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By: Joel Limberg

Joel Limberg — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:50:13 +0000

http://twitter.com/joellimberg/status/9002475407

My backup disks sit next to my computer, waiting for something to go really really wrong…

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:51:20 +0000

http://twitter.com/6T9/status/8988291629

I have had my share of HDD failures and while Time Machine is great, it isn't bullet-proof and I would hate to have to learn that again the hard way

Hook a brother up! Thanx

By: Teryn

Teryn — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:15:00 +0000

https://twitter.com/wxee/status/8960116356

I'd love to win because I need a good online backup system as well, and I've always found Amazon S3 to be very reliable for storage.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:03:26 +0000

I'd love to win as I'm in dire need of a good backup system – although my MacBook Pro is backed up my hundreds of RAW photos are not… Arq & Amazon S3 sound like a solution.

http://twitter.com/LunaTicket/status/8925366128

By: Frank Bianchetti

Frank Bianchetti — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:14:05 +0000

https://twitter.com/bianchef/status/8906748075

Low cost backup anywhere on AWS? Yeah, I want it.

By: Pattulus

Pattulus — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:23:43 +0000

@Pattulus, Wow… I just started the Arq Trial and it's really, really stunning. And since the $29 would shrink my student budget, I'll sit and wait (*80's melody in my head*) and hoping for the best.

By: Hector Lee

Hector Lee — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:29:54 +0000

http://twitter.com/hecty_/status/8903235175

It might a solution to two things I haven't tried. Subversion and Online Backup.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:26:19 +0000

Thanks for the reply, Stefan! I'd like to put in my giveaway entry, too. The initial upload for my iPhoto file will be a doozy, but I'd be loving Arq's ability to upload only the changed parts from that point forward while keeping a backup of my precious photos on Amazon.

http://twitter.com/QUIETFIRE2009/statuses/8902996068

By: jaryre

jaryre — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:31:24 +0000

http://twitter.com/jaryre/status/8897768369

Really hope I can win this
Have looked for a backup service for so long because I don't want to loss my precious data in my mac
I don't have any backup service yet

Thanks!

By: SebaSonido

SebaSonido — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:28:05 +0000

https://twitter.com/SebaSonido/status/8896389775

I have a lot of important files and have to backup them somewhere and Arq could be an app that I need.

By: Shadowchaser

Shadowchaser — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:31:03 +0000

Tweet: http://twitter.com/pczajkowski/status/8893853114

Wow! I was waiting for something like it. I'm a long time user of Amazon S3 and missed a solution which would allow me to easily backup my files there. Seems very user friendly so far. I love this spending limit functionality. Want it! Want it bad:)

By: Stefan Reitshamer

Stefan Reitshamer — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:24:25 +0000

I should have also mentioned: Arq "de-duplicates" your files, so the same file contents are never stored more than once in your S3 account.

By: Stefan Reitshamer

Stefan Reitshamer — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:16:32 +0000

@Dave, after the initial upload, Arq will only upload files that have changed. Give it a try (it has a free 30-day trial and takes a few seconds to set up) and see if you're happy with it.

By: Henry Yue

Henry Yue — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:07:54 +0000

My tweet: http://twitter.com/AppleTribe/status/8891910197

I love Dropbox for synchronizing files across my macs but to backup my media using Dropbox can be quite expensive. I am very interested to explore Arq as it uses Amazon S3 as their storage solution which has the lowest cost per GB for online backup.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:33:45 +0000

@Stefan (developer)-I'd find this useful particularly if Arq can do incremental backups of iPhoto without re-uploading 20+GB each time I do a backup. I get the impression that Arq doesn't dig into packages like this, but I wanted to be sure. Thanks!

By: Justin Green

Justin Green — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:33:42 +0000

Tweet: http://twitter.com/jutgreen/status/8887824088

I'd like to win simple because I need an offsite backup solution, and Amazon S3 is about a reliable as it gets!

By: Davide85

Davide85 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:16:14 +0000

I have to start considering Amazon S3 too
here's my tweet
http://twitter.com/eikichiDanma/status/8875443228
Hope to find place on the Arq ;-P

By: Pattulus

Pattulus — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:09:52 +0000

https://twitter.com/pattulus/status/8875098592

You already made a point there: Dropbox is wonderful, but it's too expensive to use the syncing lion to backup data.

I always avoided Amazon S3, but reading your lines I thought again and again about joining the club… And well, now I did. Thanks.

By: CannonGod

CannonGod — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:03:20 +0000

The biggest feature I'm waiting for is to have all my cloud-stored files viewable on the computer, but I choose which files I store locally.

By: CannonGod

CannonGod — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:55:30 +0000

I'm set private so I probably can't enter the competition. Never mind! ^_^

Going to finish my MobileMe trial, then go for the ARQ 30-day trial. Want to explore the alternatives to Dropbox.

Personally I think you are paying the same rates as Dropbox for S3 access, but ARQ allows custom limits, not 50GB or 100GB packages. Also you can run a fully fledged website out of ARQ, rather than psuedo-code with Dropbox or MobileMe, letting ARQ be the auto FTP client

By: Stefan Reitshamer

Stefan Reitshamer — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:51:12 +0000

@Brad, it's a universal binary so it should work on PowerPC, but I don't have one to test it. It requires at least 10.5 though.

Please tweet me at @arqbackup if you run into any issues on your PowerPC machine and I'll address them ASAP.

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:37:56 +0000

The problem that I've found is that most of these inexpensive backup solutions like Carbonite do not work on PowerPC machines. I don't see a requirement of Intel processor for Arq. If this is the case then this may be the solution that I'm looking for.

By: fellowweb

fellowweb — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:28:00 +0000

Federico,

Awesome program. Thank you very much for sharing! It reminds me a bit of what JungleDisk has been before it was bought by Rackspace.

It seems to perfectly fill the gap JungleDisk left. It sounds like the perfect tool for online backup.

I'd love to win but I can't wait and I'll directly look for a trial version on the developer's homepage.

http://twitter.com/fellowweb/status/8873670811

By: SuperGlide

SuperGlide — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:25:44 +0000

My HD crashed 2 weeks ago and it's been agony recreating my files and applications. If I had been using online storage I could've avoided this time consuming resurrection. Next time I want to be prepared…
http://twitter.com/ripvw/status/8872841233

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:22:11 +0000

Oops, forgot the link:

http://twitter.com/OrangeGuutan/status/8872871234