More info from the same #ArqBackup log. It initialized 70 of 79 records. Why not the other 9? Maybe because of the 9 "object not found" errors? Then it reports 1,213 "unrecognized backup data objects". This is all meaningless to the user because we don't know what, if anything, we should do about it. Arq is the only program that touches its backup sets so any errors are caused by Arq itself. What other conclusion can I draw?

While I use #ArqBackup and am willing to deal with its oddities, I can't recommend it to non-technical people because it issues too many bizarre error messages, and exhibits unexplained behaviour. For example, yesterday it ran a backup just fine. Today the same backup has to initialize some database. It's been working 5.5 hours at 100% CPU and it's only loaded 59 of 79 records (92 million items). It's felt the need to do this more frequently. People have been reporting this problem for years.

Honestly, #ArqBackup did a great job just now:

- told it to restore on top of my home directory but left "overwrite existing files" unchecked
- took maybe 10 minutes tops to scan my entire homedir (including many gigglebytes' worth of media files)
- restored all the files git knew had been removed
- presumably also restored anything else older than 2am, which got caught up in that ~=1s run of the rm -rf

Still…a good lesson was learned 😰

#ArqBackup has the most "interesting" error messages. Totally useless for the user though. Note that the dev can't decide on the time format. Basically I just wait to see if the error is transient. If not, I start a whole new backup set because there is no repair mechanism.

23-Apr-2025 20:46:16 EDT Error: Backup record 2024-05-18 14:50:17 +0000 of /Users/<redacted> (BF9AF519-F284-425B-99CA-5E8C8DF75A03): unpacked blob d7073d04aa9f8603458de37a1040f8401cd00b0d (STANDARD) not in backup set db

AHA!! There is an easier way - thanks to the answer of the #arqbackup Support! You can:
- remove the Backup Plan (no data loss!)
- remove the Storage Location (no data loss!)
- add the new Storage Location
- open the new Location - you see the backups
- Right click on a Backup and select "Adopt" to get a new Backup Plan with this settings

So: Ther IS a way but it's hidden in the most artful way 😄

**Holly Smoke** 🤪 I've found a solution to fix/change a path to a *Storage Location* in #ArqBackup … well … "solution" for #developer or #nerds that is 🫣
So, if your Synology suddenly is available with "name.location" or now without ".location"-suffix, how to change that?

/Library/Application Support/ArqAgent/server.db - copy to writable folder and make it writable. Open with SQLite browser. Change "json" in "storage_location"-Table. Copy Back. Force-Stop "ArqMonitor" and "ArqAgent". Done ✅

Frage zu #arqbackup
Bisher wurde mein ziellaufwerk im Netz unter //server.local/ gefunden. Jetzt aber unter //server/

Wie zum Geier ändere ich das Ziel für die die Backups in arqbackup?! Ich werd noch bekloppt.

Please: how to chance url to destination in arqbackup if the backup server in my local network is now available with //server/ instead of //server.local/ ??

Bitte boost 🚀

@Taffer @kboyd ARQ backup supports S3 Compatible server. Wonder if that would support that.

#arqbackup

Arq Backup has decided it needs to reinitialize the database from 64 backups. It's on number 50 and has been running for over 8 hours. Arq basically works … until it doesn't … and then it spits out weird errors. It's not like the backups have been interrupted (the last one completed without reporting errors), so whatever errors are now in the database are because of Arq itself.

#ArqBackup

sh....t didn’t recognize my #Arqbackup was not working anymore since end of December...

Looks like permission issue for the macOS login item. Maybe this was introduced with a macOS update, not sure.

Enabling the PhotoMinds (strange name) item made it work again.

@timbray @filippo just looked up… my first single computer license for v5 was bought in 2017… time flies by

#arqbackup

@timbray @filippo +1 for #Arqbackup

I‘m using this for many many years in our and family MacBooks. You forget it’s there and you don’t need it that often but when you need it, restore is flawless.

And of course, 3 of my Arq Backups failed on the infamous "invalid argument" error that I first reported to the dev in January 2017. The only way to fix this is to kill the Arq processes because it doesn't give me a clean way to shut them down. I'm long past the tinkering phase and just want stuff to work.

#ArqBackup

#BorgBackup, #Restic, or #ArqBackup for remote backups of MacOS clients?

@dmnelson #arqbackup (not the cloud version=premium)… using it since years with the family. Just SFTP or something to a target you choose.

If no UI is needed… #restic

Back in #singapore and turned on my #Mac Mini again. Almost 3 months (of no backups). #ARQ #ARQbackup

#Arqbackup just saved my …

My ~500 GB Apple Photos library on my external SSD was corrupted.. maybe because of not ejecting the drive correctly. Photos repair mechanism didn't work... still error -1.

Restoring the backup from last week in-place took < 5 minutes.

Library opens again without error, syncs with iCloud... all fine

🏷️ #ApplePhotos #ExternalSSD #Backup #Restore

Finally migrated and tested #Arqbackup storage from #Wasabi to #Hetzner #StorageBox.

All looks fine. To avoid the next billing cycle I deleted the buckets and my account on Wasabi today.

I'm pretty happy 🥳

@waffles I'm using the #StorageBox right now for backing up files from the Synology NAS

- archived documents
- photos
- videos
- some files from VMs (to be able to restore faster)
- tools and configs

I'm uploading only encrypted backups. This is easily setup on the NAS using Hyperbackup.

On a computer you could use #restic or #ArqBackup for this.

Interesting #Amazon knows I used #arqbackup in the past to store data on AmazonDrive.
Got the following mail from them.

I don’t need that anymore because I‘m using #Wasabi now.