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I highly recommend the "Arq" [1] commercial program for backing stuff up to these kinds of services. They support most of the big names (AWS, Google, Dropbox,
by chris_st 10y ago
I highly recommend the "Arq" [1] commercial program for backing stuff up to these kinds of services. They support most of the big names (AWS, Google, Dropbox, etc.) and will probably be supporting the new Google options soon.
It does local encryption before sending your data up to the cloud.
Notably Arq restores all macOS permissions/meta-data, and there is an open-source test kit to show whether such a program does so.
It also works on Windows.
I have no relationship with the company, other than as a happy user.
[1] https://www.arqbackup.com https://www.arqbackup.com
- astrostl 10y agoDitto. Amazon Cloud Drive is $60/year for unlimited storage, which makes a nice back-end.
- ghshephard 10y agoLikewise - I can't say enough great things about Arq. In particular, when I moved to Singapore, I was able to really take advantage of the gigabit line I got (for $39/month), and use the S3 storage that Amazon offers in Singapore. Looking forward to using the Google Storage in Singapore as well...
- questionr 10y agoArq sounds almost ideal, except its still intended more for "backup" than "storage". Its more like an Apple Time Machine. From what I read, you can still offload data from your local machine by choosing to "archive" a directory. But thats an extra step and I haven't read how it handles conflicting directory that are created in the future after archiving the original.
- chris_st 10y agoThat's an interesting use case. You ought to email them and ask about it! My goal is just two off-site backups (AWS and Google).
- lobster_johnson 10y agoArq actually already supports the new Google options, as long as you create the bucket manually first via the Google Cloud console.
- sreitshamer 10y agoArq supports coldline now. It also helps with creating buckets and choosing from among the new regional and multi-regional storage classes.