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I switched to ARQ (https://www.arqbackup.com/ https://www.arqbackup.com/) a while back after a near miss with a hard drive failure, and think its an amazing pro
by cascom 8y ago
I switched to ARQ (https://www.arqbackup.com/ https://www.arqbackup.com/) a while back after a near miss with a hard drive failure, and think its an amazing product - the key elements to me are that:
1. It is storage location agnostic (backup to a usb, external HD, network HD, dropbox, amazon, etc)
2. your backup data is encrypted locally before being backed up to any medium
What's great is that i can back up one set of data to an external hard dive manually as needed, another set of data to say dropbox on a nightly basis, and another set to a B2 bucket on a monthly basis (all of which are encrypted so i retain my privacy/data security).
Edit: i suppose that it is a "third party service" but i think it reliably solves for the lock-in and privacy problems you reference
- tothrowaway 8y agoI use arq as well. Some things I don't like about it are: 1. There's no information about what it is doing (which file are currently being backing up, what's the current upload rate, what's the estimated completion time, how much data is left, etc) 2. Large files (like VM images, or crypto containers) block small files from being backed up. Essentially, your backup frequency can be no more than largest_file/upload_rate (well, it's more complicated than that because of deduplication)
- cascom 8y ago#1 the information is limited, but it is available https://goo.gl/images/9zCMNR https://goo.gl/images/9zCMNR #2 is an issue I've encountered as well
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