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Arq Backup 5.7.8 | MacOSX | 33 MB
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May 23, 2017 Arq Backup @arqbackup Back up your Mac or PC to your Amazon Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, AWS S3, Glacier, Google Cloud, SFTP or NAS. Support: email [email protected]. The 5.17.2 version of Arq for Mac is provided as a free download on our website. Arq for Mac belongs to System Tools. The Arq installer is commonly called Arq.zip. The most popular versions of the application are 4.7, 2.8 and 1.7.
Arq is super-easy online backup for the Mac. Back up to your own Google Drive storage (15GB free storage), your own Amazon Glacier ($.01/GB per month storage) or S3, or any SFTP server. Arq backs up and faithfully restores all the special metadata of Mac files that other products don’t, including resource forks, ACLs, and creator codes.
Arq works like Time Machine, except you don’t have to remember to plug in your external hard drive. Following the initial backup, Arq automatically makes incremental backups every hour, every day, uploading just the files that have changed since your last backup. Arq keeps hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month.
Arq lets you set a budget for storage, and it automatically drops the oldest backups to keep within the budget.
Arq backs up everything with no limits. It backs up files of any size, external drives, and network drives. Arq compresses and “de-duplicates” your backups, never storing the same file twice in the cloud. Arq encrypts all your backups with a password that never leaves your computer, so no one can read your cloud backups. You can back up to multiple “targets”. Back up some files to Glacier, some to S3, some to an SFTP server, etc. You can also back up to Amazon, GreenQloud, DreamObjects, Google Cloud Storage, or any other S3-compatible service. ![]()
Compatibility: OS X 10.7 or later, 64-bit processor
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Arq Backup provides a simple backup solution for your Mac that can run in the background, constantly keeping your important files backed up to your choice of cloud storage platform. It encrypts your files locally and regularly backs up your changes when you are connected to the internet.
Since it is merely a tool that connects to your choice of storage provider it gives you a lot of flexibility to handle your backups as you see fit to provide the greatest level of control and redundancy. The quickest and simplest solution that provides a low-cost cloud backup option though is, so I’ve chosen to use it for this tutorial, but you can connect to other cloud storage providers in very similar ways.Let’s get started.This tutorial assumes you already have an account with an active Drive trial or subscription. If you don’t, go to to start a free trial or subscribe.
Download ArqIf you don’t already have it installed, then your first step is to download Arq. To do this, go to and download it. You can do this by clicking “Try Arq For Free” and then click “Download Arq for Mac”.
Install ArqOnce the download completes, run Arq.dmg and once the Arq Installer window opens, double click the Arq icon to begin the installation. When it asks you if you are sure you want to open it, click “Open”. It will then ask you to enter your computer password to confirm. This is not getting sent to Arq or anything like that, it is just your local computer making sure it is ok to run the application.
The installation itself will then happen and the Arq application will appear. LicensingA license information dialogue will appear where you can view the license agreement and then either agree to it or quit. Click “Agree” to proceed. By default, it will then present you with the Arq Trial. Enter your name and email address, then click “Start Trial”, or if you have a license click “I already have a license”.
It will give you a box to enter your serial number. Choose your backup destinationThe next dialogue to appear will ask you to choose your backup destination. Cloud Drive has been the default every time I’ve installed this, but if not, select it from the list then click “Log into Amazon Cloud Drive”.
Setup Amazon Cloud Drive connectionYou will be shown a window with the Amazon login screen. Enter your Amazon Drive credentials in order to log in.
Click the “Keep me signed in” box if you wish to remain signed in. Setup backupsArq will authenticate your Amazon Cloud Drive credentials, once successful, it will ask you what you want to do first, either setup backups or restore files. Click “Setup Backups”.
You will be asked for an encryption password. This is a completely new password that is used to encrypt your backup files. Only you will know this password, so if you forget it you will not be able to restore your backups. With that in mind, make sure it is something secure but also something that you will remember, or write it down somewhere safe. Once you have settled on what password you will use, enter it twice to confirm it and click “Continue”. Then click “I Wrote It Down” to confirm you have the password somewhere safe and acknowledge it cannot be retrieved if you haven’t.
Add folders to backupBy default, once you enter your encryption key, Arq will automatically add your Mac home directory to the backups. Depending on how you use your Mac this will include pretty much all your files already anyway. It includes everything on your desktop, in the default music, video, photo and document folders. You can, however, add more folders as you please.
This is especially important if you want to backup folders outside that home directory or things on external drives. To add new folders, click “To Amazon Cloud Drive” from the left backup tree.
On the right, your Amazon Cloud Drive backup information will appear and you can click the “Add a Folder to Backups” option. From the dialogue that appears you can then select the folder you want to backup and click “Open”.
You could select an entire external drive for example. It will then appear in the list of folders being backed up to Amazon Cloud Drive. Begin backing upIf you left all your settings as default, Arq will begin your backup on the next hour.
So for example, if it is 1:20pm, your backup will begin at 2:00pm. You can, however, force it to start immediately by clicking the Arq icon in the menu bar and selecting the “Back Up Now” option.Once your backups have begun you will be able to see information about them in the Arq window and from the menu accessible by clicking the Arq icon in the menu bar. You can also now close the Arq window and rest assured that your backups will continue to run as long as the Arq icon is in your menu bar.I hope you’ve found this helpful. I’ve also done a video tutorial that you can watch here:tgyoutube width=”” height=”” videoid=”IFW6FWPA80s”.
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