{"id":23057,"date":"2018-10-11T17:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T21:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23057"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:49:07","slug":"smartbackup-4-2-is-now-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/11\/smartbackup-4-2-is-now-free\/","title":{"rendered":"SmartBackup 4.2 Is Now Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/solesignal.com\/smartbackup4\/\">Solesignal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/solesignal.com\/smartbackup4\/\">\n<p>SmartBackup uses its own custom sync engine which offers several performance advantages over other utilities. SmartBackup will immediately start copying data while it in parallel still analyses what has changed. SmartBackup&rsquo;s sync engine then uses multiple threads that copy files in parallel, squeezing the fastest possible performance out of your storage. This makes it significantly faster that other utilities when cloning SSDs or syncing between fast RAID or SAN storage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It supports bootable clones and archiving deleted files, and it claims to pass all the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/n8gray\/Backup-Bouncer\">Backup Bouncer<\/a> tests.<\/p>\n<p>More about the <a href=\"https:\/\/solesignal.com\/smartbackup4\/help\/\">threading<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/solesignal.com\/smartbackup4\/help\/\"><ul><li>If a single &ldquo;spinning&rdquo; harddisk is involved as a source or destination 2 copy threads will be fastest.<\/li>\n<li>If source and destination are SSD\/Flash based, or a RAID, 4 copy threads will give you optimum performance.<\/li>\n<li>If you use a network backup, it depends on your setup and the type of data. Somewhere between 2-4 threads will be fastest.<\/li>\n<li>On fast Xsan\/Stornext volumes, choose the number of stripe groups available as the number of threads.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solesignal: SmartBackup uses its own custom sync engine which offers several performance advantages over other utilities. SmartBackup will immediately start copying data while it in parallel still analyses what has changed. SmartBackup&rsquo;s sync engine then uses multiple threads that copy files in parallel, squeezing the fastest possible performance out of your storage. This makes it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-10-11T22:31:30Z","apple_news_api_id":"bcda46ef-901a-486d-872c-71f9f3365f22","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-10-23T15:49:10Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AvNpG75AaSG2HLHH58zZfIg","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":[146,800,30,32,1609,608,1744,183],"class_list":["post-23057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-concurrency","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-14","tag-metadata","tag-smartbackup","tag-ssd"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23057","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=23057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23059,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23057\/revisions\/23059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}