My university uses Google Apps. With Google recently unveiling higher education customers will receive unlimited drive space, I want to take advantage of this to automatically backup my Mac. The general idea is as follows:
- Using Google Drive client, create a synced folder in your home directory.
- Mount the a folder in the Google Drive as a volume using a symbolic link in the
/Volumes/
directory. - Convince Time Machine that this volume is really suitable to use as a backup disk so it will place the sparsebundles in the “volume” (i.e. the linked Google Drive folder).
- Google Drive client will automatically sync and backup the sparse bundles.
However, I am stuck on points 2 and 3. I created a symbolic link /Volumes/Timemachine -> ~/Google Drive/Timemachine/
but finder does not recognize the link as a legitimate drive (even though this is the same technique used to map the macintosh hard drive to root in the /Volumes/
folder).
Has anyone ever done this before? Does anyone have any suggestions to proceed further?