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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

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Post by barrkel »

statictype wrote: post #53
ghshephard wrote: post #12

Arq, (For backups to AWS - though obviously supports every cloud back end under the sun) and "Data Backup" by ProSoft engineering (For backups to USB) are my goto backup tools for day-day ensuring all my work documents are kept up to date. Yes, I have Crashplan (for the last couple years, backblaze for the three years before that) - but the constant chewing up of CPU cycles gets annoying after a while. And both crash…

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?

It took 3 years of disconnection before I got a notice the other day that one of my old backed up PCs was going to be deleted.

It makes sense; they're not an open-ended data archival company. If you don't have a copy of the data locally, you can't expect CrashPlan to keep the one true copy indefinitely. Connecting the data to the internet twice a year doesn't seem too onerous to show evidence of that, particularly for a cloud backup, the entire premise of which is that you're connected.

Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows

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Post by [deleted] »

Jenkins2000 wrote: post #75
jaxondu wrote: post #38

Earlier 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…

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Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows

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Post by skrause »

bhauer wrote: post #90

This 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…

The release notes at https://www.arqbackup.com/download/arq5_release_notes.html mention that you can now backup to a local directory or network drive. It's weird that the most interesting features were not actually mentioned in the main announcement.

Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows

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Post by bhauer »

skrause wrote: post #93
bhauer wrote: post #90

This 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…

The release notes at https://www.arqbackup.com/download/arq5_release_notes.html mention that you can now backup to a local directory or network drive. It's weird that the most interesting features were not actually mentioned in the main announcement.

Fantastic. I think I'm going to give Arq a trial and see how it works for my use-case.

Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows

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Post by 0xCMP »

beernutz wrote: post #82
0xCMP wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yea I think so, it's only for them to keep you from storing everything up there forever when it could just be stale data.

I think it's fair if these are supposed to be daily backups to do this esp with cloud data and having to provide "unlimited" space to everyone using the product.

Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows

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Post by Jenkins2000 »

leejoramo wrote: post #89
Jenkins2000 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. https://twitter.com/arqbackup/status/719924424263249920

Thanks! My faith in them has been restored :)

Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows

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Post by aidos »

GrinningFool wrote: post #86
falcolas wrote: post #70

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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.

With arq there are multiple layers that would have to be broken to get to the data. Still a risk, obviously - and one worth considering. I bet in the scheme of things though there are much easier ways to access this data available now.

Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows

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Post by xref »

enoch_r wrote: post #55

What compression was used before Arq 5? lz4 is super fast, but not particularly space-efficient compared to some slower compression algorithms. Since Arq customers are the ones paying the storage bills, this doesn't seem like an entirely costless decision--Arq is now faster, but you should expect your storage bills to go up a bit due to the lower compression. I use Borg backup with lz4 compression, so I definitely do…

Curious decision, as lz4's terrible compression ratio burns you both in monthly storage fees, as well as Glacier (or other service) restore fees.

Most of my backup set is pictures and compressed files, so maybe the lz4 decision was because they figured the majority of their customers fell in that category where no compression algorithm is going to help?

Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows

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Post by MichaelGG »

krzrak wrote: post #13

$50/year and you have to provide your own storage? Can somebody explain to me how they are competitive, i.e. in comparison with Crashplan or Backblaze? edit: my bad, it's $50 for one time purchase, not a year.

Even at $50/yr, what are the options for locally-controlled encrypted backups? Tarsnap, but it has a less friendly UI.

Re: Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows

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Post by jjp »

beernutz wrote: post #82
0xCMP wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Don't know whether I'm grand-fathered into a different terms but I've just pulled some files from a back-up on a machine that was last active 5.4 years ago.
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