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On the Mac, Dropbox doesn't do so well with restoring metadata: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/blog/2010/06/the-importance-of-metadata-on-the-mac/ http://www.h

On the Mac, Dropbox doesn't do so well with restoring metadata: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/blog/2010/06/the-importance-of-metadata-on-the-mac/ http://www.haystacksoftware.com/blog/2010/06/the-importance-... http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/dropbox-backup-bouncer-test.txt http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/dropbox-backup-bouncer-t... (Disclaimer -- I write backup software: http://haystacksoftware.com/arq/ http://haystacksoftware.com/arq/)

lovskogen 16y ago
What does this mean for regular people?
- sreitshamer 16y ago
  I tried to explain that in the blog post. Some quick examples: If you back up a Mac app using Dropbox and then restore it, nothing happens when you double-click on it because the executable file within it wasn't set to be executable. If you restore your "downloaded files" with Dropbox, the "quarantine" metadata won't be there so you won't get the "This is an application downloaded from the Internet" warning. If you restore a "bundle" (e.g. an iPhoto Library) the bundle won't look like a single file anymore -- it'll look like a folder; double-clicking on it would open the folder instead of launching iPhoto. Modification timestamps are all set to the current time, so if you used that information to find things in the past you're out of luck.
huhtenberg 16y ago
Arq looks nice. I wasn't able to digest the (S3) pricing table, but all in all it leaves a favourable impression of a well-designed and well thought out program.
- sreitshamer 16y ago
  Thanks! S3 pricing is confusing. It boils down to this: $.10/GB per month for storage, plus an insignificant amount of transaction costs; After Nov 1, data transfer to S3 will be $.10 per GB; Restores (data transfer from S3) are $.10 per GB (1 GB data transfer from S3 free per month).

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On the Mac, Dropbox doesn't do so well with restoring metadata: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/blog/2010/06/the-importance-of-metadata-on-the-mac/ http://www.h

by sreitshamer 16y ago

lovskogen 16y ago
What does this mean for regular people?
- sreitshamer 16y ago
  I tried to explain that in the blog post. Some quick examples: If you back up a Mac app using Dropbox and then restore it, nothing happens when you double-click on it because the executable file within it wasn't set to be executable. If you restore your "downloaded files" with Dropbox, the "quarantine" metadata won't be there so you won't get the "This is an application downloaded from the Internet" warning. If you restore a "bundle" (e.g. an iPhoto Library) the bundle won't look like a single file anymore -- it'll look like a folder; double-clicking on it would open the folder instead of launching iPhoto. Modification timestamps are all set to the current time, so if you used that information to find things in the past you're out of luck.
huhtenberg 16y ago
Arq looks nice. I wasn't able to digest the (S3) pricing table, but all in all it leaves a favourable impression of a well-designed and well thought out program.
- sreitshamer 16y ago
  Thanks! S3 pricing is confusing. It boils down to this: $.10/GB per month for storage, plus an insignificant amount of transaction costs; After Nov 1, data transfer to S3 will be $.10 per GB; Restores (data transfer from S3) are $.10 per GB (1 GB data transfer from S3 free per month).