Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier
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Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier
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Re: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier
#2Arq has been part of my backup systems since version 2. This upgrade looks very good. Especially the expansion beyond relying solely on Amazon S3 and use number of other services including SSH.
Having used the past Glacier support, the new S3 Glacier Lifecycle will be much better.
I am wondering about when (if?) the open source arq_restore and format documentation will be updated.
Re: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier
#3Wonderful piece of software - highly recommended. Awesome upgrade also, have been waiting for S3 alternatives for a long time.
It's unfortunate a few things appear to be backwards - why can you include wifi APs, yet not exclude them - despite the example suggesting you exclude from tethered devices.
Likewise, why can you email on success, but not failure.
Re: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier
#4I'm using Arq since 2011 to backup my most important data to Amazon S3+Glacier and can highly recommend it.
Today v4 has been released and comes with new storage options (GreenQloud, DreamObjects, Google Cloud Storage, SFTP aka your own server), multiple backup targets, unified budget across S3 and S3/Glacier, Email notifications and many more clever features.
Re: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier
#5Big fan, the inclusion of DreamHost's DreamObjects is a huge improvement also. In most cases they are cheaper than Amazon's S3 storage. Still more expensive than Glacier...but DreamObjects doesn't have any of the crazy slow retrieval times or costs that Glacier does.
Re: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier
#6I love the addition of SFTP, and I hope to buy the update soon.
Can anyone recommend a SFTP backup provider?
My Arq backups are designed to be worst-case. I have other, local backup options in case of failure. I was using Glacier, but I ran into Arq3 sync problems and I need to re-upload all my data. Glacier is very slow from where I live. I assume SFTP will be a bit faster.
Re: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier
#7I was looking at Arq the other day and couldn't find if it had a bootable backup feature (like CC Cloner). Anyone know something about this?
Re: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier
#8I love the addition of SFTP, and I hope to buy the update soon. Can anyone recommend a SFTP backup provider? My Arq backups are designed to be worst-case. I have other, local backup options in case of failure. I was using Glacier, but I ran into Arq3 sync problems and I need to re-upload all my data. Glacier is very slow from where I live. I assume SFTP will be a bit faster.
If you don't need a turnkey solution I'd just go with a cheap server provider like OVH/Online.net/Hetzner and set up an SFTP server there.
Re: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier
#9Site is down/slow for me. Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Re: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier
#10I was looking at Arq the other day and couldn't find if it had a bootable backup feature (like CC Cloner). Anyone know something about this?
Arq does not have bootable backups. It is primarily for long term off site versioned backups. Look at SuperDuper or CCC for a full metal bootable backup.
I generally prefer SuperDuper for its simplicity, and recommend it to most people.
CCC is not really harder to use, but presents a bunch more options which most people don't need and with which they may get into trouble. One great feature of CCC is the ability to do bootable backup to a remote volume. I have my MacBook set up to backup to a server in this fashion. However, this requires you to configure your remote server with root SSH access via certificates.