Once you’ve signed up to S3, go download Arq here. You can review the prices here, but they’re really good overall. Let’s see how it works, anyway.įirst, you need to create an AWS (Amazon Web Service) account and sign up to S3. Everything goes straight into S3’s bucket, on your account, safe and encrypted. As I mentioned above, I was looking for this backup service then I discovered this new application: Arq uses Amazon S3 to contionuously backup the files / folders on your Mac. But we ain’t talking about CDN and delivery times here, I want to focus on backing up stuff. When combined to CloudFront, S3 is a damn good CDN, with a damn good price. The “Simple storage service” that Amazon provides starting from $0.15 per GB is indeed very famous among bloggers who daily upload their posts’ pictures to S3 in order to achieve faster delivery times to their audience. In the quest for finding the perfect online backup service, the answer was pretty obvious: Amazon S3.
Today I’m going to talk about Arq from Haystack Software, an application that has already become a fundamental part of my workflow. Most like every new app I’ve recently discovered, everything happened on Twitter: I don’t remember quite well, but it was some night ago when someone tweeted “this new beta of Arq rocks!” I need something cheap, that runs in the background as soon as I make some changes, it has to be reliable, fast and secure. Really guys? Would you suggest Dropbox for people who need to save files with incremental backups everyday? You know that it costs a lot and that, in the best case, you have to manually drag & drop every folder inside it? (unless you create your folders in /Dropbox from the start). As soon as MacStories started growing some months ago, I began to look out for good solutions to daily back up my files and various databases, and I was looking for a cloud solution. You can’t be serious about your business if you don’t backup and save important stuff just in case something goes wrong. As soon as your business grows, so does the need of backing up everything.
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