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Arq is online backup for the Mac using Amazon S3. It backs up and faithfully restores all the special metadata of Mac files that other products don't, including resource forks, ACLs, and creator codes.
Arq works like Time Machine, except you don't have to remember to plug in your external hard drive. Following the initial backup, Arq automatically makes incremental backups every hour, every day, uploading just the files that have changed since your last backup. Arq keeps hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything
Arq works like Time Machine, except you don't have to remember to plug in your external hard drive. Following the initial backup, Arq automatically makes incremental backups every hour, every day, uploading just the files that have changed since your last backup. Arq keeps hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything
What's New
Version 2.7:
Fixed Bugs
- Fixed an issue where changes to extended attributes weren't being backed up if the file data didn't change as well.
- Fixed a crash that happens after transient (usually network) errors occur during restoring.
- Fixed an issue where unencrypted content-type info was being written to S3.
- Reduced the number of filesystem calls to improve backup performance and reduce load.
Version 2.7:
Fixed Bugs
- Fixed an issue where changes to extended attributes weren't being backed up if the file data didn't change as well.
- Fixed a crash that happens after transient (usually network) errors occur during restoring.
- Fixed an issue where unencrypted content-type info was being written to S3.
- Reduced the number of filesystem calls to more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
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Arq is online backup for the Mac using Amazon S3. It backs up and faithfully restores all the special metadata of Mac files that other products don't, including resource forks, ACLs, and creator codes.
Arq works like Time Machine, except you don't have to remember to plug in your external hard drive. Following the initial backup, Arq automatically makes incremental backups every hour, every day, uploading just the files that have changed since your last backup. Arq keeps hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month.
Arq lets you set a budget for S3 storage, and it automatically drops the oldest backups to keep within the budget.
Arq backs up everything with no limits. It backs up files of any size, external drives, and network drives.
Arq "de-duplicates" your backups, never storing the same file twice in your S3 account.
Arq works like Time Machine, except you don't have to remember to plug in your external hard drive. Following the initial backup, Arq automatically makes incremental backups every hour, every day, uploading just the files that have changed since your last backup. Arq keeps hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month.
Arq lets you set a budget for S3 storage, and it automatically drops the oldest backups to keep within the budget.
Arq backs up everything with no limits. It backs up files of any size, external drives, and network drives.
Arq "de-duplicates" your backups, never storing the same file twice in your S3 account.
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Nardrat reviewed on 22 Apr 2012
So on the downside, Arq, in practice, hasn’t been working like time machine; it hasn’t automatically make incremental backups every hour/day; it has uploaded far more than just the files that have changed since the last backup; it hasn’t keep previous backups in the way that the developer claims.
On the upside however, it does everything else the developer says it does, the developer provides good and honest support and metadata restoration of files that Arq does manage to backup can’t be beaten.
As such I can only recommend Arq for the purpose of backing up only essential files and folders and not all of your data.
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my_manzana reviewed on 03 Feb 2012
Here's why (in no particular order):
1. Value - One time purchase of a $29 license, no recurring subscription.
2. Lightweight - not bloated or buggy and works well.
3. Security - Arq is just a nice GUI app to get your stuff on S3, the developer has no access to your data
4. Reliability - After reading about issues with other popular online backup services (Carbonite, Crashplan), and knowing the stability of Amazon S3, it was easy to chose Arq.
5. It has almost everything I want, and one of the options I would like to see, the developer is already looking to add (optional backup to external HDD)
In regards to anyone questioning the S3 pricing and how its not a flat rate like other backup providers -
My current S3 costs are comparable to other online backup providers, but if I add more data and wind up paying more, I don't care, my data is worth more than $60-$70 a year. Isn't your data worth it as well?
P.S. Thanks MacUpdate, Arq went on sale right when I started testing it....$19.00? I couldn't buy it fast enough.
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Xe89 reviewed on 03 Feb 2012
Really easy to use also. Just add a folder and it is send to the magic cloud. Hasn't crashed or anything.
The competitors offers "unlimited" online backup for a small fee, I do not really trust them. I hope I can trust Arq the day my computer and local backups get stolen or burn up.
PS. Nice icon :)
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appleHQ reviewed on 03 Feb 2012
It saved my a** countless times. Takes a few seconds to recover an overwritten file etc.
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kpublik reviewed on 04 Jan 2012
Up to now, I've felt the product and support were excellent, but I'm greatly disappointed that, to date, there has still not been a proactive hot-fix, or notification from the author warning that some users may be at risk of the type of data loss that I experienced.
Fortunately, Arq is only part of my overall backup strategy, but I could have been in a really bad place if it was all I had.
Just to be clear, 2.4 itself works fine, but if you upgraded from 2.x to 2.4, there seems to be a risk. The "fix" for those that upgraded from 2.x is a simple manual process. Contact Arq support for details.
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I'm glad that such a major issue has both been officially acknowledged and resolved, but it should have happened faster, IMO.
I continue to use Arq because, developer missteps aside, it really is a great product.
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Zo219 reviewed on 08 Dec 2011
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Bigboysdad reviewed on 22 Oct 2011
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Donperreault reviewed on 06 Sep 2011
When I first tried Arq I was impressed with the Amazon S3 features. Arq is simple to use, you just pick the folders you want to backup and Arq does the rest. What is really nice about Arq is you can use the reduced redundancy which is cheaper or you tell Arq how much you want to spend backing up your data each month and when you reach your storage limit Arq will delete the oldest of the files. Arq works very similar to Time Machine in that it keeps multiple backups until you run out of storage. However, the user sets how much storage he needs or how much he wants to pay and Arq takes care of the rest.
I highly recommend this application. As a mater of fact I have added it to my favorites list of applications that I install immediately on a new machine or clean install along with Launchbar, Keyboard Maestro & 1Password.
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Dai Yi reviewed on 23 Aug 2011
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