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Best Cloud Backup Tool For Macs

Arq is a great backup solution for Macs:

  1. Inexpensive
  2. Automatic
  3. Reliable
  4. Robustly Secure
  5. Open-Source

As a couple points of comparison, I’ve previously used both Mozy and ADrive. Mozy’s pricing is double or triple identical competitors and ADrive’s file retrieval interface is an antiquated Java app (bleck!).

Arq is fairly straightforward to use. But if I were setting up backups for a friend or relative who wasn’t technically savvy enough to manage an Amazon AWS account, I would probably get them Crashplan. It’s not as good, but it’s simpler to use and 1000x better than not having backups… even if it does offer less privacy, cost more, and expose customers to the very real possibility that Crashplan could go bankrupt and disappear with all their customers’ data.

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Louie Helm is a Machine Learning Engineer

2 Responses to “Best Cloud Backup Tool For Macs”

  1. May 7

    Steven Grimm

    Second this recommendation. I use both Arq and Crashplan. Since it’s flat-rate, Crashplan gets cheaper than Arq if you’re backing up a lot of big files like video and raw photos. (I keep physical backups too, so Crashplan potentially vanishing isn’t as huge a deal for me.)

  2. May 8

    Ryan Del Mundo

    I want a cloud-drive to store my Aperture photos. Arq is still a backup system not an online drive. Wish someone would get that going with AWS for mac.