sreitshamer

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by sreitshamer 6mo ago
My favorite is "Software development isn't a code production activity, it's a knowledge acquisition activity."
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by sreitshamer 6mo ago
(Arq developer here) Haven't gotten many requests for it at all over the years. I presume it's because there are so many free options for Linux.
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by sreitshamer 6mo ago
(Arq developer here) By default Arq tries to be unobtrusive. Edit your backup plan and slide the “CPU usage” slider all the way to the right to make it go faster.
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by sreitshamer 2y ago
Software development isn't a code-production activity, it's a knowledge-acquisition activity. It involves refactoring and deleting code too. I guess the AI isn't helping with that?
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by sreitshamer 2y ago
Is there a way to mount the sqlite tables as a filesystem?
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by sreitshamer 4y ago
Arq stores the data in content-addressable format. Arq's data format is documented here: https://www.arqbackup.com/documentation/arq7/English.lproj/d... Arq manages the restore process, telling AWS to ma
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by sreitshamer 4y ago
I think maybe you're referring to the original Glacier vault model? Nowadays you can put objects in an S3 bucket (with your own object name and metadata) and set the storage class to Glacier Flexible Retrieval or Glacier Deep Archive.
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by sreitshamer 4y ago
I'm confused by this comment. Arq can store your backups in your own AWS account, using Glacier Deep Archive storage class. It's your own AWS account, so you pay exactly the Deep Archive price.
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by sreitshamer 5y ago
Not sure when you last looked into Glacier, but they did away with the "peak hourly request" fee which could be insane if you restored data too quickly. Pricing is much more reasonable now. You still have to wait hours to download
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by sreitshamer 5y ago
Google Cloud's Archive tier is cheapest to store at about $1.23/TB per month, but downloading is very expensive.
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by sreitshamer 5y ago
Not sure what you mean by "trying the saas way of things". We still sell Arq 7 as a standalone app. It comes with a year of updates. You can choose to renew, or not and keep using the app you bought forever. Similar licensing to P
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by sreitshamer 5y ago
You could also make the Arq backups in your S3 bucket immutable, for more ransomware protection.
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by sreitshamer 5y ago
Console is sluggish for me, but S3 (us-east-1) seems to work fine.
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by sreitshamer 5y ago
There's no need to edit the backup plan. As I wrote in the reddit thread, clear the cache and do a backup. Sorry it's not more clear.
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by sreitshamer 5y ago
Are you maybe referring to Glacier "vaults" (the original Glacier API)? With the old Glacier Vault API you had to initiate an "inventory-retrieval" job with an SNS topic etc. It took days. Painful. But these days you can
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by sreitshamer 5y ago
The "back up and validate" function only downloads all the data if you're using a storage location that doesn't provide checksums (SFTP or NAS/folder). So, it shouldn't be downloading very much if you're u
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by sreitshamer 5y ago
Arq 7 uses the Microsoft Graph API, the one we're supposed to use now.
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by sreitshamer 5y ago
A “you’re about to be charged” email would be friendlier and give the customer a feeling of more control. That’s what we do. (We of course will also refund the charge if you email us after it happens.)
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by sreitshamer 5y ago
(I make Arq, a backup app that supports S3's object-lock API for immutable backups). I can't see how to do incremental backups without using the private key to read the previous backup record. Can you explain how that would work?
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by sreitshamer 5y ago
Arq will encrypt/decrypt the backup data with a key that never leaves your computer. The encryption and data format are documented here: https://www.arqbackup.com/documentation/arq7/English.lproj/d...
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by sreitshamer 5y ago
(Developer behind Arq here) Nowadays many folks have lots of free cloud space in Google Drive/Dropbox/OneDrive and use Arq to store their versioned encrypted backups there, which makes restoring/downloading free.
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by sreitshamer 5y ago
Or stored an a cloud storage provider that supports S3-style object lock.
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by sreitshamer 6y ago
Arq doesn't write recognizable filenames to B2, just checksum-based object identifiers, so it's not an issue for Arq backup data stored at B2.
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by sreitshamer 6y ago
Panic has a really nice approach with their Nova app. They keep updating it all the time; you pay once and get free updates for a year. You can choose at checkout time to stay updated for 50% of new-purchase price each year, or you can choo
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by sreitshamer 6y ago
In the course of building that data compatibility, our plans changed, we think for the better. We wrote about it here: https://www.arqbackup.com/blog/next-up-arq-7/ I'm sorry you feel support isn't respo
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by sreitshamer 6y ago
It's up to you. We hope to officially release Arq 7 by the end of the year. It seems to be very stable already according to the feedback we've gotten so far.
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by sreitshamer 6y ago
OK. I'm sorry you got the impression that I didn't communicate. I answered a shitload of tweets and emails in the days/weeks following the launch. I apologized thousands of times. I scrambled to fix issues at the same time.
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by sreitshamer 6y ago
Did you try Arq 7 at all? People have been happy about it so far. If you're willing to give it a try and provide feedback, I'd be very grateful.
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by sreitshamer 6y ago
I'm very sorry you had that experience. I feel really terrible about it. It's been an extremely stressful 5 months so far. I tried to communicate the best I could about what we were doing -- a blog post, responding to all the redd
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by sreitshamer 7y ago
mailinabox ftw. After the first couple of months I've had zero delivery problems.

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