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Thanks for the response James! Just to be clear, I wasn't suggesting using WebDAV (unless I'm confused about what WebDAV is). Amazon S3 uses Representational State Transfer via the HTTP protocol (REST). Perhaps the distinction is irrelevant for the purposes of considering adding cloud backup to QRecall, I don't know. I have no idea of what your implementation is of your product, but it seems to me that it does share some common characteristics with Arq (de-duplication of data, packing/chunking, etc). Anyway, it is something to kick around. I suppose there is nothing keeping me from using Arq and QRecall in parallel, although in doing so I'd probably want to have some control over scheduling, so both products weren't trying to back up at the same time. Thanks again for the response.
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I'm still a Time Machine user, but those days are limited, for all the reasons and limitations that are well known about Time Machine. QRecall is on my short list (other two are Arq and rolling my own). What would make QRecall a slam dunk for me? Add Encryption (I've read that this is coming to the next major release, but haven't seen an ETA on when that will be). And essentially add the features of Arq. What makes Arq most attractive is that there is an open source tool to do restores (or, in your lingo, recalls). If you provided an open source tool to do recalls, then we can confidently use your software knowing that if some day you go away (for any reason), we aren't stuck with a blob of bits we can't reassemble. And Arq does online backups to Amazon S3, which is great because we can independently verify that our data is secure on our Amazon S3 accounts. I'd gladly pay a higher price tag for such a product that had the features of QRecall, stored my data in an encrypted format on a local volume or NAS, included an open source tool to perform restores, and included ability to keep offsite backups (with perhaps fewer snapshots to keep offsite storage costs lower).
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