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Arq, SyncPhotos, Duplifinder are Lion compatible apps

Stefan Reitshamer — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:37:36 +0000

OS X Lion is out, and all Haystack Software apps are compatible.

SyncPhotos 2.0.7: sync your iPhoto Libraries across computers

Duplifinder 2.0.3: eliminate duplicate photos

If you do happen to run into an issue with any of the above, please email support@haystacksoftware.com and I’ll address the issue very promptly!

Arq 1.7 is out!

Stefan Reitshamer — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:27:30 +0000

This release is mostly focused on budgeting. There’s a new view that shows current S3 space usage, and a new menu item to trigger Arq Agent to enforce the budget.

Get the new version by selecting “Check for Updates” from the Arq menu, or download it from http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/

Here are the details:

Release Notes for Arq Backup Version 1.7

Feature Additions

Added a view showing S3 space usage.
Added S3 data trimming interval as a preference.
Added ‘Trim S3 Data Now…’ menu item to Arq Agent.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused Arq Agent to crash when pausing and resuming.
Fixed issues with trimming backups (calculating and enforcing budget).
Ask for permission to launch Arq Agent (the first time) before launching it.
Fixed issues with license key editing.
Fixed an error that occurred when clearing the pause minutes field.
Fixed an issue where, after backup versions were rewritten, Arq Agent was returning the wrong backup-version ID to Arq, and Arq was erroneously displaying zero backup versions.
Fixed an issue with daily-backup scheduling that caused backups to run continuously for an hour.
Reduced memory usage during Arq Agent startup.
Fixed an issue where S3 “not found” results were being logged as errors.

Arq 1.3.14 is out!

Stefan Reitshamer — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:47:36 +0000

This release adds support for the Asia Pacific S3 bucket region “ap-southeast-1″ and fixes a number of bugs, including excessive memory usage and occasional temporary not-found errors on restore.

Feature Additions

“ap-southeast-1″ bucket region support.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where changes to folders on remote volumes sometimes weren’t detected.
Fixed the frantic behavior on agent startup when a folder is missing.
Fixed the frantic behavior on agent startup when the 30-day trial is over and Arq doesn’t have a valid license yet.
Allow 0 for a budget number. If budget is 0 (or any number less than the minimum space required for 1 backup of each folder), Arq keeps just 1 backup for each folder.
Show correct pricing numbers in budget preferences, using pricing of selected bucket region.
Fixed long-term memory usage issues in Arq Agent.
Log the error code and description when SecKeychainItemCreateFromContent fails (rare).
Fixed an issue that was causing occasional temporary “not found” errors on restore: When Arq backs up, it stores small files in “packs”. When a pack reaches 10MB, Arq saves it to S3. When it’s done backing up it saves the last pack in S3 too. The next time it backs up, it starts with that last pack and adds to it until it reaches 10MB, at which point it replaces that last pack with the new full-size pack. The restore process was trying to read from the pack that the backup process deleted (replaced with a different pack). If you restarted Arq and tried restoring again, it found the new pack and worked fine.

Pick “Check for Updates” from the Arq menu to automatically update to 1.3.14, or download it from the web.