Arq Upload Statistics

Updated Feb 2021 to support Arq 7

Reads you Arq Backup upload logs and outputs the most frequently uploaded files

In Arq Backup Plan, Edit, Options, Enable Include list of uploaded files...

Sample Output

Top 5 Most Frequent Uploads
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9544 /Users/zzz/dev/next/.idea/workspace.xml
4486 /Users/zzz/Library/Calendars/FBF01D115.calendar/Info.plist
1355 /Users/zzz/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.apple.syncedpreferences.plist
1216 /Users/zzz/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library.itl
 780 /Users/zzz/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.apple.security.cloudkeychainproxy3.plist

Installation

• Clone this repository
• Install the Perl CPAN Time::ParseDate module: cpan Time::ParseDate
• In Arq application Preferences, Advanced, set Log Level to Detail
  • Note: If you didn't have Detail level before you will need to let Arq backup for a while to get data to analyze
• Adjust the $since variable in upload-parse.pl to your liking
  • Default is to analyze data from the last 30 days
• Adjust the count and path in upload-stats.sh as needed
  • Default count is top 50 items
  • Default path is /Library/Logs/ArqAgent/*.log
• Open a Terminal, cd to the cloned directory, run upload-stats.sh