![]() When ARQ starts running, it looks for all these external drives which it has a record for such as /volumes/backupA, /volumes/backupB. But if I just think the function of the main drive is to boot the computer with the OS and run the ARQ program, then my problem seems to go away. I misunderstood and had regarded the Mac's main drive in which the OS and ARQ program reside as a drive with a name, just like any other external drive. I have been thinking what u said all night and I believe I finally understand what my problem was. Ur answers have been informative and educational for me and I sincerely thank u for ur time! Now I have a good understanding of how to use an external drive for ARQ backup. Thank you for ur instant and detailed reply and screen shots on how to use external drives, as well as answering my other questions. If you have Arq on multiple computers it will save the data based on the computer. I think Arq support thinks HD2 is internal. No need to have the Second Mac back up the external drive to the cloud if the first Mac is backing it up to the cloud. In your case - if you're using an external drive on two separate Macs - only have one of them with Arq backing up the external drive to the cloud. I believe in backing up many times because redundancy is cheap and I only have 180GB. My Work Laptop backs up to Google Drive (different account). My Work PC backs up to several external drives. ![]() I have Arq running on my Mac Mini (above), my Macbook Air (laptop), my Work PC, and my Work Laptop (PC). I don't think Arq treats external/internal drives differently - all it is is a location to Arq. In my case: /Volumes/Mac StorageĪll Arq support is saying is, if you create a clone copy (by cloning the hardrive of a Mac to a separate Mac) - you don't want both of those Macs backing up with Arq at the same time (they will have the same encryption key and computer name). In Arq's reply to you, /Volumes/thing - thing will change based on the drive's name. So depending on the name of the drive, it will be a separate entry. Does backing up to two cloud providers provides more safety to data lost? On another matter, I understand that u are backing up to more than one cloud providers and also understand that most cloud providers employ RAID to safeguard their data. DO NOT DO THIS."ĭoes his answer means ARQ treats external drive and internal drive differently? "If you create a clone of a Mac that has Arq installed, the second Mac will start using the same backup set as the first Mac, and they will corrupt each other. I don't really understand what this means. If you mount a drive at /Volumes/thing and back it up, and then unplug it and mount a different drive at /Volumes/thing, Arq will back the new drive up as /Volumes/thing." "ARQ backs up whatever paths you tell it to back up. Yes?īut I believe that is not the case as I asked ARQ support this question and his answer was: When the Mac2 is powered up, ARQ should not run as ARQ's scheduler is looking for the source named HD1, but can not find it. I have an spare drive named HD2 and I make a clone of HD1. This Mac1's main drive is called Macintosh HD1. I have a Mac1 and ARQ is doing hourly backup. From ur answer, ARQ identifies drives by their names. I am very confused about how ARQ identifies an internal or external drive. Only if not too much trouble, screen shots will help me more. ![]() Then test the SSD to see if full restore does work. Able to disable ARQ's upload and put ARQ on manual will allow me to do a full restore from ARQ backup in the cloud to the SSD. ![]() (1) before turning on the test Mac with the SSD (with ARQ running) as an external drive, shut off the house wifi (2) turn on the Mac and hit ARQ's "stop", if it attempts to upload (3) go to ARQ preference and select "manual" (4) turn on house wifi.Īlso I have been using ARQ to backup the entired Mac instead of the home folder and for a long time I have not been able to test if the backup actually works. As a result, I have not been able to test if the SSD is working as an externally boot drive unless I can stop ARQ from uploading to the cloud.ĪRQ support agreed that these steps will stop ARQ from uploading during the test: I was so scared that I shut down the SSD immediately because it might ruin the ARQ backup in the cloud. The first time when I used the SSD (with ARQ's scheduler running) to boot another Mac, ARQ in the SSD started to backup to the cloud (without asking for another password as mentioned by BigMcGuire). This SSD can be used to externally boot another Mac in case I lose my main Mac. In addition to ARQ and time machine, I also do a daily backup of my entired Mac (which has ARQ working) using carbon copy cloner on a 1TB Samsung T5 SSD. The reason I asked these question was I wish to test an SSD (with ARQ running) as an externally boot drive. BigMcGuire, Thanks for ur time to answer my ignorant questions and I appreciate it.
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