Help moving from OSX to the cloud -
October 19, 2014 9:12 AM Subscribe
Looking for suggestions or help moving a OSX disk image (.dmg) to the cloud ideally to a virtual machine, a less complicated project is moving a 8 gig Microsoft Office 2011 (mac) .olm file to the cloud and access via outlook.com, gmail.com or similar.
Essentially I would like to move a very device dependent archive of all of my data, settings, and software from a hard drive to a virtual machine to access if/when needed or at a minimum move a couple years worth of email to the cloud.
Suggestions?
Essentially I would like to move a very device dependent archive of all of my data, settings, and software from a hard drive to a virtual machine to access if/when needed or at a minimum move a couple years worth of email to the cloud.
Suggestions?
Response by poster: @primethyme
pardon my clumsy framing of the question... #2 is what I was thinking, a cloud based clone of the backup .dmg I have currently. Rather than restoring to a new machine I would be restoring to a cloud based machine which I could then access as needed #1 is an alternative I am not sure how that would work?
On the secondary email question, as mentioned I have about 8 gigs (4-5 years) of email trapped in a microsoft outlook (mac) data base which could be exported to an .olm file I would like to move to a cloud based service. The google apps tool looks like what I would need except for Outlook migration appears to work only for mac.
The point of the exercise is to liberate myself from device dependency for perpetuity (get everything I possibly can including accessible archives into the cloud). Any additional suggestions would be much appreciated.
posted by specialk420 at 11:04 AM on October 19, 2014
pardon my clumsy framing of the question... #2 is what I was thinking, a cloud based clone of the backup .dmg I have currently. Rather than restoring to a new machine I would be restoring to a cloud based machine which I could then access as needed #1 is an alternative I am not sure how that would work?
On the secondary email question, as mentioned I have about 8 gigs (4-5 years) of email trapped in a microsoft outlook (mac) data base which could be exported to an .olm file I would like to move to a cloud based service. The google apps tool looks like what I would need except for Outlook migration appears to work only for mac.
The point of the exercise is to liberate myself from device dependency for perpetuity (get everything I possibly can including accessible archives into the cloud). Any additional suggestions would be much appreciated.
posted by specialk420 at 11:04 AM on October 19, 2014
I would move your e-mail to a cloud service (like gmail) and keep your desktop as a laptop. I would seriously investigate a chromebook. Alternatives that are not a chromebook are pricey. Comparatively anyway.
posted by devnull at 11:29 AM on October 19, 2014
posted by devnull at 11:29 AM on October 19, 2014
So I understand you want to have all your data synchronized in via the cloud.
Is your current email account POP - IMAP - Exchange?
If its POP and / or you have stored email locally in Outlook / Mail.app you could "simply" add a IMAP or Exchange account to your mail client and copy the emails to that account. Do this in small steps, depending on the speed of your internet connection and possible limitations set by your ISP.
If you already have a IMAP or MS Exchange account your email should be synchronised to the cloud already. Please note that Gmail is not Exchange compliant and cannot sync contacts and calendars directly to MS Outlook..
As for your documents and other data use cloud storage services like : DropBox, Gdrive, iCloud, Box.net etc etc.
Pictures and a specially video's can be hard depending on how much data and your sensitivity for privacy.
posted by Mac-Expert at 4:54 PM on October 19, 2014
Is your current email account POP - IMAP - Exchange?
If its POP and / or you have stored email locally in Outlook / Mail.app you could "simply" add a IMAP or Exchange account to your mail client and copy the emails to that account. Do this in small steps, depending on the speed of your internet connection and possible limitations set by your ISP.
If you already have a IMAP or MS Exchange account your email should be synchronised to the cloud already. Please note that Gmail is not Exchange compliant and cannot sync contacts and calendars directly to MS Outlook..
As for your documents and other data use cloud storage services like : DropBox, Gdrive, iCloud, Box.net etc etc.
Pictures and a specially video's can be hard depending on how much data and your sensitivity for privacy.
posted by Mac-Expert at 4:54 PM on October 19, 2014
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posted by primethyme at 9:50 AM on October 19, 2014