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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

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Post by dfbrown »

willtheperson wrote: post #28

Can someone tell me why I shouldn't be using BitTorrent Sync as a multi-location backup plan? In other words, can someone sell me on the idea of paying for AWS storage when I have dirt cheap storage around my house and even a remote location that I can stuff a huge drive in.

I can't think of any reason you would back up to AWS if you already have an offsite backup solution, unless you don't think your offsite backup location is reliable enough.

Re: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier

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Post by kondro »

zeckalpha wrote: post #45

But... Tarsnap...

I love Tarsnap, but $0.30/GB for Tarsnap backup is very different from $0.01/GB for Glacier cold storage.

For my own Mac I backup to a sort of off-site NAS with TimeMachine, which is fine for all but the worst-case, meteor to the city situations. However, Glacier makes a perfect option for me to deal with this actual worst-case scenario.

Re: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier

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Post by veidr »

tunesmith wrote: post #17

I've regularly been curious about this, but Crashplan has a stable reputation and seems much less expensive for large backups. For those who have researched Crashplan, why did you choose Arq instead?

I have used CrashPlan for my sister and parents' computers (because I'm a cheap asshole, mainly... S3 was too expensive for me to pay for on their behalf... now that Arq 4 supports Glacier well and other cheap/free options, I will be switching them to Arq next time I go back to US and A...).

When CrashPlan works it is OK (and only just OK -- it is sill a bloated Java service that runs and backs up slowly, with a poor UI to boot).

But in my experience, and that of many others I know, CrashPlan has MAJOR OUTAGES on a regular basis. Like the app won't connect to CrashPlan backup service for DAYS/WEEKS at a stretch.

To their credit, at least CrashPlan doesn't delete the evidence of such outages from their support forum the way that companies like Apple do:

http://goo.gl/sl4zx ← link requires login but you can login with google etc

I think on the Mac, Arq is the best backup thing going right now.

Re: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier

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Post by sreitshamer »

egonschiele wrote: post #44

Could you change the upgrade system on macs please? I got a message telling me to install the latest update -- so I did. I was on a paid version of Arq 3, and now I'm on a trial version of Arq 4 :-/

Didn't the upgrade text explain that it was a paid upgrade? I tried to make that as clear as I could.

If you want to stick with Arq 3 you can. Delete Arq 4. Download Arq 3 (http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/Arq_3.3.4.zip). Launch Arq 3. You'll have to find your old backup set under "Other Backup Sets", select it, and click the "Adopt This Backup Set" button. Sorry for the hassle.

Re: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier

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Post by rsc »

I discovered Arq a couple years ago and have been using it ever since. I highly recommend it. The thing that sold me was that the file format is documented and I was able to write code to read the backups directly. So even if somehow Arq does disappear, I can still read my data. http://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/rsc/arq

Re: Arq 4 is out – Mac backup to S3/Glacier

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Post by tlrobinson »

willtheperson wrote: post #28

Can someone tell me why I shouldn't be using BitTorrent Sync as a multi-location backup plan? In other words, can someone sell me on the idea of paying for AWS storage when I have dirt cheap storage around my house and even a remote location that I can stuff a huge drive in.

If deleting/modifying a file at one location results in deletion/modification of a file on the "backup", then it's not a backup.
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