Arq 7 Announced
We had hoped to ship an Arq 6 update that was compatible with Arq 5 data by end of June 2020. But we wanted to ship something great, even if it takes a lot longer than we initially expected.
At some point we tried prototyping Arq 6 as a “native” UI on macOS, and realized we like it a lot better.
So, we decided to implement the entire UI as a “native” UI. It’s got better keyboard navigation, it’s more intuitive, has a smaller disk footprint, and supports drag-and-drop to easily restore files to your desktop or a Finder window. It just feels better.
It’s in private testing now. The data format and method of selecting backup items have been reworked again, and it fixes the annoying Arq 6 bug where unmounting an unrelated drive cancels all the in-progress backups.
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I hope this is as good as it sounds. I held off Arq 6 after the rollout complaints, but the performance benefits of the new archive format are sorely needed. I hope we can get the best of both worlds.