Areca backup tool

webfork · **Posted:** Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:16 pm

A GPLv2 backup tool. http://www.areca-backup.org/

Requires Java but I didn't get far enough in the test to try out the jPortable package with this. Program was a little more confusing than I was willing to wrestle with today.

Not Portable: Write logs and a preferences file to \Documents and Settings\USER\.areca.

joby_toss · **Posted:** Tue Aug 30, 2011 3:35 am

Good news from the devs:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/ ... ic/4072407

Quote:

this is now available in v7.2.2
Just add -ws=<path to your workspace> and / or -cfg=<path to ".areca" subdirectory> as arguments

Going to test it now.

Later edit: using a simple .bat file like this does the trick!

Code:

@echo off
start areca.exe -ws=. -cfg=.
end

So, thank you, Areca developers!

Now, the only question is: How do we start Areca using a custom Java installation path?

webfork · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:40 pm

Program is now at 7.2.5. I'm going to give it another try along with jPortable and see what I can figure out.

webfork · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 6:51 pm

WinPenPack is offering a version: X-Areca V. 7.2.3 http://www.winpenpack.com/en/download.php?view.1327 ... Unfortunately it's a bit out of date (current is 7.2.10, updated in June 2012).

lautrepay · **Joined:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:31 am **Posts:** 646

webfork wrote:

WinPenPack is offering a version: X-Areca V. 7.2.3 http://www.winpenpack.com/en/download.php?view.1327 ... Unfortunately it's a bit out of date (current is 7.2.10, updated in June 2012).

Probably the launcher still works. You can test it moving new version Areca's program files to the bin folder and overwritting the old ones.
By the way, if you use jPortable and some winPenPack's java-based programs (or vice versa), it's easy to share the java installation using symbolic links to save some disk space.

webfork · **Posted:** Mon Dec 31, 2012 1:42 pm

Old thread update:

lautrepay wrote:

webfork wrote:

WinPenPack is offering a version: X-Areca V. 7.2.3 http://www.winpenpack.com/en/download.php?view.1327 ... Unfortunately it's a bit out of date (current is 7.2.10, updated in June 2012).

Probably the launcher still works. You can test it moving new version Areca's program files to the bin folder and overwritting the old ones.

I just found out that Areca will do incremental backups based on file changes rather than whether or not the entire file has changed. That's great news. Going to see what I can do with that for sync purposes rather than purely backup uses.

Unfortunately, the same problem is present with X-Areca (v.7.2.3) lagging behind Areca official (v.7.2.17).

lautrepay wrote:

By the way, if you use jPortable and some winPenPack's java-based programs (or vice versa), it's easy to share the java installation using symbolic links to save some disk space.

Can you post a little more about that?

SYSTEM · **Posted:** Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:18 am

webfork wrote:

lautrepay wrote:

By the way, if you use jPortable and some winPenPack's java-based programs (or vice versa), it's easy to share the java installation using symbolic links to save some disk space.

Can you post a little more about that?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link.

To create a symbolic link, you can do something like

Code:

mklink /d \X-LibreOffice\Lib\Java \CommonFiles\Java

Note the order of parameters.

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3727

Before XP users start asking why it doesn't work for them, mklink is available on Vista and above.

Midas · **Posted:** Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:55 am

guinness wrote:

Before XP users start asking why it doesn't work for them, mklink is available on Vista and above.

XP users might want to have a look at freeware (but non-portable) Hard Link Shell Extension's documentation for an alternative:

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html#symboliclinksforwindowsxp

Hermann Schinagl wrote:

[Midas edited] Technically it seems that NTFS5 as shipped with Windows XP has always supported symbolic links, but the functionality was not available for user mode applications, not even for the upper layers of ntfs.sys. But there are filter drivers available from Masatoshi Kimura which enable symbolic links under XP. These drivers can be downloaded from his home page for 32/64 bit. Sources are also available.

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