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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 Sir_Cmpwn »

sreitshamer wrote: post #10

Bah, I guess hosting a site at digitalocean isn't suitable for HN front page? Even WP super cache isn't saving me.

It should be fine. The problem is more likely that your stack isn't put together very well. Don't throw more hardware/dollars at it, refine your stack.

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

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Post by ghshephard »

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 crashplan/backblaze "everything for $5" come with massive caveats (like deleting backups of Hard Drives that haven't been plugged in for 6 months - I've got Arq Backups of Hard Drives that I haven't plugged in for a couple years, safe and sound) - and I've never had an AWS backup bill in excess of $3.00, ARQ does a wicked good job of keeping your backups on a tight budget.

Also - awesome win for ARQ - when I moved to Singapore, I simply added a AWS Singapore S3 Bucket and wowza - fast backups on my gigabit ($49/month) link from MyRepublic. Really feel like I'm living in the future.

I think once I switch away from Aperture over to Photos, which presumably has a rock solid backup to iCloud photos, then simply doing a quarterly backup or so with CarbonCopyCloner + Arq to AWS + DataBackup to USB key will have my OS X backups covered.

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

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Post by blue1 »

If 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).

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

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Post by pdgwien »

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.

Where do you see $50/year? From what I can gather, that is a one-time fee.

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

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Post by tuix »

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.

It's not per year, it's for current major version (if you don't want lifetime upgrade option).

edit: You get a free upgrade if there is a major version released within 90 days of your order (if you don't order lifetime upgrade of course)

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

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Post by mike »

blue1 wrote: post #15

If 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).

Either of SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription... or Carbon Copy Cloner https://bombich.com/ is great for making a complete, bootable copy of a drive.
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