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I'm looking into supporting Glacier in Arq. It sure is cheap -- $10/month for a terabyte.

by sreitshamer 14y ago

ianlevesque 14y ago
That would be fantastic.
sbarre 14y ago
As a happy customer, I'm glad to hear this as well!
leejoramo 14y ago
Arq is great backup software. I would view inclusion of Glacier support as a worthy paid upgrade. Arq is the pinnacle of my rather large backup pyramid which also includes: Dropbox, Superduper, Crashplan, rsync, SVN/GIT and more.
- chmars 14y ago
  In an earlier version of Arq, there was no possibility to see which data was actually selected for backup (and which not). Has Arq become more user-friendly?
  - ghshephard 14y ago
    I'm a current user of ARQ, and it has, in my opinion (compared to Backblaze) a phenomenally user friendly description of exactly what is being backed up, and when, and when something was added, or modified.
backwardm 14y ago
Just FYI, I too would view Glacier support as something worth a normal upgrade fee. I am using Arq more as a long-term back-it-up-and-forget-about-it storage solution anyway, so it seems like a natural direction to go for a user like me (same strategy, but even lower cost). That said, I am reminded that I should not forget about the Arq backups and do a few test restores sometime. :)
exhilaration 14y ago
That's Mac-only, right? Can anyone suggest an equivalent Windows tool for backing up to Amazon?
- brunoqc 14y ago
  Jungledisk, Duplicaty (LGPL)
  - coverband 14y ago
    That would be Duplicati -- my favorite backup utility.
- sreitshamer 14y ago
  There's Cloudberry Backup. I haven't used it myself, and I'm told it's not versioned backup, but it backs up to your own AWS account.
jordibunster 14y ago
I think the key here is not to just provide a toggle for using Glacier instead of S3, but to have the historical snapshots migrated to Glacier from S3 and deleted every 90+ days. I will gladly pay more money for Arq again.
- sreitshamer 14y ago
  I think it would be more like choosing Glacier instead of S3 on a per-folder basis. Arq is incremental backup. The data structure is similar to git's http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/s3_data_format.txt http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/s3_data_format.txt Unless your files change a lot, keeping the latest backup version in S3 and previous versions in Glacier would mean that most of your backup data are still in S3 I think. Right?
- sintaks 14y ago
  Yes. The forthcoming S3 Lifecycle Policy API additions should allow for exactly this, automatically.
fesja 14y ago
I will start using Arq when it supports Glacier. When will it be ready ;)
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christiannaths 14y ago
Please!!! I'm a very happy Arq customer, this update would be awesome!
legoforte 14y ago
Wow, yes, please do! I've never used Arq, and at the S3 prices it doesn't make sense on top of my Dropbox. But with Glacier, I'd love to be able to back up my entire HDD off-site for $5/month, and Arq looks like a good way to do that.
faker 14y ago
Do IT! Fred
carterschonwald 14y ago
As long as you promise to have the glacier update be a free one, I am buying an Arq license this evening the moment you tell me it will be so! :)
revertts 14y ago
I'll buy Arq immediately when Glacier gets added
- jackjeff 14y ago
  Me too. If it was not for the recurring cost of S3, I would have bought ARG already. It's brilliant software.
bkmacy 14y ago
I'm a happy Arq customer today and I'd pay for an upgrade to Glacier! Longer term I'm sure you will have competitors on Glacier that you will be competing with so best to move sooner than later.
stream 14y ago
Arq, please add support for Glacier. - Happy customer.
prehnra 14y ago
Yes please!

I'm looking into supporting Glacier in Arq. It sure is cheap -- $10/month for a terabyte.

ianlevesque 14y ago

That would be fantastic.

sbarre 14y ago

As a happy customer, I'm glad to hear this as well!

leejoramo 14y ago

Arq is great backup software. I would view inclusion of Glacier support as a worthy paid upgrade. Arq is the pinnacle of my rather large backup pyramid which also includes: Dropbox, Superduper, Crashplan, rsync, SVN/GIT and more.

chmars 14y ago
In an earlier version of Arq, there was no possibility to see which data was actually selected for backup (and which not). Has Arq become more user-friendly?
- ghshephard 14y ago
  I'm a current user of ARQ, and it has, in my opinion (compared to Backblaze) a phenomenally user friendly description of exactly what is being backed up, and when, and when something was added, or modified.

backwardm 14y ago

Just FYI, I too would view Glacier support as something worth a normal upgrade fee. I am using Arq more as a long-term back-it-up-and-forget-about-it storage solution anyway, so it seems like a natural direction to go for a user like me (same strategy, but even lower cost). That said, I am reminded that I should not forget about the Arq backups and do a few test restores sometime. :)

exhilaration 14y ago

That's Mac-only, right? Can anyone suggest an equivalent Windows tool for backing up to Amazon?

brunoqc 14y ago
Jungledisk, Duplicaty (LGPL)
- coverband 14y ago
  That would be Duplicati -- my favorite backup utility.
sreitshamer 14y ago
There's Cloudberry Backup. I haven't used it myself, and I'm told it's not versioned backup, but it backs up to your own AWS account.

jordibunster 14y ago

I think the key here is not to just provide a toggle for using Glacier instead of S3, but to have the historical snapshots migrated to Glacier from S3 and deleted every 90+ days. I will gladly pay more money for Arq again.

sreitshamer 14y ago
I think it would be more like choosing Glacier instead of S3 on a per-folder basis. Arq is incremental backup. The data structure is similar to git's http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/s3_data_format.txt http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/s3_data_format.txt Unless your files change a lot, keeping the latest backup version in S3 and previous versions in Glacier would mean that most of your backup data are still in S3 I think. Right?
sintaks 14y ago
Yes. The forthcoming S3 Lifecycle Policy API additions should allow for exactly this, automatically.

fesja 14y ago

I will start using Arq when it supports Glacier. When will it be ready ;)

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christiannaths 14y ago

Please!!! I'm a very happy Arq customer, this update would be awesome!

legoforte 14y ago

Wow, yes, please do! I've never used Arq, and at the S3 prices it doesn't make sense on top of my Dropbox. But with Glacier, I'd love to be able to back up my entire HDD off-site for $5/month, and Arq looks like a good way to do that.

faker 14y ago

Do IT! Fred

carterschonwald 14y ago

As long as you promise to have the glacier update be a free one, I am buying an Arq license this evening the moment you tell me it will be so! :)

revertts 14y ago

I'll buy Arq immediately when Glacier gets added

jackjeff 14y ago
Me too. If it was not for the recurring cost of S3, I would have bought ARG already. It's brilliant software.

bkmacy 14y ago

I'm a happy Arq customer today and I'd pay for an upgrade to Glacier! Longer term I'm sure you will have competitors on Glacier that you will be competing with so best to move sooner than later.

stream 14y ago

Arq, please add support for Glacier. - Happy customer.

prehnra 14y ago

Yes please!