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How much data are you backing up? The compression and deduplication seem pretty good in Arq. My monthly AWS (and now Google Nearline) bill is usually around $2,

by LVB 11y ago

How much data are you backing up? The compression and deduplication seem pretty good in Arq. My monthly AWS (and now Google Nearline) bill is usually around $2, so I hit the breakeven point vs the $5/month services pretty quickly.

yoz-y 11y ago
My current backup is around 300 Gigs. I see the big advantage of Arq (over Backblaze) is the fact that you can choose your host. However their own hosting solution for $10/mo with a 250GB data cap is quite expensive. I can see that for smaller amounts of data Arq is more interesting, especially since it also stores history (which Backblaze does not).
- chipotle_coyote 11y ago
  It's worth noting that Arq can back up to Amazon Cloud Drive, which offers unlimited storage for $59.99 a year. As soon as they offered that I switched from Glacier storage; Cloud Driver is faster, cheaper and less fiddly.
  - mobiuscog 11y ago
    the pricing is great for the US... not so good for the rest of the world (for example: https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/pricing?ref_=cd_home_plans_pricing https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/pricing?ref_=cd_home_pla...)
    - reiichiroh 11y ago
      For Canadians, it's $60 CAD.
    - cpach 11y ago
      That’s weird. I live in Sweden and I was able to sign up for the $59.99 unlimited plan just by surfing to https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home
  - yoz-y 11y ago
    That is quite good! Unfortunately, in France there is no Unlimited Everything plan. The prices are similar to the UK (comment from mobiuscog). However there is one last quirk I have with Arq + Hosting Service. If you need to retrieve your backup _fast_ you will have to reach for a paid service such as AWS Snowball which seems quite expensive. I can't to seem to find more recent information about them shipping smaller disks, just some old articles.
- LVB 11y ago
  I didn't even know they offered that until now. I viewed the prime advantage of Arq was selecting your host. And really that is "hosts", since you can have multiple backup sets and different hosts. Stuff that I often want to retrieve I might have on Google Drive as well as one of the "cold storage" options.

by LVB 11y ago

yoz-y 11y ago

My current backup is around 300 Gigs. I see the big advantage of Arq (over Backblaze) is the fact that you can choose your host. However their own hosting solution for $10/mo with a 250GB data cap is quite expensive. I can see that for smaller amounts of data Arq is more interesting, especially since it also stores history (which Backblaze does not).

chipotle_coyote 11y ago
It's worth noting that Arq can back up to Amazon Cloud Drive, which offers unlimited storage for $59.99 a year. As soon as they offered that I switched from Glacier storage; Cloud Driver is faster, cheaper and less fiddly.
- mobiuscog 11y ago
  the pricing is great for the US... not so good for the rest of the world (for example: https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/pricing?ref_=cd_home_plans_pricing https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/pricing?ref_=cd_home_pla...)
  - reiichiroh 11y ago
    For Canadians, it's $60 CAD.
  - cpach 11y ago
    That’s weird. I live in Sweden and I was able to sign up for the $59.99 unlimited plan just by surfing to https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home
- yoz-y 11y ago
  That is quite good! Unfortunately, in France there is no Unlimited Everything plan. The prices are similar to the UK (comment from mobiuscog). However there is one last quirk I have with Arq + Hosting Service. If you need to retrieve your backup _fast_ you will have to reach for a paid service such as AWS Snowball which seems quite expensive. I can't to seem to find more recent information about them shipping smaller disks, just some old articles.
LVB 11y ago
I didn't even know they offered that until now. I viewed the prime advantage of Arq was selecting your host. And really that is "hosts", since you can have multiple backup sets and different hosts. Stuff that I often want to retrieve I might have on Google Drive as well as one of the "cold storage" options.