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Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows
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Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
like deleting backups of Hard Drives that haven't been plugged in for 6 months Wait - what? If your hard disk gets lost or destroyed, how do you protect those backups?
You need to keep them connected periodically otherwise if you lose it without reconnecting... lost . For backblaze it's even less time.
I believe for CrashPlan, this ONLY applies to CLOUD backups. If you backup to local media or across computers, there is no "auto-delete" timeframe.
Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows
#83If I understand well, Arq does not backup the whole computer. I am looking for a tool that allows for recovery of single files, but also that has a backup of the whole machine, so that if the HD crashes it is possible to rebuild it verbatim. What does HN suggest for such a tool? I used Norton Ghost for years (but it has been discontinued).
Windows 7 has this included. They discontinued it for 8 and 10, I guess it was harming the backup market.
System Image backup was re-enabled shortly after due to all the complaints. It is still available in 8, 8.1 and 10.
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5495-system-image-create-...
Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows
#84One long standing issue I have with Arq is that there is no easy way to duplicate backup selections. I would love to be able to easily copy the selections between different destinations, or different systems that are being backed up.
Several years ago, I tried to manually edit the plist preference files, but that was painful and unsustainable hack.
Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows
#85I am a happy user of duplicity [1]. Discussed here [2]. Some comparison with Arq here [3]. It is more oriented towards servers and system administrators, but works pretty well and has a similar feature set.
[1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
which is a good thing. if a few years ago somebody said "just copy all your private data to some place on the internet... but encrypt it first" you would take it for the crazy argument it is.
What do you think is crazy about it? If it's encrypted, it can't be read. If it's on "some place on the internet", it can only be as redundant or more redundant as any other offsite solution.
> "If it's encrypted, it can't be read. "
Yet. It can't be read yet.
Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows
#87If I understand well, Arq does not backup the whole computer. I am looking for a tool that allows for recovery of single files, but also that has a backup of the whole machine, so that if the HD crashes it is possible to rebuild it verbatim. What does HN suggest for such a tool? I used Norton Ghost for years (but it has been discontinued).
for disk deaths I'd just settle with raid. life should be simple.
RAID does nothing in case of `rm -rf /`
the physical death of a drive is not the only reason you may find yourself needing a bootable backup:
* accidentally deletion of system files * theft, fire * system update that goes wrong
Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows
#88Arq doesn't get the publicity it deserves. It's a reliable, provider-independent backup solution that YOU control. Data gets encrypted locally, then sent over to storage providers. When new storage providers appear, Arq implements APIs and lets you use them.
Most importantly, when restoring, you don't enter your decryption password/key into a browser window. I don't understand how online-backup companies can talk about security while requiring users to give them their passwords in order to restore data.
I've been using Arq for about two years now and I'm very happy with it. For the reference, I have previous experience with CrashPlan and Backblaze.
Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its $50 one time purchase for new purchase. The upgrade from Arq 4 is $25. During store checkout, you can also choose to add a "Lifetime Upgrades" at $30 which will give you free upgrades for Arq 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 etc.
I purchased the Lifetime Upgrades in September 2015. Now it tells me there is a $25 upgrade fee to go to version 5. I emailed support a few hours ago to confirm. If this is true, I am extremely disappointed and feel cheated. Notice on the form to buy a new license it doesn't say anything about "Lifetime Upgrades for this major version _only_ which will be obsolete in a few months". I sure hope this is just a bug that…
There is an apology for the delay on twitter. Looks like your license for Arq 5 should be coming.
Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows
#90This sounds great. To my mind, it seems an approximation of Tarsnap but on Windows.
Is it possible to use Arq to backup to network connected disks via Windows SMB? In other words, is it necessary for me to use one of the supported cloud providers or can I just use one of my own servers as a destination? Similarly, is it possible to setup multiple redundant backup destinations (e.g., S3 and Google Drive, or S3 and my own servers)?