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FileBackup is an easy-to-use backup and restore utility with graphical user interface. It supports patch backups, soft and hard links, has an ability to backup to a standard ZIP file, on a removable disk, FTP server or Tape unit. You can easily 'teach' the program how to do the hard work, then you make your backups in a few steps.
You can download the newest version here.
You have to download fileback.tgz and extract all files from it at a separate directory. Read readme.txt file for more information.
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The Software can be started in 2 modes:
First of all, you have to configure FileBackup. The simplest way to do it is start the Software in the GUI mode and click Settings... item at the File menu. Another way is to edit fileback.conf file. It contains all settings. When you use GUI mode, FileBackup edits fileback.conf file. Click here to read a detailed description about "fileback.conf" file. Each user can have own fileback.conf file with its own settings. Just make a local copt of the file at "~/FileBackup/" directory.
When you use the GUI mode Software copies sample.bs file to a new one with the name you entered. You can create a new Backup Set manually by coping sample.bs file to a new one. Read more about a Backup Set file.
All properties of a Backup Set are in a special file (bsfile). You can have any number of these files, but in the GUI mode you can work only with files, which are in the FileBackup subdirectory of your home directory. When you use GUI mode to edit a Backup Set, FileBackup edits one of these files. Click here to read a full description of bsfile.
There are 2 backup types:
Again you have 2 ways to run backup: in GUI mode (press Backup button at the main window or from command line (use -bf or -bi switches). When you run backup manually we recommend you to use the GUI mode. To run scheduled backups use the command line mode.
When you backup to FTP Server and perform a full backup, FileBackup allows you to create a new FTP Folder with an unique name (in addition to Backup Set title it has a date and time of creation) and move all previously created backup archives there. When a full backup is finished successfully, you can safely delete that folder. BUT BE VERY CAREFUL! DON'T DELETE FOLDERS, WHICH HAVEN'T DATE AND TIME IN THE NAME!
As a result of backup, FileBackup creates a number of archives and files with cat extension. These are catalog files. They contain list of all backed up files and will be used to perform restore. Be very careful with backup archives because if you lose any of them, you WON'T be able to restore files, which were in the lost backup archives.
To do restore you need actual set of catalog files on the local filesystem. That's why every time when you start restore, FileBackup asks you to download catalog files. After that FileBackup asks you some questions to perform restore and starts a resore process.
We recommend you to use GUI mode to perform restore. In this mode FileBackup allows you to select files to restore from the list of backed up files. That's very easy! In the text mode FileBackup saves a list of all backed up files to a file and allows you to select which of them you want to restore.
After restore we recommend you to check logs!
In GUI mode Software shows a dialog with a well-organized tree of log messages. It's very comfortable to view it in this mode! When you use the text mode Software prints tree-organized log messages to standard output. Use this mode in shell scripts.
After many backup session the log file can be very big. To delete the file use the Clear logs... command from Sets menu or -el switch of command line.