Arq is a Mac utility designed to help you back up your local directories to your Cloud service accounts. The application works with various types of Cloud service accounts, provides you with easy-to-configure settings, and gives you access to a comprehensive help manual.
The first thing you need to do after installing the program on your Mac is to configure the output settings for the backup process. To be more exact, you need to select the preferred Cloud service, enter your account credentials, and choose the directories you wish to back up. Once everything's set, the app will get the job done, saving copies of your local files to the indicated Cloud service account.
The only thing missing from this program is an option to schedule backup tasks. This feature might prove to be of good use especially if you want to back up your local data at a specific time of the day when you're not working on your Mac.
Another disadvantage is the fact that the app occasionally runs slow, especially when altering the options for backup selections (the folders selected for the backup process).
Still, Arq brings you many useful advantages and might come in handy if you own multiple Cloud service accounts for backing up your files.
v5.9 [Jul 27, 2017]
- Fixed an issue where deleting a backup set didn't include deleting all related Glacier objects.
- Fixed an issue where adding a Google Cloud Storage target could cause Arq to freeze if an error occurs talking to Google Cloud Storage.
- Fixed an issue where a transient error during deleting unreferenced objects could cause the task to abort instead of retry.
- Fixed an issue where, if not all items are checked under a "root" folder in the edit-backup-selections window, the root item didn't have a "mixed-case" (hyphen) checkmark.
- Switched to V2 API for getting Dropbox quota info (all other API calls were already V2) because Dropbox retired the V1 API. This may cause issues for Dropbox for Teams users if the Dropbox API doesn't return team space-available information.
Speedtest by Ookla
