ARQ BACKUP MULTIPLE USERS ARCHIVE

In the end, you will have to trust that the Microsoft cloud servers will not delete your data (there is no guarantee): any cloud backup should be considered as an addition to a good local backup. Two of the many backup apps to consider are Arq Backup 7 and GoodSync See: Microsoft's account suspensions and the OneDrive 'nude' photos This is quite important because MS scans everything: apart from privacy issues, if their algorithm erroneously declares that you have “inappropriate content” your whole account can be irrevocably blocked (not just OneDrive, but Office, your MS email - everything) without any practical way to appeal. Moreover, a backup app can upload from different folders / disks (not just from the Onedrive folder) and encrypt the files before they leave the computer. (These files will not “sync down” from the cloud.) So if the last uploaded version of your file is corrupted you can restore one of its previous copies from the cloud.

The good thing is that the OneDrive cloud space can be used for real backup: you need a good backup app which will upload to the cloud multiple versions of your files in a customizable structured way. But the problem is that if any files are inadvertently deleted or corrupted anywhere, either because of a user error, a system / app glitch or ransom ware / virus, all the errors will sync up and down the cloud everywhere.

ARQ BACKUP MULTIPLE USERS ARCHIVE

That represents around a 2.5TB backup archive from what Arq 5 estimated before the upgrade. Not being suicidal this time, I tried it on my local iMac backup to my NAS. If your computer is stolen / destroyed then you can sync back from the Cloud the files - so it’s better than no (real) backup at all. After having lost all my backups in the Arq 6 debacle and still being very bitter about it, early this week I decided to give Arq 7 a try from the Arq 5 backups I made since.

The official MS / Win 1x built-in syncing app is very problematic, to put it mildly. OneDrive is not a backup - it’s a syncing service between you OneDrive folders on your computer(s) and the cloud.

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