves to iCloud and vice versa.

The IT bod that is helping us has had a quick look and says that the NAS doesn't immediately offer that functionality with iCloud.

DAK how to achieve it please?

[eeLee]

It would be a hack.

Synology Drive Client on a mac

Syncs to/from iCloud and the NAS

I don't see Cloud Sync or anything from Synocommunity doing this plus iCloud does not present as WebDAV or anything like that.

[Furbo]

eeLee said:

It would be a hack.

Synology Drive Client on a mac

Syncs to/from iCloud and the NAS

I don't see Cloud Sync or anything from Synocommunity doing this plus iCloud does not present as WebDAV or anything like that.

So maybe I should run with icloud and backup to NAS manually weekly. Seems a shame though.

[Craikeybaby]

I take it that you want to do this without it going through your Mac? Otherwise, just use Time Machine.

[Furbo]

I would LIKE to be able to save to the NAS or CPU’s from any of my devices and then iCloud to be the cloud backup.

[Ham_and_Jam]

Furbo said:

I would LIKE to be able to save to the NAS or CPU s from any of my devices and then iCloud to be the cloud backup.

Not sure what devices you’ve got, but doing what you want to OneDrive is a piece of cake.

Whether I save to OneDrive or my Synology NAS, it creates a copy both ways.

[Furbo]

Ham_and_Jam said:

Furbo said:

I would LIKE to be able to save to the NAS or CPU s from any of my devices and then iCloud to be the cloud backup.

Not sure what devices you ve got, but doing what you want to OneDrive is a piece of cake.

Whether I save to OneDrive or my Synology NAS, it creates a copy both ways.

I am specifically trying to avoid OneDrive. They have fked up once too often. The last time, a few weeks ago, it could not find any of our files.

[Craikeybaby]

iCloud isn't supported for that: https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/7.3/softwar...

Neither Apple nor Synology are the types that embrace open standards for this sort of thing.

Probably not what you want to hear if you already have the Synology box, but for keeping in sync within the Apple system, a Mac mini would probably be a better bet.

[Furbo]

Craikeybaby said:

iCloud isn't supported for that: https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/7.3/softwar...

Neither Apple nor Synology are the types that embrace open standards for this sort of thing.

Probably not what you want to hear if you already have the Synology box, but for keeping in sync within the Apple system, a Mac mini would probably be a better bet.

I’ve got a Mac mini on my desk ready to install.

[Craikeybaby]

I'd run everything through that, backing up to the Synology.

Personally, anything that I want to be available on all devices, documents, photos etc, I run through iCloud, then use the Synology for archives and back up. The Synology itself backs up to the cloud (AWS in my case) overnight.

[Furbo]

Craikeybaby said:

I'd run everything through that, backing up to the Synology.

Personally, anything that I want to be available on all devices, documents, photos etc, I run through iCloud, then use the Synology for archives and back up. The Synology itself backs up to the cloud (AWS in my case) overnight.

That’s what I want. But I want to use iCloud where you use AWS.

[Brainpox]

iCloud is a bit st for that kind of use case. It’s Apples way or the highway. iCloud is more for the integration between Apple devices, and somewhere to send your photos to avoid filling up your phone, than it is as a backup of a large amount of data.

I don’t know if others have found the same but I find transfer speeds to and from iCloud to be pretty poor too. May be a consideration if you have a large amount of data to store and retrieve.

[Ham_and_Jam]

Furbo said:

I am specifically trying to avoid OneDrive. They have fked up once too often. The last time, a few weeks ago, it could not find any of our files.

I kind of get thet you want to avoid using something that appears to have f*cked upped your files.

I ve used it extensively, synching both ways for 10 years with my Synology NAS without incident.

There have been a few stories about Onedrive issues, but also as many about iCloud, Facebook, [insert online accounts here]

They all have issues.

I back up my important files / documents to a separate local drive for this very reason.

In short OneDrive < -> Synology syncing works very well.

[Furbo]

Ham_and_Jam said:

Furbo said:

I am specifically trying to avoid OneDrive. They have fked up once too often. The last time, a few weeks ago, it could not find any of our files.

I kind of get thet you want to avoid using something that appears to have f*cked upped your files.

I ve used it extensively, synching both ways for 10 years with my Synology NAS without incident.

There have been a few stories about Onedrive issues, but also as many about iCloud, Facebook, [insert online accounts here]

They all have issues.

I back up my important files / documents to a separate local drive for this very reason.

In short OneDrive < -> Synology syncing works very well.

I understand that there is no perfect solution. But I find Onedrive insidious.

Firstly it uploaded all our files and deleted the local copies, overnight, after an update. Then they re-indexed everything for some reason. You could see the document in the "recent" list but, if you searched it, Onedrive said it did not exist. Drill down into the location manually and it was there.

We also had a problem with other MS stuff which seemed to boil down to them making a decision on our behalf what should and should not be saved. We lost a lot of email attachments at one point.

Every problem we have had has not been just us. Googling suggested that lots of people suffered the same issues.

We are a small business and don't have a full-time IT bod. But the contractor we use said that he has spent quite a lot of time sorting out the above problems for multiple clients.

Also, given that I personally have now gone over entirely to Apple now, if I am going to nail my colours to any particular mast it will be theirs... until they piss me off.