{"id":389,"date":"2021-02-02T11:51:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T11:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arqbackup.com\/blog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2021-02-09T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T17:38:49","slug":"arq-7-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arqbackup.com\/blog\/arq-7-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Arq 7: Lots More Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Arq 7 is here with more power to give you more control over your backups than ever before!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arq 7 is fully backward-compatible with backup data created by older versions of Arq, but it&#8217;s packed with new features. It&#8217;s been through 4+ months of internal and beta testing, so it&#8217;s solid. 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