This is a minor update which adds 1 new significant feature — the ability to select a single file to back up.
To get it, pick “Check for Updates” from the Arq menu, or download it from the product page.
Here are the details:
Release Notes for Arq Backup Version 1.5.12
Feature Additions
- Select an individual file to add to backups.
Bug Fixes
- If Arq is in the middle of relaunching after installing an update, don’t show an error about Arq Agent not running.
- Arq Agent checks for app updates and displays a message when an update is available.
- Don’t show filename as “download name” in S3 objects.
- Added help to the initial setup screen that explains what S3 keys are.
Hello,
Thank you very much for the possibility to add single files
I’m able to drag and drop single files to backup, but not to pick up them when I click the “Add a folder for backup” button. Well the name of the button is clear… but it seems to me it would be more consistent if I could add files or folders to backup with both methods.
Comment by Franck Guadagnini — August 23, 2010 @ 4:30 pm
Oops! I missed that. I’ll fix it shortly.
Thank you for pointing it out!
- Stefan
Comment by Stefan Reitshamer — August 23, 2010 @ 4:32 pm
What’s the status of your plan for improvements of the data selection dialogue?
It doesn’t help that files are now listed as folders. A folder tree as used in Jungle Disk would still be my preference, it is very easy to see at first sight which folders are selected and which not and you can select whole folder structures as well as single files. In addition, it becomes immediately clear which folders and files are excluded from the backup.
Comment by Martin — August 24, 2010 @ 5:16 am
I understand the appeal of the file tree view, but it doesn’t handle excludes very well. Jungle Disk has a (rather techie) feature of adding wildcard excludes, but they’re not represented in the file tree. If you add some excludes, looking at the file tree doesn’t really show you that a bunch of files/folders are being excluded from the backup.
Could you please tell me more about what problem you’re trying to solve here? Is it just that you want to be able to tell exactly what on your computer will be backed up given the configured folders and exclude rules? Or something else?
Comment by Stefan Reitshamer — August 24, 2010 @ 7:39 am
Your way is ‘rather techie’ IMHO. You have to use manually created filters and you have no idea which data is actually excluded from the backup, you simply have to trust your skills to create filters yourself. In Jungle Disk, the tree view indicates where files/folders are excluded or not with respective symbols and colors. And is is not necessary to remember the files/folders you want to exclude in order to create a filter, you just click on files and folders and you get immediate feedback. That is BTW pretty standard in backup software, it is not an exotic wish.
The former, and that should not really be a question. I want of course know whether files and folders get saved or not. The same goes for information on the size of my backup and a log file with information on data transferred, etc.
Arq is promising but it is not a serious contender with the current GUI if you want to backup selected files and folders and not just everything. Is it also very inconvenient that you have to remove folders from the backup if you want to add its root folder.
Comment by Martin — September 2, 2010 @ 6:05 pm