I’m really excited to ship Arq 1.5!
It includes scheduling options like once-per-day backups and manual-only (one of the most requested features) as well as Pause/Resume and Back Up Now functions. It also includes a whole bunch of refinements and bug fixes.
To get it, pick “Check for Updates” from the menu in Arq, or download it from the product page.
Here are the details:
Feature Additions
- Configurable backup schedule: hourly, once/day at a certain time of day, or manually.
- Back Up Now feature.
- Pause backups for an amount of time you choose. Resume early if you wish. (‘Pause’ is better than ‘stop’ because you won’t have to remember to start it again).
- Progress indicator next to the “Other Computers” heading in the source list (on the left side of the window) so you can tell when Arq is still scanning for other computers’ backups in the S3 data.
- More informative status messages such as “Calculating upload size” and “Finishing backup” instead of just “Backing up …”
- Better communication of error and warning conditions.
- Estimated backup time is now calculated based on start of backup, not start of calculating upload size.
- More accurate progress bar in 2 scenarios — when saving the “packs” of small files, and when re-doing an initial backup that was aborted.
- More useful logging output when log level is set to Info.
- Much faster loading when browsing backups.
Bug Fixes
- More efficient caching of the set of objects in S3.
- Fixed an issue where calculating the upload size for a backup was incomplete when a permission error was encountered.
- Fixed issues with high memory usage in both Arq and Arq Agent.
- Fixed an issue that was preventing the “Start at Login” preference from persisting.
- Fixed 2 issues where packs weren’t being read correctly, leading to “object not found” errors.
- Fixed regression bug in restoring file permissions correctly for root-owned files.
- Fixed an issue where the folder’s progress bar was occasionally disappearing.
- Fixed an issue with trying to read extended attributes on files that don’t support extended attributes.
Enjoy! If you have any feedback or questions I’d love to hear from you! Just email support@haystacksoftware.com. Thanks!
- Stefan
ok that´s it i´m buying it !
Comment by gisli haukur — July 16, 2010 @ 12:32 pm
Awesome – thanks!
Comment by Trevor Turk — July 16, 2010 @ 3:19 pm
Awesome. Thanks for the update. The new features are really useful to me!
Comment by Mahesh Pai — July 17, 2010 @ 5:31 pm
Thank you!
Feature requests:
* Folder lists with alphabetical and free order and not just ordered as added.
* Alphabetical order as in Finder within folder view, it’s currently sorted like in the Terminal (e.g. special characters after numbers, in Finder it’s vice versa).
Comment by Martin — July 25, 2010 @ 3:01 pm
P.S.: The problem in the folder list is not alphabetical order per se, the problem is that folder beginning with a lower case letter are listed after folders beginning with an upper case later.
Comment by Martin — July 25, 2010 @ 4:08 pm
Are you going to improve the GUI?
I would like to know which files exactly get copied and which not. I would like to have a log file. I would like to see information on bandwidth used and so on. Any chance for such improvements, is there a road map available?
Comment by Markus Müller — July 28, 2010 @ 3:04 pm
Hi Markus,
Yes, I’m always working on the GUI.
I don’t have a published roadmap.
But showing which files were added/changed/deleted from one backup to the next is on the list.
So is showing S3 usage.
For now, you could turn on debug logging if you’re curious, but you’ll probably get a lot more output than you wanted.
Comment by Stefan Reitshamer — July 28, 2010 @ 3:06 pm