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  1. doobydoooby

    Polar Backup Reneging on Lifetime backup deals

    Hi, anyone else affected by Polar Backup effectively cancelling its lifetime deals? Apparently, a lifetime is only 3 years these days. Thank God I'm still around. I'm still trying to get my head around how a firm can sell a lifetime offer and then only three years later demand a new monthly...
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    Warning: Arq Backup removes 'thinning'

    The newest version of Arq Backup (7.24.1) removes backup thinning. The release notes say: Removed the "thinning" function from backup plans. Too many people found backup records were permanently deleted that they weren't expecting to be deleted, and that's a really bad user experience, so we...
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    Carbon Copy Cloner - Snapshots / Backups and Ransomware infections

    Hello all, I hope that this is the right forum section I am looking at a backup solution and most of my research concludes that one of the best options is Carbon Cope Cloner, a software by bombich. As they state on their website, the app offers "Snapshots - Bring back files that you thought...
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    Backing up and restoring individual apps

    I am looking for suggestions for a backup service either Apple or some other that allows you to backup and restore individual apps? To my knowledge iCloud does not do this. I don’t care if I have to pay for it either. There has been several instances where I have had Apple Genius Bar...
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    List of apps installed

    hi, While I'm familiar with the merits of other backup systems/options, I use the rysnc backup utility to backup my documents. During a backup: How can I either take a backup list of all installed apps, preferably with their version numbers? or Which directory contains all my apps...