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Glen Ringkøbing Jensen
Iron Contributor
Nov 14, 2016
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How to use OneDrive for Backup on Mac

Im been running the new OneDrive for Business app since the release became avaliable. Im planning to replace my current MacSync setup with OneDrive for Business app.   Is there anyone who knows how...
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  • Glen Ringkøbing Jensen's avatar
    Glen Ringkøbing Jensen
    Dec 17, 2016

    Thanks for your reply Ben - Actually I have been using OneDrive for backup since november 15th with great succes, as you mentioned im using Symbolic links using the software MacDropAny and it works great :)

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Joe-S
Copper Contributor
Jan 03, 2020

Glen Ringkøbing Jensen 

I found your thread searching for the same solution, how to backup Mac files/folders to OneDrive when symlinks don't seem to work. https://www.howtogeek.com/204595/how-to-move-special-folders-on-os-x-to-cloud-storage/ has an approach where symlinks can work if you move the original file/folder to the OneDrive folder and replace the original with a symlink sourced from OneDrive. Here is an example where I relocated my ~/.ssh folder to OneDrive.

sudo mv ~/.ssh ~/OneDrive/.ssh
ln -s ~/OneDrive/.ssh ~

After these commands the .ssh folder is in the OneDrive folder, and ~/.ssh is just a link to it.

lrwxr-xr-x   1 XXXXXX  XXXX     42 Jan  3 09:45 .ssh -> /Users/XXXXX/OneDrive/.ssh

As a test, I connected to a new ssh host, which updates the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. I confirmed that OneDrive sync client detected the change and synced it to the cloud.

 

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Glen Ringkøbing Jensen
Iron Contributor
Jan 10, 2020

Thanks Joe-S 

 

It worked but only for 2 days, now I lost connection to OneDrive Desktop - Trying to figure out what went wrong

/Glen