Abakt - A Backup Tool
Free backup software, providing commandline options and advanced filtering.
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History

An overview of Abakt's progress.

The test-releases are here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~edienske/.
Release 0.8.12 ... (12-September-2004) ... Download Page
. . . Available for download: abakt-0.8.12.exe | abakt-0.8.12-src.zip
New Features
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Abakt stores the Data files (Profiles etc.) in the current user's "home" directory. On NT and XP systems this is in "Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Abakt\".
Previously existing Data files are automatically copied to the new location when upgrading from an older release. This requires starting Abakt without commandline parameters after Setup.
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Added a History section to the Destination page.
For every Profile you can set the amount of backups you wish to keep. And the amount of days you wish to keep them.
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New commandline option: -o "CustomFormatText"
This will enable 'Append Format Text' and override the 'Format Text' string. Only works for Profiles. See the manual for more information.
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Commandline: When calling Abakt with a filename without path-information, it will try to open the (.abp/.abg) file in the default Profile/Group directory.
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ActionType Zip: Added an option to modify the path information stored in a Zip Archive ('Store Path').
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Implemented: 'Remove Empty Directories' for Move/Delete operations.
Bugs Fixed
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The ArchiveMode setting was not set correctly when switching Profiles.
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Group Actions did not override the ArchiveMode setting.
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When replacing an existing Zip Archive, the archive was not 'really' replaced.
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ActionType Copy/Move: On Win95/98/Me systems some Microsoft API functions are not available. On those systems a simpler function will be called. These functions provide less progress information.
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Implemented workarounds to prevent errors like 'FunctionName is not available in KERNEL32.DLL'.
Applies to Win95/98/Me/NT systems.
Cosmetic Changes & Convenience
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Action Type Settings - Zip: Implemented an editor to set a Split Archive's Custom Size.
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When using 7-Zip to create an archive, it is no longer necessary to press the OK button to close the console window.
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Source - Files: When right-clicking empty space (no file selected) the popup assumes you mean to select any file ("*") in the current directory.
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Group: The "Override" page has a better readable display.
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Group: Profiles listed in a Group are not automatically sorted anymore. Click the right mouse button for a popup-menu that allows you to sort the list.
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Group: You can use drag & drop to change the order in which Profiles are executed.
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Preferences: Modified page "Logging".
Library Changes
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Using ecc 0.3.13.
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Release 0.8.11a ... (23-June-2004)
. . . Available for download: abakt-0.8.11a.exe | abakt-0.8.11a-src.zip
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Fixed a bug that made it difficult to upgrade from 0.8.10 to 0.8.11.
Release 0.8.11 ... (19-June-2004)
. . . Available for download: abakt-0.8.11.exe | abakt-0.8.11-src.zip

0.8.11 Summary of changes
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Many bugs have been fixed.
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Some new features have been added.
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The layout of the application has changed.
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Most of the fundamental changes to Abakt's datastructures have been implemented.
Abakt is now better prepared for future changes and improvements.
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Older profiles (.abp files) will be auto-converted. Except the very old ones.
Please read the messages Abakt displayed in the Status panel when you open a profile.
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Thanks to all the people who posted bug-reports and suggestions:
your support is very valuable - Erik.

0.8.11 More specific changes
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Renamed most occurences of the term 'Backup' to 'Action'.
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To conform with 'standard' Windows F#-keys functions, I rearranged the hotkeys that provide quick access to the main pages.
See the main menu 'View'.
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Implemented ActionType 'File Operation', with methods: Copy, Move Delete.
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Redesigned the Group window. It is now possible to override any setting of the selected Profiles.
Important: check your older groups.
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Adding a new mask using the right-mouse popup on Source/Files, optionally let's you edit/discard this mask.
You can turn off this option using the right-mouse popup-menu on the panel 'Source/Files'.
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Modified the BrowseForFolder behaviour.
See 'Preferences/Application/Use New UI BrowseForFolder'.
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Preferences: Implemented custom-defined Profile to be opened on startup.
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Action Type 7-Zip is better supported.
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A new type of BrowseForFolder is used.
Uncheck 'Use New UI BrowseForFolder' on the Preferences 'Application' window if this does not work well on your system.
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Profiles with Source Root Directories of type Single will not be converted anymore.
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Removed QuickSettings. They will be replaced with Templates in the future.
The existing QuickSettings have been replaced with 'Archive Mode'.
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Using ecc-0.3.9.
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Using expat-1.95.7.
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Using ZipForge 2.54.
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Using StripReloc.exe (http://www.jrsoftware.org/) to reduce the size of Abakt.exe.
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Using NSIS 2 (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/home/) to create the installer.