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  • Head to head: Apple's Time Machine versus three local backup utilities for macOS

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    timmerk said:
    I wish they included Arq, so I could compare against the other programs mentioned. Arq seems to be like Time Machine and an offsite cloud backup in one. It doesn't make bootable backups, but it's supposed to backup everything, including system files.
    Arq is excellent, I've used in for 4 years. 

    Note that it backs you your files, not all your system data. If a drive failed you'd need to reinstall MacOS then restore your backed up files via Arq. 

    I love the the fact that i can choose where my data goes. For me that's Amazon S3 in Ireland. 

    I had used crashplan but when it when switching from PC to Mac it was going to take a month to backup. That same backup to Amazon was at line speed (10Mbit)

    amazon s3 is cheap too. 

    I use use time machine for local backups and Arq to get my data offsite. 

    The thing I dislike about the disc cloning solutions is they're cloning a potentially bad disc. If things fail I'll always do a clean install. They also don't offer great protection against accidental deletion. 
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