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It's unfortunate that Arq forces you to archive in their proprietary format. That locks you in to the tool.
by copperx 11y ago
It's unfortunate that Arq forces you to archive in their proprietary format. That locks you in to the tool.
- TkTech 11y agoNo it doesn't. They've had an open-source CLI tool since at least 2013. https://github.com/sreitshamer/arq_restore https://github.com/sreitshamer/arq_restore
- asymptotic 11y agoI was also concerned about this when I was looking into Arq, so I wrote a cross-platform restoration tool that'll also work on Windows and Linux (not just Mac): https://github.com/asimihsan/arqinator https://github.com/asimihsan/arqinator This is purely based on the author's excellent description of the format in his arq_restore tool: https://www.arqbackup.com/s3_data_format.txt https://www.arqbackup.com/s3_data_format.txt
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- arcdigital 11y agoI just started using Arq, but it looks like the format is documented here https://www.arqbackup.com/s3_data_format.txt https://www.arqbackup.com/s3_data_format.txt and there's some open source tools that can work with the format. https://github.com/asimihsan/arqinator https://github.com/asimihsan/arqinator and https://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/rsc/arq/arqfs https://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/rsc/arq/arqfs