Distribution Summary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GRBack20.zip GRBack: Backup utility for Windows NT/95/98 v2.00 Size( compressed/Not compressed): 373K/793K Date: 28/12/1997 Category: Win95/NT, utility, file utility, disk utility, system utility Replace files: GRBack19.zip, GRBack18.zip, GRBack17.zip. Review ~~~~~~~ GRBack (by GRSoftware) is a full functional Shareware Windows NT/95/98 backup program that can help you maintain your vital computer data. It recreate your source directory tree into the destination drive and for every directory it create a PKZIP 2.0 compatible archive with long file name support. You can do a full, incremental or differential backup of your data. You can schedule your backup with the aid of the Microsoft System Agent (SAGE) under Windows 95 or using the Microsoft AT utility under Windows NT. Fully configurable with simple text files. The program comes with a setup program that allows you to install, evaluate and unistall the package leaving your system clean. Description ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Follows tha major GRBack features: * Support for network and removable drives (floppy, Iomega ZIP/JAZ and other similar ). * Can spawn on multiple removable media. * Fully customizable: include, exclude files, skip directories. * Fully Microsoft System Agent (SAGE) aware (Windows 95). * Fully support VFAT long file names. * Backup modes are: Full, Incremental and Differential. * Allows you to copy files instead of compress them. * Recreate exactly your source directory structure so that you can easily navigate into the backup archives. * Create PKZIP 2.0 compatible archives with long file names. * Synchronize you backup archives with your source files. * Quick and background run. * All backup activities are notified into a detailed log file. * Easy registration with emailed personal key file. What's New ~~~~~~~~~~~ This version is a major update to GRBack version 1.90. This program will be a Lite version in the future when the GRBack Professional version (3.xx) will be released. This program will be maintained for all the users that do not need the professional options but want a more simple backup program. Follows the list of the news: * added an option to exclude files whose date is before a specified date into the "Advanced Options" dialog. This option takes priority over all other options for the selection of the files to backup. * added a new dialog box when the disk full condition is reached. This new dialog allows a better handle of the change of the destination disk. * added an option to synchronize the content of the backup archive with the source. When you delete a source file and you want to automatically delete the same file from the backup archive you can now enable this option. * added a test to verify if the destination disk is ready. Added a dialog box to ask for a disk before to start instead of quit the program. * added the copy of the directories attributes on the destination disk. * added a new backup mode: differential. This mode is based upon the archive attribute bit and stores all the files that have the archive attribute bit on. * improvement: if the destination disk does not support the long file names GRBack now creates the destination directories using the alias short name. Also it automatically forces the creation of the $backup.dir files and store inside them the long file name and the alias file name so that restoring with the right name will be more easy. * improvement: more diagnostic messages on the log file. * fixed a bug handling filenames with special characters like "…—Š" in the name. * fixed a bug when compression is disabled and the source files are only copied. * fixed a bug for the option "Include System/Hidden Files" that was not correctly saved/restored. * fixed a bug adding a task into the windows 95 SAGE task list. * fixed a bug if the specified compressor temporary path end with the characters '\' or '/'. * fixed a date/time bug inside the $backup.dir files. * fixed the "Scan Drives" button so that it does no more add the floppy drives into the job list. * moved the "Archive mode" group box from the "Zip Compressor" dialog to the "Backup" dialog renaming it as "Backup method". * moved the option "clear the source archive attribute" from the "Advanced Options" dialog to the "Backup" dialog. * moved the option "Include System/Hidden Files" from the "Zip Compressor" dialog to the "Advanced Options" dialog. * while handling the disk full condition is now possible to clean up the destination disk before to continue the backup. The new backup methods behave as follows: * Full: clear any previous archive or file and recreate the new backup. * Update (Incremental): updates the backup archives copying any new or modified file. * Archive bit logic(Differential): update the backup archive if the source file has the archive attribute bit on despite of its date. Evolution ~~~~~~~~~~ GRSoftware is working on a new Professional version of the program whose name is GRBackPro. GRBack Professional edition is a big enhancement of GRBack. The program is designed with a completely new user interface and has the many options that a professional user usually ask for. The program will do all what GRBack do with the following improvements: * a more complete and flexible user interface. * the possibility to select a single folder or even a single file to backup. * an integrated restore facility. * an integrated scheduler. * a report dialog to easy the view and extract of your backup activities. * live in the background and is activable from your tray icon bar. Visit http://www.grsoftware.net to download the beta version. Install ~~~~~~~~ Unzip the distribution archive and run the setup.exe program. This program will copy all the needed files where you want and will register the program on your system. This setup program allows you to add a desktop icon, and to list the program into the "Start Menu" or into the "Start Menu\Programs" menu. It also registers itself into the Control Panel to allow a quick and full Remove. Remove ~~~~~~~ From the "Control Panel" - "Add/Remove Programs" you can quickly remove the program (completely) from your system how the Windows 95 standard requires. License ~~~~~~~~ This is NOT FREE software. This license allows you to use this software for evaluation purposes without any charge for a period of 30 days. If you use this software after the 30 days evaluation period a registration is required (see the help file for details on how to). I recommend you to register the program ONLY after you have full tested it on your system as this shareware version behaves exactly as the registered version. Registration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks to the growing interest and to better promote this product, this version is licensed at ONLY 29US$ (site licenses 800US$ and world-wide licenses 2000US$). Register immediately: do not lose this unique occasion! Credit cards supported: VISA, Master Card, American Express, Discovery and Dinners Club. You can also register this product directly on the WEB: http://order.kagi.com/?LU with a secured transfer protocol, or by phone: +1 (510) 658-5244. NOTE: registrations by email will not be accepted if coming from anonymous email addresses. Disclaimer of Warranty ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This software and the accompanying files are provided "as are" and without warranties as to performance of merchantability or any other warranties whether expressed or implied. Because of the various hardware and software environments into which this software may be put, no warranty of fitness for a particular purpose is offered. Please use the Shareware concept and extensively try this software before to buy it. Any liability of the seller will be limited exclusively to product price refund. This software is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that The Shareware Principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 157-F Love Ave. Greenwood, IN 26142 USA, FAX 317-888-2195 or send email to omb@asp-shareware.org. Distribution ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Freely distributable as soon as the files inside the compressed archive aren't modified in any way. Other text file can be added to the archive. Please contact the author for written permission. Author information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ing. Roberto Grassi P.O.BOX 48, 10096 Leumann (Torino) ITALY, EUROPE. Internet E-Mail : grsoft@kagi.com, support@grsoftware.net WWW home pages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.grsoftware.net http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4866 http://www.ipsnet.it/ospiti/grsoftware http://www.bsoftware.com/cgi-bin/fetchsan.cgi?AuthorID=499,LocationID=1 http://mini.net/cgi-bin/sax?2347 Internet Download URLs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.grsoftware.net/grback20.zip http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4866/grback20.zip http://www.ipsnet.it/ospiti/grsoftware/grback20.zip Alternative public download sites: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/diskutl/grback20.zip ftp://ftp.coast.net/pub/coast/win95/sysutil/grback20.zip ftp://ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/win95/dskutil/grback20.zip http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/diskutl/grback20.zip http://www.winsite.com/win95/dskutil/grback20.zip