Arq 6: More power, more security, more storage savings

By the look of their Twitter timeline the launch seems to be a bit of a disaster...<p>I spent about 15 minutes buying, downloading and installing Arq 6. Then, i spent about 10 hours trying to fix things, and eventually downgrade back to Arq 5 from another backup made with borgbackup...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;arqbackup&#x2F;status&#x2F;1247845283326803968?s=21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;arqbackup&#x2F;status&#x2F;1247845283326803968?s=2...</a><p>Also, the documentation has been offline all (launch)day: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arqbackup.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;arq6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arqbackup.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;arq6</a><p>It&#x27;s a shame because i&#x27;ve been hapily using Arq4 and 5 for many years. Hopefully they get their shit sorted quickly.

They switched from per-user licenses to per-computer licenses. I am not sure how this works with previous lifetime licenses.<p>With my lifetime Arq 5 license I can upgrade to a single computer license with 50% discount and to a 5 computer family pack for 62% discount and I am not sure why the first option is even offered to previous lifetime accounts.

I think the APFS snapshot integration is easily the coolest part of Arq 6. Arq now has access to a special Apple entitlement to take full-desk point-in-time snapshots of an APFS container and backup from that. It&#x27;s like what time machine would&#x27;ve&#x2F;should&#x27;ve been, for the cloud.