I love Backblaze. It’s easy to setup and forget. But Backblaze has few edge cases:
- Doesn’t backup volumes with Time Machine backup even if there’s some other data too
- Doesn’t backup network volumes
- Data is in US
- Only backups files and not any metadata – doesn’t work for restore, only data loss
Whereas Arq does these and much more:
- You own your own data – and pay to Amazon for it
- Support for multiple computers – only Macs
- Hourly, daily and weekly backups
- Dependent on your credit card but so is Backblaze
- Is compatible with FileVault: It doesn’t backup sparse bundles but files are encrypted anyway
Since you host your own data on Amazon, there’s no possibility to have it shipped in a USB drive. Feature that sounds awesome but you’ll probably download the data before the drive arrives to Finland from US. Arq also has proven case where you can restore a system in steps!