Greg Hurrell:

The other backup tool that has saved my hide in the past is SuperDuper!, but on this occasion I didn’t have access to my physical (SuperDuper!) backup, so restoring from the cloud (Arq) was my only option.

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Arq used all the memory on the system, requiring me to start again[…] Restarting is a bit annoying, because I use Glacier storage for my backups, meaning that you can’t just start downloading the data from the cloud; instead, you request for it to be made available and then wait 5 hours before actually beginning the download. Downloading from Glacier also hurts the wallet a bit, to the tune of about a hundred bucks for all the retrieval costs associated with the repeated attempts.

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There are a number of apps that you have to open or twiddle in order to get things working, even though Homebrew installs them[…]

Backup and restore have definitely gotten easier over the years, but whether on iOS or macOS restoring is never as smooth as you’d hope.

Previously:

• Parachute Backup Acquired
• SuperDuper 3.12
• Backblaze No Longer Backs Up Dropbox
• Carbon Copy Cloner 7.1.3
• A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Permissions Requests
• Arq 7

Amazon Glacier Arq Backup Mac macOS Tahoe 26

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