{"id":51833,"date":"2026-05-07T14:08:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51833"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:08:32","slug":"arq-restore-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/07\/arq-restore-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Arq Restore Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wincent.dev\/blog\/arq-restore\">Greg Hurrell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/wincent.dev\/blog\/arq-restore\">\n<p>The other backup tool that has saved my hide in the past is SuperDuper!, but on this occasion I didn&rsquo;t have access to my physical (SuperDuper!) backup, so restoring from the cloud (Arq) was my only option.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Arq used all the memory on the system, requiring me to start again[&#8230;] Restarting is a bit annoying, because I use Glacier storage for my backups, meaning that you can&rsquo;t just start downloading the data from the cloud; instead, you request for it to be made available and then wait 5 hours before actually beginning the download. Downloading from Glacier also hurts the wallet a bit, to the tune of about a hundred bucks for all the retrieval costs associated with the repeated attempts.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of apps that you have to open or twiddle in order to get things working, even though Homebrew installs them[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Backup and restore have definitely gotten easier over the years, but whether on iOS or macOS restoring is never as smooth as you&rsquo;d hope.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/31\/parachute-backup-acquired\/\">Parachute Backup Acquired<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/04\/superduper-3-12\/\">SuperDuper 3.12<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/19\/backblaze-no-longer-backs-up-dropbox\/\">Backblaze No Longer Backs Up Dropbox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/02\/carbon-copy-cloner-7-1-3\/\">Carbon Copy Cloner 7.1.3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/13\/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-permissions-requests\/\">A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Permissions Requests<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/15\/arq-7\/\">Arq 7<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Hurrell: The other backup tool that has saved my hide in the past is SuperDuper!, but on this occasion I didn&rsquo;t have access to my physical (SuperDuper!) backup, so restoring from the cloud (Arq) was my only option. [&#8230;] Arq used all the memory on the system, requiring me to start again[&#8230;] Restarting is [&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":"2026-05-07T18:08:36Z","apple_news_api_id":"ad380ce9-ba58-4a19-9acf-eaeb1c30e170","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-05-07T18:08:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ArTgM6bpYShmaz-rrHDDhcA","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":[20,203,146,30,2742],"class_list":["post-51833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-glacier","tag-arq","tag-backup","tag-mac","tag-macos-tahoe-26"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51833","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=51833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51834,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51833\/revisions\/51834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}