Arq® Blog

Next up: Arq 7!

We’re shipping Arq 7 this year. It has a totally new user interface, and all the features of Arq 6 plus additional improvements, and it’s awesome! It’s a free upgrade for Arq 6 customers, and a discounted price for Arq 5 customers. But wait, didn’t you just ship Arq 6? Yes, we did, last April. […]

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B2 Fireball speeds up your initial Arq backup

If you’ve got TBs of data to back up with Arq to Backblaze B2 cloud storage then their Fireball service might be just the thing for you. It’s a 96TB Synology NAS with 1GigE and 10GigE network connections. They send it to you, you fill it up and send it back, and they ingest the […]

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Arq Backs Up To B2!

Now you can back up with Arq to Backblaze’s B2 storage! It’s a super-cheap option ($.005/GB per month) for storing your backups. Arq 5.9 for Mac and Windows is a free update for all Arq 5 users. Just pick “Check for Updates” from Arq’s menu to get it. Or, if you’ve checked “automatically update Arq” […]

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Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore

Today we released Arq 5, and we’re really excited about it! We implemented a bunch of the most-requested features, and we worked hard on improving the performance. Big Price Change With Arq 5 we’re switching from per-computer licenses to per-user licenses! Buy one license and use it on all your Macs and PCs! Way Faster […]

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How to Recover Your Things Database with Arq

The other day Wendy emailed me because Things crashed and she lost a lot of work, and she couldn’t figure out how to get back her data using Arq. We traded a few emails over the next few hours, but it quickly became clear to me that she wasn’t wasn’t comfortable digging into her Library […]

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