jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

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Re: jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

#226 Post by Midas »

jabuTBackup wrote: If you were not using include and exclude file lists before and also not custom commands for running programs before and after a profile run you are fine.
Hi. That is in fact the case here.

My system is a Windows 7 x64 SP1 with slight modifications, mainly to the UI -- stuff like Classic Shell and XP SkinPack that was never a problem in the (many!) years I've been running it.

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Re: jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

#227 Post by jabuTBackup »

This is interesting. I will have a look in the server itself. Maybe it modified date/time values of the files or a download went wrong.

Is it working now? You can test that by simply deleting the settings converter exe file and firing up the updater. Just execute the settings converter. If just nothing happens, everything is fine.
The settings converter looks for directories in jaBuT\profile-meta\*. If there is nothing it will just do nothing and disappear from the taskmanager / process explorer.

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Re: jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

#228 Post by Midas »

jabuTBackup wrote: Is it working now? You can test that by simply deleting the settings converter exe file and firing up the updater. Just execute the settings converter. If just nothing happens, everything is fine.
Apparently -- I haven't run any of the profiles thoroughly, but the program starts and everything works as expected.

I did delete the settings converter file, which btw didn't have the regular icon. Then I launched the updater, which just launched the main program.

I manually looked for updates and it did find one, albeit with the same version as the current program.

After the update and restart, there was no error and the settings converter now has the red J icon.

So all of this might just have been a fluke where one executable got mangled somehow. :roll:

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Re: jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

#229 Post by jabuTBackup »

Update time!

Update 2019.04.25767 has just been released and contains several HighDPI fixes, an fixed access violation and some minor fixes which are still important.

Download : https://jabut.de/en/download/#download
Changelog: https://jabut.de/en/changelog-release/#v20190425701


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Hello everyone. I've implemented some fixes related to Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP scaling issues on DPI > 100%.
If you are using one of these systems you can easily reproduce this issue: set up your DPI on anything higher than 100%, open jaBut Backup, close it and open it again. The window should now be smaller than before.
This is related to some Windows scaling issues which have never been solved until Windows 10 unfortunately.

Update coming soon. I will write it down in this post.

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Re: jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

#230 Post by jabuTBackup »

Update time!

Update 2019.04.25859 has just been released and contains some minor changes which are important anyways.
Furthermore I've added the ability to enable and disable profiles using the user interface. The log viewer has been changed too. You can now display logs for a specific profile.
This feature is not final. The GUI needs some changes to be optimally usable.

A disabled profile will be removed from the profile queue if it's queued for execution. Furthermore if it's a automated profile the automatisation will be suspended. The time the profile is deactivated will be added.
Let's say you have an automated profile which would normally be executed at 02:05 AM and you deactivate it at 02:00 AM. If you let it deactivated for 30 minutes now, these 30 minutes will be added to the original execution time. The next execution after re-enabling the profile after 30 minutes will then be at 02:35.

Download : https://jabut.de/en/download/#download
Changelog: https://jabut.de/en/changelog-release/#v20190525859

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Re: jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

#231 Post by jabuTBackup »

Update time!

Update 2019.05.25867 has just been released and has a new, more modern looking splash screen.
This is nothing special but hey, every step forward is a good step!

Download : https://jabut.de/en/download/#download
Changelog: https://jabut.de/en/changelog-release/#v20190525867

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Re: jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

#232 Post by Bonaparte »

2019.05.25867 64bit fails to compress (both "Compress" and "Exact compress") a directory with 67000 files (10 Gb) with the error:

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28.01.2020 19:22:46   |   [Error] Insufficient disk space to complete operation.
28.01.2020 19:22:46   |   [Information] Thread 1 cancelled
28.01.2020 19:22:47   |   [Error] Profile "Portable Apps.7z" can not be executed because of an unknown error.
Tested it with an external USB drive and SSD, both working correctly and having more than enough of free space.

With 7-zip, this happens after ~25% of progress. ZIP fails immediately.

