The linux folder got there in about 8 minutes over a GB connection, and I threw a bunch of other things at it with no trouble. I downloaded a demo of ExpanDrive (no fuse!), used a Wasabi help file to get it connected, and that worked great. I’ve never had Fuse not cause weird problems on a working system. Did Show Package Contents, peeked at the Frameworks, discovered that it uses osxfuse, and tossed it. The transfer hung after 5 minutes, and I couldn’t find a way to cleanly cancel the operation. As my first test, I told it to to copy a folder with eight linux installer isos, 17GB total. Upload though the web interface was unreliable at best. I’ve been playing with the 30 day demo, and on the whole I think I’ll stick with it though there have been a couple of minor issues. They clone the Amazon S3 model, so many clients work easily with it, and the wasabi help is fairly good so far. Wasabi has a choice of server locations - west coast, east coast, europe. B2 simply isn’t far enough away from my primary disaster scenario - major PNW earthquake or volcano. Now I’m back to the ‘which cloud?’ choice. I wish it could select files based on modification dates and other metadata, but I can live with file paths as long as I can see the hierarchy as I select things. Multiple backup sets and other useful features. Sane file selection so it’s easy to prioritize what gets backed up on a slow connection and gradually add to it. I played more with a full Arq demo at work, and it’s so much nicer. It’s certainly worth trying out, but keep a close eye on it throughout the demo period (and after) to make sure it’s doing what it should. I expect that it will eventually be a good choice for many people, but for now I’d call it a beta release. The developer never replied to the report I sent about the problems I was having (I didn’t really expect a reply, it’s a small shop). At some point it just stalled, and was only sending out a few bites every couple of minutes. In about 9 days, it managed to transfer 2.5 GB out of 100 GB of it. And it did, until I added my Aperture library which is the primary thing that needs to be backed up. I hoped that if I limited it to my main system boot drive, it could at least manage that cleanly. I gave up on it on my fileserver pretty quickly because ACB gets a D- at selecting what you want to backup or not backup. It’s not ready for primetime, at least for me. Unfortunately I had to give up completely on Arq Cloud Backup.
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