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iCloud Drive, Notes, Photos, and iCloud Backup Experiencing Issues [Update: Fixed]

I'm coming to the conversation a bit late it seems, but: As I recall, Apple has had issues with their cloud services starting with .mac through MobileMe, and now iCloud. I use iCloud services as anyone, and thankfully I don't experience a lot of overall trouble with it. I think what part of the problem is, Apple has gotten too big, and tries to do too much on their own instead of contracting with other companies that have more experience in certain areas for providing the same services.
 
I've never relied on iCloud - I use Google Drive. Also, backup all your content locally. So it should be in 2 places locally (in case one drive or server fails) and another place on cloud (when both physical options due).

That's a lot of service down time for sure.
 
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It Just Works... most of the time.

Haven’t noticed any major issues today, thankfully. But it is a reminder to do a local backup of my photos - it has been a couple of months.
 
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sdz said:
Does iCloud Drive backup my brew installations? My /etc/php.ini?
Can I restore a new Mac completely with iCloud Drive and begin working where I left it last time?
Does iCloud Drive backup my Applications?
Are Configurations in the Backup artifact?

iCloud Drive is a synchronization solution for which I need an internet connection.
I cannot imagine restoring 750 GB via Internet
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You want a system + data backup.

I personally only want a data backup for my home computers. I use OneDrive still because it has versioning. I keep Photos in iCloud but keep them local as well, to backup with Time Machine. If iCloud had versioning I would not use OneDrive.

My house could burn down and I would not lose my data. I could toss my iPhone in the ocean and just get another and login and sync my data back.
 
sdz said:
Cloud Services are for the dumbest sheeps in the IT Biz. Their pricing is so intransparent that you need services that optimize costs and utilizations. Only the dumbest Managers accept storing / computing anything on the "Cloud".

There is no cloud. There is just somebody else's computer.
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Lol, you must be the smartest guy in the room then? Clearly lacking any tact though. I can't wait to read your book "How to make friends and influence people" a best seller I am sure.
 
sdz said:
Only debt slaves "buy"/lease new cars. Buy an old one. Does have no 5G, heck you don't even need an infotainment system. Just use an iPhone magsafe holder or something like that and let your iPhone navigate you (it does the job better as well)
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i don’t think you understand my point lmao... I’m not talking about 5G for data lol. How do you know cars will go self driving soon, but need to connect to a higher speed bandwidth to make it possible. Who’s talking about leasing lmao? I’m debt free I don’t do car payments
 
ouimetnick said:
Should have clarified. I know Google, FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, etc all suffer outages, but they don’t seem to suffer service interruptions as frequently as Apple’s services do.

I‘m pretty sure Google/YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, etc have more active users at a given time than Apple does too.
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Not for nothing, but for January...
 

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iapplelove said:
i don’t think you understand my point lmao... I’m not talking about 5G for data lol. How do you know cars will go self driving soon, but need to connect to a higher speed bandwidth to make it possible. Who’s talking about leasing lmao? I’m debt free I don’t do car payments
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Self driving? Forget about that.
5G will be 7,5G then.
 
I was able trouble with the App Store this morning when buying Bridgefy app but I think it might be the developer. :rolleyes:
 
sdz said:
Cloud Services are for the dumbest sheeps in the IT Biz. Their pricing is so intransparent that you need services that optimize costs and utilizations. Only the dumbest Managers accept storing / computing anything on the "Cloud".

There is no cloud. There is just somebody else's computer.
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It's generally somebody else's vast infrastructure of many computers, data centres and a service fabric layer. All cloud service providers juggle computing power and storage across many nodes. Our business is not geared up to doing that by ourselves. Yesterday we needed double the amount of normal compute power in order to service 20M service requests in one day. It happened automatically and scaled back as demand reduced. The costs to us are very clear. Our critical services have 3 copies of 100TB data in one (cloud) data centre, and 3 more copies replicated to another geographical region. It's not really the same world as backing something up with Time Machine.
 
