macos-virtualbox VS data-transfer-project

I think VMware is the simplest way to go, but it looks like VirtualBox will do up to macOS Catalina if using this script.

From a Linux box, I try to create a hackintosh VM in Virtualbox, I tried https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox/blob/master/macos-guest-virtualbox.sh but the boot hangs on `UEFI shell`:

I've tested this script. It doesn't support the latest versions, but it worked

I installed myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox and it's running fine (except still having issues with new apple accounts logging into imessage, old ones work fine).

Personally, I have found this helpful to set up macOS VMs on real Macs.

I would argue that it is exactly in line with Apple's brand identity.

Pretty much everybody agrees that you need to backup your cloud storage as well as your local computer, and Apple even backs up your i-devices to the cloud, and yet, there is no automated way of backing up your iCloud storage.

About a decade ago, Google initiated the Data Transfer Framework[1] that allows you to transfer data from one cloud provider to another, directly from provider to provider instead of downloading it first. It sadly appears to not have gotten enough traction to be of any use.

[1]: https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project

Repository master branch

Once/If Data Transfer Project takes off, I’m hoping I will be able to schedule cloud to cloud backups without transferring data home first.

It's not just your parents.

I've moved everything to the cloud. I have nothing running at home except networking gear, and a small "server" that pulls nightly backups from the clouds to a local USB drive.

In theory i could probably do without the local server if looking at Apple/Microsoft/Google data redundancy (Microsoft is multi geo, i can't figure out what Apple is).

Sadly i need to guarantee that some random account closure doesn't remove all my data, so the backup server stays for now. The way cloud prices are going, it will only be a question of months/years before it's cheaper/easier to just utilize two cloud services, one for main storage and one for backup storage, and with projects like the data transfer project [1], you don't even need to download them first.

1: https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project

That's interesting, and it's the first I've heard of the project. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Apple has yet released the adaptors to the open source project [1]. As much as I'm not interested in having Apple copy my photos to Google, I am very interested in scripting my own offline backups without having to make space for Photos.app to store all my photos on my laptop's SSD. Hopefully the adaptors are added to the project soon.

[1] https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/tree/master/...