Confused on the correct way to backup all my devonthink data, advice appreciate :)

[chrk]

@svsmailus

So Arq should only to be used when DT is shut down.

As Jim mentioned, that’s not really necessary.

I just commented on this in another thread. Arq and Carbon Copy Cloner documentation also states that it doesn’t matter what you do while the backup is running. I even deleted a test database once while a backup was running and was able to restore it.

Backup Strategies

Given that Arq, Time Machine, and Carbon Copy Cloner* use snapshot based backups, there is no need to close any databases. I have DEVONthink open 24 hours and use all 3 backup apps mentioned. Since I use Arq with Google Cloud & Storj, that’s 4 backups per hour. Never once has this been an issue. You can even modify content in an open database while backups are running. Snapshot based backups are frozen in time, it doesn’t matter if data changes while backing up. (*when used with APFS volumes…