BackupChanges
There are two problems that webmaster or simple user might face every day.
The BackupChanges software is automatic software for backup
of changed or new files. The variety of settings allow specifying
what files to backup, where put them and how to run backup quickly any
time you need. The software is great choice for changed files
management, in a case there is a need to backup files, upload changed
documents to the web or send changed files to colleague.
With BackupChanges one can specify files that need to be copied into
archive. Typically, it is enough to specify the source folder and
nothing else. There are also many options to fine-tune the backup, for instance, user can specify the include and exclude file masks.
Resulted files will be packed into archive, so there is also an option
to specify how to keep files in archive, e.g. using relative path or
absolute path.
As the program focuses on changed and new files, there is a possibility to specify the time period for which changed files should be copied to archive.
The easiest way is to use some predefined intervals, for instance
for last 3 days. If necessary, the precise date and time interval can
be specified. The predefined choices include minutes, hours, days,
weeks, months, years.
Resulted file archive is a zip file, which can be managed with any popular archiving software or server-based file manager. The name of resulted file can be generated automatically using the source folder name and date/time stamp.
As for destination directory user have an opportunity to add more than
one record. This is useful, if the changed files should be sent to
flash-drive for emergency backup, to hard drive for long-term backup and
a copy to the desktop, for future uploading online or sending to
co-worker.
All these features might sound complicated for use every day, so there
is one extremely useful feature. Once user fine tuned the backup
project as needed, the batch file can be generated. Next time the user will need a backup, he or she will simply run the batch file.
All necessary parameters will be passed to the program automatically.
In this way managing new or changed files is as easy as one click.
What possible applications are there for this program? Who might need this software?
- The BackupChanges software will find useful anyone who involved in
document management process. For instance, software developers might
exchange some source codes, while powerful CVS system might not be
suitable for project scale, the automated exchange of changed files
will significantly simplify the process.
- Web-masters or web-designers use web authoring software to manage
files off-line. Actually, there are a lot of files, pictures, scripts,
pages, and so on. Most of them are small, but still required to be
uploaded to the web-server. With BackupChanges the upload process is
much easier, as uploading one big archive and then unpacking it online
is less time consuming than uploading smaller files.
Finally, there is a possibility of data loss. Sure, today hard drives
are much more reliable, but most data losses occurs due to user’s
action, e.g. making some wrong changes to file, accidentally deletion
of files and so on. With BackupChanges dropping a copy of work project
to the flash drive is really easy.