Everything else gets saved to a shared disk. My main computer has finished it’s backup, which is unsurprising since I only needed it to do the desktop. It took me a few tries to be sure of what it was doing, and many of my users would be confused and need a lot of hand holding, unless they just use the defaults (which could be ok for most people). If you want to re-include something, you have to scroll through a list of explicit path names and filters (many of which are defaults in the app) and subtract them, then possibly go back into exclude to re-exclude some of the subfolders. Then if you go into Exclude again, it only shows the folders that are being backed up. You have to explicitly exclude files/folders by path (which fortunately can be done in bulk in an Open dialog with command-click selection) or add filters (only simple ones based on path/file names). By default, they use the account password as the encryption password so they can reset it for you (or let a nation state bludgeon them into resetting it so they can get access.) There’s no option for two factor auth, so you really should use the separate encrypt password, which would limit any malicious damage to denial of service by wiping out the files.įile selection is awkward compared to Crashplan or most Mac backup software. Presumably they’re using a hash for that. Once set, it’s set for all computers that use the account. They’re in northeast CA, which while better than most of the left coast, is still not far enough from plate tectonics effects to make me happy.Īlso in the Advanced settings, you can set a separate encryption password. This was one reason why I dithered into inactivity about whether to use B2. If you open the advance options when you set up an account, you can choose between Eastern US servers or Western US servers which is great, since I want the backup to be completely out of region. It installs a menubar widget so you can see how it’s doing even with the app closed, which is nice. But it would be nice to have it in one place to make it easier to keep an eye on it. I was able to work around it by running it on my server (2011 mini) as well as on my primary mac since it doesn’t limit the number of computers you connect from. This is odd in a program that’s aimed at end users and is only available for Macs so far. (I use AFP since it’s about 20% faster than SMB.) Arq insists on a UNC path, which seems to be a windows thing. It couldn’t see my shared drives, even if I turned on SMB. I’ve installed Arq Cloud Backup in trial mode and it’s chugging away. I have hard drives off site for lesser disasters though they don’t get rotated as often as they should, and I’m starting to collect the most critical stuff such as house papers onto SD cards so I can keep them in the go bags, and maybe a frequently updated one in my pocket. In that scenario, having a backup mailed wouldn’t help anyway. It will take the pacific northwet at least a few months to even partially recover from a big earthquake. For me (even with slow DSL) it’s less of an issue, since the online backup is the last-resort regional disaster backup. This would certainly be a problem when it’s a primary or even secondary backup. Curtis Wilcox wrote: “They tout their speed, saying “restore is so fast you’ll get your files back before other backup services can populate a hard drive and mail it to you.” That’s nice but when recovering from the total loss of a local drive, a lot of people would still be better off with a shipped hard drive due to their ISP’s performance.”
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