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Re: jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

#233 Post by billon »

Bonaparte wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:27 am a directory with 67000 files (10 Gb)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_(file_format)#Limits wrote: The maximum size for both the archive file and the individual files inside it is 4 GiB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_(file_format)#ZIP64 wrote: The original .ZIP format had a 4 GiB limit on various things (uncompressed size of a file, compressed size of a file, and total size of the archive), as well as a limit of 65,535 entries in a ZIP archive

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Re: jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

#234 Post by Bonaparte »

billon wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:36 pm
Bonaparte wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:27 am a directory with 67000 files (10 Gb)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_(file_format)#Limits wrote: The maximum size for both the archive file and the individual files inside it is 4 GiB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_(file_format)#ZIP64 wrote: The original .ZIP format had a 4 GiB limit on various things (uncompressed size of a file, compressed size of a file, and total size of the archive), as well as a limit of 65,535 entries in a ZIP archive
Indeed, completely forgot this part about ZIP, thank you.
7-zip should work, though, its limitations are much higher.

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Re: jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

#235 Post by Bonaparte »

Some issues with the "Compare last modification date" mode:
- All files are copied over without skipping existing files, just copied on previous run. Switched to filesize comparison, worked as fast as expected. ("Transfer timestamps" is enabled.)
- When an "Exact copy" task encounters a read-only file, it reports it as an "Access denied" error yet still copies it. The task is marked as having errors afterwards, while in fact it was successful. Again, no error with filesize comparison.

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Re: jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

#236 Post by jabuTBackup »

Bonaparte wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:27 am 2019.05.25867 64bit fails to compress (both "Compress" and "Exact compress") a directory with 67000 files (10 Gb) with the error:

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28.01.2020 19:22:46   |   [Error] Insufficient disk space to complete operation.
28.01.2020 19:22:46   |   [Information] Thread 1 cancelled
28.01.2020 19:22:47   |   [Error] Profile "Portable Apps.7z" can not be executed because of an unknown error.
Tested it with an external USB drive and SSD, both working correctly and having more than enough of free space.

With 7-zip, this happens after ~25% of progress. ZIP fails immediately.
Hello everyone, after a longer break I am back. A lot of issues when compressing files have been fixed in the latest update. I think the error above is a output directly from the 7z.dll v19.00 file I am using.
Until today I have no idea why this issue is firing from time to time. It's even firing sometimes when there is plenty of disk and ram space free.
Some issues with the "Compare last modification date" mode:
- All files are copied over without skipping existing files, just copied on previous run. Switched to filesize comparison, worked as fast as expected. ("Transfer timestamps" is enabled.)
Unfortunately I can not reproduce this issue.
My source data is newer than my destination data. I am using the "Compare last modification date" option and "Simple copy" mode.
- When an "Exact copy" task encounters a read-only file, it reports it as an "Access denied" error yet still copies it. The task is marked as having errors afterwards, while in fact it was successful. Again, no error with filesize comparison.
This is strange. Not happening for me in whatever configuration I try. When the option to try to overwrite write protected files is activated the file should be copied - otherwise it shouldn't. Does this still happen in the latest version for you?


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Re: jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

#238 Post by vevy »

I have a suggestion for the jabuTBackup developer. Using a settings file as a portability marker has an unfortunate side effect: you have to be very careful every time you upgrade from the archive so as not to overwrite your own settings file.

A safer approach, used by many portable projects, is to have a separate file as a marker (e.g. an empty file named "portable"). If the app finds this file on startup, it will automatically use the portable settings file(s) like settings.dat (or create them if not present). This way you can remove jaBuT\Settings.dat from the portable archive and I can just extract the new version over the old one without having to worry about losing my settings.

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Re: jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

#239 Post by Midas »

User FireRabbit reported (https://www.portablefreeware.com/index. ... mment31346) unexpected JaBuT behavior that resulted in loss of data... user discretion advised.

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Re: jaBuT - a flexible back-up and sync program

#240 Post by webfork »

Midas wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 7:12 am User FireRabbit reported (https://www.portablefreeware.com/index. ... mment31346) unexpected JaBuT behavior that resulted in loss of data... user discretion advised.
From the post: "I reported this to the developer to learn that jaBuT is made this way by design. No backup program I have ever used [besides this one] is made to stop working when you sleep your computer, and I was not expecting that behavior at all."

I'm really confused why the program quits working after a computer sleep function. For restarting, I agree because I have as few programs running at system start as possible, but sleeping? That's very odd.

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