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I'm considering switching from Backblaze to Arq to backup personal files (photos, etc.) from my rMBP. Anybody have any experience doing this and can recommend o
by berberous 12y ago
I'm considering switching from Backblaze to Arq to backup personal files (photos, etc.) from my rMBP. Anybody have any experience doing this and can recommend one vs. the other? I have a 500GB drive, probably only 300GB to backup. Backblaze is only $5/month, and let's you encrypt, so I'm wondering if it's even worth switching.
- moe 12y agoI'm using Arq with DreamObjects currently (hope Google support will be added soon), backing up two laptops and a desktop, total backup size ~3T. I can hardly recommend it high enough. The only minor niggles that I've run into were: - If you have a very large directory (hundreds of thousands of files) then opening the backup-catalog can give you the beachball for minutes. However this really only happens for ginormous directories and is easily resolved by splitting the job into a few smaller ones. - If you're low on diskspace then the temp files that Arq creates during a backup can drive you over the edge and into a disk-full situation. Other than that it has been rock-solid for me, the author really knows what he's doing.