How to backup my Mac to Filen cloud

[Tigaman]

I want to backup the entire machine to my recently bought cloud storage: https://filen.io/ I was advised by Filen's support to upload 'Macintosh HD' located under Locations in the Finder sidebar. I tried this in the desktop app and it failed. So I tried in the Finder itself - it uploaded an alias of 676 bytes - not the actual folder. I now realise that 'Macintosh HD' is in fact a Volume not a folder so I guess that's why it doesn't work. But I'm still at a loss as to how to do it. Filen support aren't responding to further queries. I used to use BackBlaze for this so assume it should be possible somehow. I should add that the Filen app is configured as a network drive. I also tried setting Time Machine to back up to it but it couldn't see it. How would I do it?

 

[sgtaylor5]

I have filen.io and I think its biggest strength is its flexibility in backing up specific folders to specific cloud Drive storage locations. What’s even more interesting is there are five different ways of backing up those folders and I haven’t seen that kind of flexibility in any other cloud storage service. I don’t think it’s a good idea to back up the entire disc.

I don’t think that’s a use case that’s well supported by any cloud storage service I know of. You would have to use backblaze or crashplan or iDrive to make that kind of situation work.

 

[Tigaman]

Filen's support email didn't say anything about it not being supported. I should clarify I don't want to backup the system as I know from Sonoma/Sequoia onwards there is no point. You're supposed to use Apple System Restore - asr. But everything else including system extensions, applications etc I do want backed up.

 

[sgtaylor5]

Filen's support email didn't say anything about it not being supported. I should clarify I don't want to backup the system as I know from Sonoma/Sequoia onwards there is no point. You're supposed to use Apple System Restore - asr. But everything else including system extensions, applications etc I do want backed up.

I think the answer would still be sync folders, but I’m at a loss to figure out how to make Macintosh HD – Data a sync folder local source.