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How to backup iCloud drive on portable hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="tape" data-source="post: 1747186" data-attributes="member: 178954"><p>A friend who lives 1000's of miles away from me had the same setup as I do with iCloud Drive. All documents and photos saved to iCloud (my photos saved to my computer). She has MacBook Air (husband has his own MacBook) and Airport Extreme for Time Machine backups. She just experienced one of the worst nightmares of all computer users. A very bad breakup with her husband left her with a cable & wireless being canceled so no internet or cell and upon arriving home from work she found her MacBook, her airport extreme and printer all smashed. She called me and asked me what she should do. I asked if she had an off-site backup, which she did not. I told her to call police and then I would get back to her, but I am at a lose as to what I should suggest to her. But the whole incident did make we worry about my computer stuff. I make regular backups of my computer's HDD and keep them off-site but since I use iCloud Drive to store my documents, I wonder about accessing that info with no internet and I am not happy about the idea of using Starbucks wi-fi to access such items. Is there a way to make a copy of my iCloud drive items to a portable diskdrive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tape, post: 1747186, member: 178954"] A friend who lives 1000's of miles away from me had the same setup as I do with iCloud Drive. All documents and photos saved to iCloud (my photos saved to my computer). She has MacBook Air (husband has his own MacBook) and Airport Extreme for Time Machine backups. She just experienced one of the worst nightmares of all computer users. A very bad breakup with her husband left her with a cable & wireless being canceled so no internet or cell and upon arriving home from work she found her MacBook, her airport extreme and printer all smashed. She called me and asked me what she should do. I asked if she had an off-site backup, which she did not. I told her to call police and then I would get back to her, but I am at a lose as to what I should suggest to her. But the whole incident did make we worry about my computer stuff. I make regular backups of my computer's HDD and keep them off-site but since I use iCloud Drive to store my documents, I wonder about accessing that info with no internet and I am not happy about the idea of using Starbucks wi-fi to access such items. Is there a way to make a copy of my iCloud drive items to a portable diskdrive. [/QUOTE]
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