{"id":16724,"date":"2016-12-23T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T20:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16724"},"modified":"2016-12-23T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T20:21:10","slug":"investigating-chronosync-4-7-for-cloud-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/23\/investigating-chronosync-4-7-for-cloud-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigating ChronoSync 4.7 for Cloud Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/16858\">Glenn Fleishman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/16858\">\n<p>We at TidBITS were excited to see ChronoSync add options to use Amazon&rsquo;s Simple Storage System (S3) and Google Cloud Storage as sources or destinations. ChronoSync 4.7 also added support for SFTP (Secure FTP), which gives you even more remote file storage options.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Because of ChronoSync&rsquo;s extreme flexibility and the complexity of understanding and setting up cloud storage services, the discussion below gets quite involved. The executive summary is that ChronoSync is a great option for those who need the ultimate control over offsite backup, but ends up being more expensive and slower than dedicated cloud backup services.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&rsquo;m pretty happy with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arqbackup.com\">Arq<\/a> (+ <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/03\/arq-supports-amazon-cloud-drive-backup\/\">Amazon Cloud Drive<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crashplan.com\/en-us\/\">CrashPlan<\/a>, but it&rsquo;s good to see a new and different type of cloud backup option. For example, the Synchronize Bidirectional feature looks like an interesting alternative to <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/replacing-dropbox-with-resilio-sync\/\">Resilio Sync<\/a> when combined with Archive Replaced Files. I also like that there&rsquo;s a Preview feature.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Arq, the files are not encrypted until after they get to the cloud storage provider.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Fleishman: We at TidBITS were excited to see ChronoSync add options to use Amazon&rsquo;s Simple Storage System (S3) and Google Cloud Storage as sources or destinations. ChronoSync 4.7 also added support for SFTP (Secure FTP), which gives you even more remote file storage options. [&#8230;] Because of ChronoSync&rsquo;s extreme flexibility and the complexity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20,21,146,1449,35,1149,30,32,1381,790,269],"class_list":["post-16724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-glacier","tag-s3","tag-backup","tag-chronosync","tag-cloud","tag-google-cloud-storage-nearline","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-12","tag-sftp","tag-syncing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16725,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724\/revisions\/16725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}