New Installation Package - 2.5.3 Rev1

We have a new Installation Package,
      Besides of reducing its size from 990K to 770K, introduces more control over the changes the install will create in your computer. Now the user can decide what to do.

Today ABS 2.5.3 RC1 is out! You can get a copy from http://gofile.me/28SxZ/nWwndEOm (link will expire in a month)

Known Issues
ABS will search for updates every minute! This can be deactivated from the menu.
Re-Sync profile is not 100% implemented.
The menu is there but not enabled yet.
We tested the installation in windows XP and seems to work. We still need to test it in Vista, and Win 7.

Best Regards,

Bug Discovered - FIXED 2.5.3 rev1

Hello,
      We have made some progress developing 2.5.3, while doing so discovered and fixed a bug.

Pre-requisites: Backup destination target something like F:\ or E:\, or anything in the root. Delete files option activated.
Behavior: ABS will backup all folders but delete all files. The root path was confusing ABS to think file was deleted from source; therefore, deleting ALL files from destination.

Problem Fixed now this should not happen anymore. It is HIGHLY recommended to upgrade to 2.5.3.

News/Enhancements from the new Build.

• New menu Re-Sync profiles: now users will be able to re-sync source and destination. This for always on destination/source should not be necessary. However, network locations and USB should definitively need to be re-sync time-to-time.
• Crash plan is already implemented/working! This will work in conjunction with the aforementioned. If ABS crashed, then source and destination will be re-sync and no need to start backup from scratch.

ABS R&D is active again!!!

ABS 2.5.3 is close to be released

We're so happy to share some news about 2.5.3 (candidate). introducing several improvements over GA 2.5.1.

• New context menu functionality, more internal DLL streamlined/improved yielding an even smaller overall size. More flexibility to activate/deactivate automatic updates.
• More importantly, ABS will have a crash plan procedure now! If the backup gets interrupted by a crash or laptop runs out of battery! ABS will recognized the last profile ABS was working on, and there will be no need to start the backup from the begging again!!!
• Now ABS will have a re-sync capability to update .scn files and update any file copied or not copied and not being recorded/logged in the .scn. This is a huge improvement as we identify the .scn could potentially get out of sync (Source and Destination); hence, destination folder will not be a perfect image/backup of the source directory.

Hi there, After a good seven months we're back dusting-off ABS code and trying to improve once again.

We have identified ABS would benefit great time from a crash recovery algorithm, especially is ABS is stopped/interrupted or had a crush in the middle of 4Gig backup. At that point, we will have to start over and re-copy/move all 4Gig again. 
               This is even more critical if we manually shutdown ABS and after three months, we start again ABS, it should be capable of re-analyse the folder and see what changed since last time ABS was active!!!

We're working on ABS 2.5.3, on top of the above, we're adding like always more features to this great software.

Bug Discovered in 2.5.1

Hello Friends,

      First and foremost I would like to thanks Aaron Yarbough and Samer from freewaregenious.com as they discovered a bug while installing and running ABS 2.5.1

We will be releasing 2.5.2 soon; we need to verify our workaround works as expected.

It seems windows has changed significantly security rules in "Program Files" area. Have in mind, ABS is a portable application, installed or better say copied into "Program Files". What that means, you can copy the whole folder to a thumb drive or USB memory and it should run fine. ABS was designed to have little to non interaction with the windows registry. Now, since ABS is storing all reports and files index-files reports in "Program Files" the security kicks-in and stops the execution.

Fortunately this is fixable with an external file read

Create "Application Manifest File" as described in following article
http://www.developerfusion.com/code/7987/making-a-net-app-run-on-vista-with-administrator-priviledges/

or a formal explanation from Microsoft,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx

The above issue should not be a problem in XP or less secured Windows 7 systems!!!

ABS ranked in the top 4 best free solution @BrotherSoft.

 Hello Friends!
         I wanted to share with all of you this terrific news! ABS 2.5.1 was voted and ranks within the top 4 best Automatic Backup solutions!!! @BrotherSoft.

New Version 2.5.1!

Our Testing friend Jose Mitjavilla, reported 2 bugs and we responded with version 2.5.1.

First MANY thanks to Jose Mitjavilla testing ABS and more importantly reporting all problems and feedback.

Bug Detected (Category = Minor affecting UI not ABS operations)
* FIXED - UI configuration does not load backup day correctly. The backup configuration, was not loading the selected and saved date, instead was displaying Sunday for all backups regardless of the real date configured. This was not affecting the backups as the information was right, the display was the one with the bug. Thanks Jose Mitjavilla.
* FIXED - UI Configuration didn't show the backup configuration steps' count right. This situation was discovered when creating new profiles; the counter will show "Step 4 of 3" instead of "Step 3 of 3". This situation was solved, and the step count should be ok now. Thanks Jose Mitjavilla
* FIXED - Live Update, under certain conditions ABS will check for an update every minute and not  in the default 45 days. This was fixed and now ABS should only check for new version when the      predefined timer (in days) expires.