I think it’s because the developer of Arq is a Mac user who wrote a software that might work well on Mac, but uses the Windows API in some really inefficient way. That’s really the main problem of Arq: It seems to be completely incapable of scanning the disk in an efficient way. On a good day it manages to upload 50 GB, but there are a lot of days for Arq that are not good days, where it spends 20 hours with just “scanning” the disk. Arq is still so slow that it’s completely unusable in practice. It’s still extremely slow, just like years ago when I tried Arq 5, and why I switched to Duplicacy. In these 3 months, where my PC runs all day long, it has not managed to get anywhere close to finishing the backup. So I installed Arq 7 and set it up, because why not, it can’t hurt. Then Arq 6 came out which seemed to be full of issues, and so everyone who had a valid Arq 6 license was granted a free Arq 7 license, which I never used since I was happy with Duplicacy by then already…īut now recently (3 months ago), I was thinking “Well I use cloud storage where I have “unlimited” space, so why not just run two backup software simultaneously, just for some extra redundancy in case one of the software has a bug that corrupts its backup? And I still have this unused Arq 7 license I got for free, so maybe see how well it works?”. Then at some point I switched to Duplicacy, because Arq was just way too slow with its backup speed. A long time ago I used Arq 5 for my backups.
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