{"id":30247,"date":"2020-09-25T16:43:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30247"},"modified":"2020-09-25T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:43:19","slug":"arq-7-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/25\/arq-7-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Arq 7 Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arqbackup.com\/blog\/next-up-arq-7\/\">Stefan Reitshamer<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arqbackup\/status\/1308155539453612033\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.arqbackup.com\/blog\/next-up-arq-7\/\"><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>At some point we tried prototyping Arq 6 as a &ldquo;native&rdquo; UI on macOS, and realized we like it a lot better.<\/p>\n<p>So, we decided to implement the entire UI as a &ldquo;native&rdquo; UI. It&rsquo;s got better keyboard navigation, it&rsquo;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s in private testing now. The data format and method of selecting backup items have been reworked <em>again<\/em>, and it fixes the annoying Arq 6 bug where unmounting an unrelated drive cancels all the in-progress backups.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/06\/advantages-of-the-arq-6-file-format\/\">Advantages of the Arq 6 File Format<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/04\/arq-and-time-machine-exclusions\/\">Arq and Time Machine Exclusions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/13\/arq-6\/\">Arq 6<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Reitshamer (tweet): 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 &ldquo;native&rdquo; UI on [&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":"2020-09-25T20:43:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"d4237b23-98a0-40b6-a05a-29fe33954969","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-09-25T20:43:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A1CN7I5igQLagWin-M5VJaQ","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":[203,146,30,32,1891],"class_list":["post-30247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-arq","tag-backup","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-11-0"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247","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=30247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30248,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247\/revisions\/30248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}