![]() They are being called sync services after all. For example, instead of configuring destinations in the preferences, everything is shown in the main window for configuring backups and restoring files: More features: Configure a single backup plan to include items from SMB network. Dropbox (and iCloud) works in both directions. Arq 7 has a native user interface, like Arq 5 but much more intuitive. Oh, and before someone is talking about Dropbox as a backup service:Īrq works in one direction. Using just the "cloud" for backups is not a good strategy. Because when your computer fail (and yes, it will fail) your only backup is no longer a backup, it's your only copy. I use two local backups (backing up via Time Machine and Superduper) and Arq as online backup. The most important is: use multiple backups. Here is a good blog post by the Arq developer: I do recommend you however to invest in a password manage first (like 1Password) because there's a lot to remember: the encryption password (forget it and your data is lost), the license key to Arq, the Amazon account login details and the so called Access key and Secret accesss key generated by your S3 account. ![]() Familiar features like Growl notifications and auto-update via Sparkle are present. I also like that it is Mac-only meaning the UI looks like the standard OSX UI and not some Windows port. Arq (and the storage provider Amazon) doesn't promise that. If a service promises "unlimited" storage for a limited price, then they are lying. So the speed will always be the same (ignoring other factors like your internet provider ofc) and you can upload thousands of GBs. And Amazon doesn't care how much or how often you upload data because you pay a fixed price per GB. I like it because the encryption is done on your computer and not on Amazon's servers.
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