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

Post by mahyarm » Tue, Apr 12, 2016, 11:03 PM UTC

tomaskafka wrote: post #144

jwr wrote: post #88

Arq 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 abo…

Can you compare CrashPlan and Arq performance please? I use self-hosted CrashPlan for several years, it's great, but restores and thinning archives feel slow (like half a day for cca 1 TB of backups).

Post by Strom » Tue, Apr 12, 2016, 11:48 PM UTC

rsync wrote: post #138

0xCMP wrote: post #58

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You need to keep them connected periodically otherwise if you lose it without reconnecting... lost . For backblaze it's even less time.

"You need to keep them connected periodically otherwise if you lose it without reconnecting... lost. For backblaze it's even less time." No way. What ? You're saying that if I dutifully pay my $X/mo for unlimited backup space, but fail to connect, or perform an update, the remote data is removed ? What ?

Post by statictype » Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 1:24 AM UTC

atYevP wrote: post #128

ghshephard wrote: post #124

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Absolutely agree with you - I think CrashPlan/BackBlaze are acting entirely reasonably when they delete old hard drives, particularly if they give a bit of grace after sending the email that they are about to nuke them. It's that just for some of us, who like to archive something like a 100 GB Hard Drive onto Amazon Glacier, for $0.007/GB/Month. (Roughly $0.70/month + $5 upload fees for a 100 GB Hard Drive Archive) -…

Yev from Backblaze here -> Absolutely. They key difference is backup vs. archive. Backblaze was designed as a backup solution, it's intended to be a 1:1 copy of your user data, and if your data set changes we change it on our end as well, with a 30-day history for accidental deletes. We need to reclaim that space to keep costs down, and we're not intended nor designed to be an archive (keeping data forever). Backblaz…

Post by c0nsumer » Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 3:16 AM UTC

cpach wrote: post #142

c0nsumer wrote: post #125

Any of you know how to get your license code for an upgrade? I have the original email from when I bought Arq 4 in 2014, and it contains a license file. This is an XML with sections like 'id' and 'licenseKey' but neither of those are working.

I don’t know, but why not just contact the author? He’s very pleasant to deal with in my experience.

Post by igas » Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 5:31 AM UTC

victorhooi wrote: post #149

Hmm, there's nothing on the announcement about how to upgrade your existing backups? Say you have a large backup stored on S3 or Google Drive - has anybody used this, and can tell me if it upgrades it seamlessly to take advantage of the new features (e.g. LZ4 compression), or if you need to do a fresh upgrade?