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My favorite is "Software development isn't a code production activity, it's a knowledge acquisition activity."

(Arq developer here) Haven't gotten many requests for it at all over the years. I presume it's because there are so many free options for Linux.

(Arq developer here) By default Arq tries to be unobtrusive. Edit your backup plan and slide the “CPU usage” slider all the way to the right to make it go faster.

Software development isn't a code-production activity, it's a knowledge-acquisition activity. It involves refactoring and deleting code too. I guess the AI isn't helping with that?…

Is there a way to mount the sqlite tables as a filesystem?

Arq stores the data in content-addressable format. Arq's data format is documented here: https://www.arqbackup.com/documentation/arq7/English.lproj/d... Arq manages the restore pro…

I think maybe you're referring to the original Glacier vault model? Nowadays you can put objects in an S3 bucket (with your own object name and metadata) and set the storage class …

I'm confused by this comment. Arq can store your backups in your own AWS account, using Glacier Deep Archive storage class. It's your own AWS account, so you pay exactly the Deep A…

Not sure when you last looked into Glacier, but they did away with the "peak hourly request" fee which could be insane if you restored data too quickly. Pricing is much more reason…

Google Cloud's Archive tier is cheapest to store at about $1.23/TB per month, but downloading is very expensive.

Not sure what you mean by "trying the saas way of things". We still sell Arq 7 as a standalone app. It comes with a year of updates. You can choose to renew, or not and keep using …

You could also make the Arq backups in your S3 bucket immutable, for more ransomware protection.

Console is sluggish for me, but S3 (us-east-1) seems to work fine.

There's no need to edit the backup plan. As I wrote in the reddit thread, clear the cache and do a backup. Sorry it's not more clear.

Are you maybe referring to Glacier "vaults" (the original Glacier API)? With the old Glacier Vault API you had to initiate an "inventory-retrieval" job with an SNS topic etc. It to…

The "back up and validate" function only downloads all the data if you're using a storage location that doesn't provide checksums (SFTP or NAS/folder). So, it shouldn't be download…

Arq 7 uses the Microsoft Graph API, the one we're supposed to use now.

A “you’re about to be charged” email would be friendlier and give the customer a feeling of more control. That’s what we do. (We of course will also refund the charge if you email …

(I make Arq, a backup app that supports S3's object-lock API for immutable backups). I can't see how to do incremental backups without using the private key to read the previous ba…

Arq will encrypt/decrypt the backup data with a key that never leaves your computer. The encryption and data format are documented here: https://www.arqbackup.com/documentation/arq…

(Developer behind Arq here) Nowadays many folks have lots of free cloud space in Google Drive/Dropbox/OneDrive and use Arq to store their versioned encrypted backups there, which m…

Or stored an a cloud storage provider that supports S3-style object lock.

Arq doesn't write recognizable filenames to B2, just checksum-based object identifiers, so it's not an issue for Arq backup data stored at B2.

Panic has a really nice approach with their Nova app. They keep updating it all the time; you pay once and get free updates for a year. You can choose at checkout time to stay upda…

In the course of building that data compatibility, our plans changed, we think for the better. We wrote about it here: https://www.arqbackup.com/blog/next-up-arq-7/ I'm sorry you f…