We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to describe our software

Re:We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to desc... by hvidgaard on Monday March 13, 2017 @03:46AM (#13855944)

I use that product as well, and I think it is severely underrated for the professional and poweruser. From the top of my head:

- Client side encryption, with my key (and trust that Arq doesn't phone home). If that is an issue just pre encrypt the data before Arq backs it up.

- Use a storage provider of my choice, i.e. I'm confident that it is secure with Amazon S3 - no unknown shortcuttings.

- Multiple destinations possible.

- Open source tool capable of decrypting the data.

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Re:We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to desc... by chmars on Monday March 13, 2017 @08:58AM (#13857363)

I use Arq too, however, there are some limitations:

- Scanning of new / changed files takes could be faster and less demanding for the file system (on my Macs, Finder sometimes temporarily freezes when Arq is scanning for new / changed files)

- Mail reports for '0 errors' (all the time, so the mail reports for errors only are rather useless)

- Running in user context only, i.e., if you log out while your Mac is still running, the backup will not continue

- Loading of existing backups (reading / caching index) tends to be slow (and sometimes hangs)

- GUI does not scale up for many existing backups

With that being sad, you listed the major reasons to use Arq and all in all, I am a happy Arq user.

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