Any ideas for a storage solution?

Soldato
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Problem: Macbook only has 256gb storage and I have about 2TB of data (on an external HD) I would ideally like to move into a cloud or online based backup system for peace of mind.

I've tried Google and iCloud - but it seems to be designed around this need to sync. Sure, that works well for documents but what's the easiest way to just archive a load of old files offline and leave them there?

Dream scenario would be to have everything accessible via the cloud as if my laptop was connected to an external HD. If I wanted to open a file that was 1GB then it would just be downloaded temporarily.

Is it possible to pay for a service that doesn't have any 'syncing' capability, literally just a drag and drop onto offline storage solution?
 
I meant to say I realise iCloud can be set to keep stuff offline but I haven't found a way to directly transfer files from my external HD for 'offline' cloud storage, it seems to need to save them locally first which is impossible given my HD limit.
 
Cheers - looks very good!

Is it definitely easy tell it what you want syncing and what you want you just want stored offline?
 
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