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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 stronglikedan »

victorhooi wrote: post #4

Argh, the website is down...lol: "Error establishing a database connection"

It appears that there may be an issue with just their blog. The main site[0], and most of its links, works for me.

[0] https://www.arqbackup.com/

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

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Post by vog »

stronglikedan wrote: post #21
victorhooi wrote: post #4

Argh, the website is down...lol: "Error establishing a database connection"

It appears that there may be an issue with just their blog. The main site[0], and most of its links, works for me. [0] https://www.arqbackup.com/

At the moment, this site takes ~30 seconds for every single request. But at least it works at all.

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

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Post by ghshephard »

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 a one time fee for really awesome software. Upgrades are every couple years, and only about $25. My backup bills on AWS have never been more than $3/month (I only backup my actual documents) - and you have total control - don't have to worry about the policy engine at BackBlaze/CrashPlan arbitrarily deleting old hard drives that haven't been plugged in.

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

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Post by krrrh »

amelius wrote: post #14

How is this, from a technical point of view, more advanced than running rsync in a regular fashion (with hardlinks to keep cheap snapshots)? Just wondering about the technical aspects.

Client-side encryption is a big one. It also has a passable gui which can be helpful when restoring files, and does a pretty good job of scheduling and throttling upload speeds.

I had an older version that I upgraded to 4.x because they added support for uploading backups to Dropbox and I was already paying for a Dropbox pro account that had plenty of unused space. The ability to have versioned backups on various cloud services that don't support rsync is a big plus.

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

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Post by ultramancool »

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.

Just throw it behind CloudFlare quick, they'll cache it and you'll be set.

They're pretty reputable for free speech and fighting for their customers too, so I trust them to a decent degree.

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