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command-line utility for restoring from Arq backups

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2011-02-16 · latest 2024-04-04

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  1. That's not true, actually. Code for restoring from Arq backups is freely available: https://github.com/arqbackup/arq_restore
    comment by ink_13 · 2024-04-04 · in A disk so full, it couldn't be restored
  2. …format in case the company were to go under, they have an open source command-line restore tool: https://github.com/arqbackup/arq_restore I've been using Arq for years, but I need to look into the "Glacier Deep Archive" format which is…
    comment by xmddmx · 2023-04-16 · in Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes
  3. Adding on: Arq has a open source restore tool, which I think is important in the long term: https://github.com/arqbackup/arq_restore
    comment by ValentineC · 2019-01-20 · in I Nearly Lost All of My Data
  4. …has open-sourced a restore tool, to help ease the "what if they go out of business" concerns: https://github.com/sreitshamer/arq_restore Also, somebody else has created a Go utility that can read the backup format:…
    comment by ejdyksen · 2016-04-12 · in Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows
  5. No it doesn't. They've had an open-source CLI tool since at least 2013. https://github.com/sreitshamer/arq_restore
    comment by TkTech · 2016-01-18 · in I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
  6. Nice. I checked, and the source to the restore tool has been updated too: https://github.com/sreitshamer/arq_restore (I haven't run a test restore with it yet, though.)
    comment by jmah · 2011-08-23 · in Arq 2 (OS X backup-to-S3 software) has been released.
  7. …company can die and I can still recover my files (there's an open source recovery tool on github - https://github.com/sreitshamer/arq_restore It also does away with some of the stupid restrictions typically found with Backblaze/Mozy with…
    comment by michaelbuckbee · 2011-02-16 · in Why I no longer trust EMC