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>Well, you could actually write your own code to read the files, since the format is open. I think the parent's point was not vendor lock-in but rather, that p
by statictype 17y ago
>Well, you could actually write your own code to read the files, since the format is open.
I think the parent's point was not vendor lock-in but rather, that publishing the source code to your particular implementation would lend more credibility to it since anyone can inspect it and verify that it does what it says it does.
- sreitshamer 17y agoRight, but with Arq, unlike most online backup offerings, you have direct access to the files being stored online (they're in your S3 account). So you can verify that Arq says what it does because you can look at the results.
- DavidSJ 17y agoWith source code, you can reason about edge cases. No matter how many tests you do, you can never catch all of these.