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Mike Campbell
Not being pleased with the current backup freeware I could find I wrote
my own that I use. I'd like to see if anyone would like to try it out
and see how they like it or have any suggestions.
Initially I needed the following features:
- No GUI interface
- Need not be running constantly but can be scheduled via windows scheduler
- User-defined ability to specify how many backups to keep
I accomplished the above but over time have added to the program so that
it now supports the following features:
Features
========
o Stores all backup configuration info in a single file
o Command-line debug switch (-d) for enabling verbose output
o The ability to send backup results to multiple user-defined email
addresses
o Can be exeucted via the windows scheduler on a regular basis
o Supports SMTP servers that require username/password authentication
o Supports SMTP server authentication types of LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, or PLAIN
o All passwords are stored in the config file in an encrypted format
o The maximum number of backups to keep can be defined in the config file
o The ability to specify what directory to write the backup log file to
o The ability to password protect the backup file
o Will attempt to automatically locate the current user's Outlook Express
email and address book files and add them to the backup
o The ability to write the backup file any available disk including
UNC drives, CD-ROMS (via Direct-CD type software), and mapped network
drives
o Compresses the files into a single ZIP file
o When run in debug mode the ZIP file is checked for validity
o The filename for the log file and the backup file can be generated using
user-defined substitution parameters
o The ability to exclude files based on regular expression pattern matching
I also have a version that will run on the linux platform and has mostly
the same features. Since this is not a GUI based program it should be
able to be compiled for any platform.
If anyone is interested in checking it out then please let me know by
sending an email to "oradba_us at yahoo dot com" (fix the email address
manually).
Thanks,
Mike Campbell
my own that I use. I'd like to see if anyone would like to try it out
and see how they like it or have any suggestions.
Initially I needed the following features:
- No GUI interface
- Need not be running constantly but can be scheduled via windows scheduler
- User-defined ability to specify how many backups to keep
I accomplished the above but over time have added to the program so that
it now supports the following features:
Features
========
o Stores all backup configuration info in a single file
o Command-line debug switch (-d) for enabling verbose output
o The ability to send backup results to multiple user-defined email
addresses
o Can be exeucted via the windows scheduler on a regular basis
o Supports SMTP servers that require username/password authentication
o Supports SMTP server authentication types of LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, or PLAIN
o All passwords are stored in the config file in an encrypted format
o The maximum number of backups to keep can be defined in the config file
o The ability to specify what directory to write the backup log file to
o The ability to password protect the backup file
o Will attempt to automatically locate the current user's Outlook Express
email and address book files and add them to the backup
o The ability to write the backup file any available disk including
UNC drives, CD-ROMS (via Direct-CD type software), and mapped network
drives
o Compresses the files into a single ZIP file
o When run in debug mode the ZIP file is checked for validity
o The filename for the log file and the backup file can be generated using
user-defined substitution parameters
o The ability to exclude files based on regular expression pattern matching
I also have a version that will run on the linux platform and has mostly
the same features. Since this is not a GUI based program it should be
able to be compiled for any platform.
If anyone is interested in checking it out then please let me know by
sending an email to "oradba_us at yahoo dot com" (fix the email address
manually).
Thanks,
Mike Campbell
