Subscribe to RSS Feed13 weeks agoA Revision of Plans
September is gone and we're still not in 1.0. The changes introduced seem to be too big to work all at once, and I'm already very eager to cut the new release, so instead of working on it until it's done (which we did up to this point), I'll scale the plans back a bit and will start backporting the new features one by one. This way we'll should get a more reliable release schedule and will be back on track shortly.
16 weeks agoSummer Hibernation
Hi everybody!
There were no updates for a long time, so what's going on? While due to some reasons, which I won't get into, not as much work happened in these months as I would have liked, nothing stood still either. The entire roadmap had to be readjusted, yet the planned feature and product list is the same.
First thing to happen will be a new S3 Backup version, a release candidate this time. Then, as soon as licensing system is ready we'll make a 1.0 release (for S3 Webmaster as well).
Mac and UNIX ports are getting some attention as well, but I can't promise a hasty release because I have to admit they aren't top priority right now. We'll make an announcement with estimated release schedule as soon we could make a commitment to one.
The FTP gateway application engine is ready but lacks the UI component and need some more work to make sure it can handle more than a couple users concurrently.
Also, Word to HTML needed a better UI for a long time, and I plan to get it one this fall.
There's more in the pipeline, but one of the reasons for a prolonged silence is that it's my policy to always favour showing results instead of talking about it. Anyway, I expect there will be a steady stream of announcements from this point on, so watch this space.
36 weeks agoS3 Backup Beta 14
See product page for download links.
Improvements
- Filedb uses SQLite
- Multiple concurrent backups don't interfere with each other
- Much smaller memory footprint for huge backup sets
- Even a violent crash / powerdown leaves filedb consistent and up-to-date
- Old XML-based database is imported automatically
- New backup job configuration UI
- Corrupted / out of date filedb does not require reuploads
Fixes
- Empty directories left behind
- KeyError: duplicate file name
- Multiple minor fixes
Known Issues
- Old corrupted XML databases might prevent the app from starting,
- If that happens to you just delete %appdata%/S3 Backup/hashdb.xml, the app will repair the db
51 weeks agoMandatory upgrade to Beta 13
Evidently Amazon changed S3 functionality a bit and PUT requests return a little different info, so everyone needs to update to a newer version. As this update is mandatory, I think it's good time to give this beta a new number even though it's not much different from the previous one. Please be advised that it has a few known bugs we are working to resolve so there will be a few bugfix releases following shortly after this one.
- January 11: revision 1321 – Forced S3 API update + misc bugfixes
- January 12: revision 1323 – Bugfix: bucket not changing
- January 16: revision 1368 – Bugfixes: propagate folder deletion; KeyError exceptions
- January 17: revision 1370 – Bugfix: make fewer remote deletions (keep empty folders)
- January 22: revision 1390 – Bugfix: more KeyError exceptions
55 weeks agoAmazon SimpleDB
Amazon SimpleDB is great news for us. It still hasn't launched, but as soon as it does we'll make sure to use it to the fullest potential to augment our backup products.