Arq 2 (OS X backup-to-S3 software) has been released.

http://www.haystacksoftware.com/blog/2011/08/arq-2-is-out/

by cylo • 15 years ago

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Emore• 15 years ago

Nice! I've been using Arq for some time and it's great for selective backup (I use Backblaze for bulk backups.) Stefan, the developer of Arq, is also quick to reply and very helpful.

_ouxp• 15 years ago

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sreitshamer5• 15 years ago

It's back up, and cached. Sorry about that!

HaloZero2• 15 years ago

Could someone explain the benefit of backing up to S3 as opposed to just a service like Mozy, Backblaze, or Dropbox?

jarin2• 15 years ago

It's probably a little cheaper, plus you have slightly more control over it.

HaloZero2• 15 years ago

I think Backblaze offers unlimited for $6/month, Mozy offers 125GB for $10/month.

That same pricing $0.140 per GB (on S3) is $17.5/month unless I misunderstand S3 pricing.

http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

http://mozy.com/home/pricing/

https://secure.backblaze.com/buy.htm

Dropbox is more expensive but is syncing as opposed to backup.

alwillis• 15 years ago

The major issue seems to be that Arq is able to backup and restore all HFS+ metadata, which several other online backup services don’t. You can test your’s using Backup Bouncer: http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2007/04/27/introducing-backup-bou...

ceejayoz• 15 years ago

I'm quite a bit more confident of Amazon's ability to stick around long-term than a couple of startups.

rkudeshi• 15 years ago

FWIW, Mozy has been owned by Fortune 500 company EMC since 2007.

petrilli• 15 years ago

As with AWS, it's a gamble as to whether it will be there when you need it. I'm always nervous of all-you-can-eat plans. All it takes is a small estimate mistake to blow an entire business plan.

N.B. I've been using Arq since it first came out, and love it 100%. I do not, however, backup my music/video with it. That goes on a removable 2TB safe in a fire safe.

piggity2• 15 years ago

Just use Crashplan - http://www.crashplan.com/

Unlimited backups on one computer for $50/year (USD) - http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/store.vtl

Encrypt your files with your account password, a passphrase, or a local encryption key. Incremental backup and lots of other goodness.

huhtenberg• 15 years ago

^ astroturfing

yanowitz• 15 years ago

Given that the account was just created, I tend to agree. Which is sad, as Crashplan is a genuinely good product (disclosure: I've been using it for 2+ years and am paid up for the next few years). It gives fine grained (up-to-the-minute) off-site backups w/versioning and easy restores (I've only done one-off restores, not full disaster recovery).

I've used it in production and personal environments.

But I hate the idea that they are farming out this kind of astroturfing. Gack.

drothlis• 15 years ago

Arq does incremental backups... but does it do incremental restores? i.e. if I have already restored the backup to another computer, can I later fetch just what has changed? This is the only feature missing from duplicity[1] to make it perfect.

[1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

sreitshamer5• 15 years ago

No, but it's on my to-do list. It'd be awesome for, for example, restoring from an older Time Machine backup (fast) and then merging in the latest Arq backup.

(I wrote Arq)

jmah• 15 years ago

Nice. I checked, and the source to the restore tool has been updated too:

https://github.com/sreitshamer/arq_restore

(I haven't run a test restore with it yet, though.)

Arq 2 (OS X backup-to-S3 software) has been released.

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