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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 jarrodatCode42 »

jonaswouters wrote: post #172
jarrodatCode42 wrote: post #132

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Hello Everyone, Wanted to jump in here to confirm. This policy only affects devices that have not connected to CrashPlan Central in 6 months or longer. This does not affect volumes that have not connected to the device in that period of time. (i.e. an external hard drive that has not connected in 6 months.) Additionally, there is no minimum connection time for local CrashPlan backups. It’s important for CrashPlan use…

Is this also the case for crashplan business or PROe? (ceejay in europe).

Since the infrastructure for CrashPlan's backup engine is the same between our Business/Consumer clients, we recommend that all users routinely connect their devices to the backup destinations. That being said, this policy only affects CrashPlan for Home subscribers at this time.

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

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Post by jwr »

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).

I had nothing but performance problems with CrashPlan, so Arq was a significant improvement. But that's setting the bar low.

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

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Post by rsync »

Strom wrote: post #163
rsync wrote: post #138

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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." 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 ?

Yeap, most if not the overwhelming majority of backup services work like that. Some like Mozy have as low as a 30 day counter. [1] -- [1] At least they had that 30 days limit a few years ago, I haven't used them in a while.

Well, I know one that doesn't work like that :)

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

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Post by jibsen »

The Mac version has gotten a lot of good response, so I tried installing the Windows version. It feels a bit like a beta sadly.

  - Backups to local folder do not work
  - Scheduled backups don't always run until you open the GUI
  - Open log viewer before any backups have been performed crashes the app
  - File-Exit does nothing
  - Wizard adds whole C:\ to first destination
  - Doesn't seem to backup (all) locked files
I've reported all of these, and the author seems responsive, so I hope it gets better.
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