I tweaked something Leo Laporte said years ago and call it a 4-3-2-1 backup plan.
In theory it is four copies, three media types, two physical locations, one cloud backup.

In reality: my office iMac has two g-tech drives that alternate time machine each hour.
My home iMac has a WD external drive with time machine.
My Air is with me in my backpack with a portable Lacie drive and time machine.

So that is three computers with their own data, and four external drives with their data. If my office burns down, I should still have my home iMac and Air. If my home burns down I should have my office and perhaps my backpack with Air.

Where I get lazy is at the office, I have a few USB sticks and an SD card and some burned DVDs that keep some stuff on it, but they stay there at the office. I should get into the habit of keeping some of them in rotation at different locations.

I'd be sad if my iTunes library disappeared, id be devastated if I lost my photos (wife and several children). My classwork for my current Mdiv classes I have printed but would hate to lose it. I also have ~5000 notes and highlights in my Bible study software (Logos) that should theoretically be in their cloud along with local copies.

All because I remember, when I had a PowerMac G4 with an external hd, that feeling you get when a HD started making a clicking sound. A dead hd is in my backyard "office" as a reminder.
 

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And if the provider decides to stop servicing you, you would look sooooo angry LOL
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Why everything is kept local as well and backed up to using Time Machine. That is why I bought my M1 Mini with a 1TB drive. I only have about 100gig in the cloud.
 
iapplelove said:
5g was hypothetical it could very well be 7g. But cars will need to be connected. It’s where the technology is going, and again I don’t mean connected to get emails.
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Connected ... mhmmm No thank you. Every position and movement will be known. Who knows, maybe Teslas approach will succeed. Camera based only and thats it.
 
It seems to me that the problem does not only apply to Apple. The products from ring.com are also defective. I think this is a more complex problem and it is not fair to blame the apple for it
 
TheMacDaddy1 said:
Why everything is kept local as well and backed up to using Time Machine. That is why I bought my M1 Mini with a 1TB drive. I only have about 100gig in the cloud.
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Hmmmm ok!

For me it is time machine only and iPhone is backupped locally. What is the point of having end to end encryption and then presenting everything to Apple in clear text?

And I really don't get Apple why the iCloud Backup for iOS is not encrypted. Its a shame really.
 
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It's generally somebody else's vast infrastructure of many computers, data centres and a service fabric layer. All cloud service providers juggle computing power and storage across many nodes. Our business is not geared up to doing that by ourselves. Yesterday we needed double the amount of normal compute power in order to service 20M service requests in one day. It happened automatically and scaled back as demand reduced. The costs to us are very clear. Our critical services have 3 copies of 100TB data in one (cloud) data centre, and 3 more copies replicated to another geographical region. It's not really the same world as backing something up with Time Machine.
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Yeah I know such businesses... Fact is, you have very bad software developers (let me guess: glued together software...). 20M service requests I could handle on a raspberry PI.

The problem begins with project setups and a cheapskate mentality in Mgmt. Amazon or any big resource provider need to fix this when it is too late.
 
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How do you know? One day cars may be connected to 5G etc. you just don’t know
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Since the Model T Ford thru 2021 cars haven't needed an internet connection. I mean, for the next 25 years people will still do the same thing in cars, drive them.
 
TheMacDaddy1 said:
What planet do you live on?

I manage both Azure and AWS environments. They ALL have outages. For me, out of Apple, AWS, Azure, and Google, I would say outages occur the most in this order....

Azure>>AWS>>Google>>Apple.

Now I will say this, at different point in the history of each cloud service, there have been issues. When the .Mac world changed to .me it was a complete mess....but it has been stable for a long time now. Microsoft had really bad issues when the commercial and business clouds merged into one. AWS outages can impact many things not Amazon related as so many people use AWS. Google has had long outages, and when their DNS goes wonky it can take down anyone using them.
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Don't waste your breath with facts. Have you forgotten you're on MacRumors. The hate capital of the world for anything Apple. When positive news is posted here Apple gets trashed. So this iCloud issue is only dedicated to Apple as if Google never has problems like that earlier posted naively stated.
 
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