Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 18:29:03 -0500 From: "Mark Dodel" Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: LDBkup -- Large Drive Disk Backup From: "Walter F. Metcalf" ANNOUNCING LDBkup - Large Drive Backup ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FINALLY, there is a simple backup program that SMASHES the 2GB barrier! LDBkup will back up an 80 GB volume as easily as a 1 G partition. Although this version of LDBkup is a first-release product, with updates planned at regular intervals, it already has a surprising number of powerful features: 1) LDBkup is a disk backup, (as opposed to a tape backup) program. This provides better speed, more flexibility, and lower operational cost. 2) LDBkup supports backing up to a local volume as well as a remote (networked) volume on a peer-to-peer LAN. 3) LDBkup permits specifying the archive volume as a UNC specification (e.g. \\Remote\DNAME ) as well as a drive letter. This provides additional flexibility in setting up the backup. 4) LDBkup automatically handles backing up volumes spanned over multiple partitions or even drives! 5) LDBkup supports FULL and DIFFERENTIAL backups, automatically handling archive bits in the traditional fashion. 6) LDBkup supports backing as many as 24 logical drives, specified by drive letters, in a single session! 7) LDBkup utilizes the ultra-high compression scheme developed by Eugene Roshal for the RAR (copyright) archiver. 8) LDbkup utilizes RAR and its unique drive-spanning feature to do the actual backup. However LDBkup has been considerably enhanced in order to make it easier to use, to provide differential backup, archive bit handling, and several other features. 9) LDBkup creates both log and error files on disk. Errors are also displayed on the screen for the user's convenience. 10) Best of all, LDBkup is free! However an email would be appreciated if you find the program useful. REQUIREMENTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ eComStation 1.1 (Warp 4, with fixpaks 15 and 16, or eCS 1.0x should work as well, but I have not tested LDBkup on these platforms). Note that if you want to use LVM volumes on Warp 4 to get partition spanning, you will need to install the LVM package. You should install the latest LVM, JFS, TCP/IP, and peer fixpaks. Warp 3 and lower systems will probably cause LDBkup grief because of their limited network support, and so are not supported. A fast processor, preferably > 1GHz, to handle the high compression rate. LDBkup will run, however, with any AMD Athlon/Duron-compatible processor; it will just take longer. :-) A drive supporting long filenames (HPFS or JFS) to hold the archives. As mentioned previously this is a first release version, and I have already planned some enhancements. However if this program becomes sufficiently popular, I may add still more enhancements according to your suggestions. So try it out; let me know if you like it, and how I can make it more useful to you. Note that in order to run LDBkup you need to download and install RAR. If you find yourself using RAR regularly, you should register it. :-) To download RAR, go to: http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarx330.exe To download LDBkup, go to: http://www.warpdoctor.org/walter.metcalf/ldbkup.zip I plan to upload LDBkup to Hobbes in the next few days. Walter F. Metcalf walter.os2DESPAM at rogers.com ------------------------------------- Walter F. Metcalf V.O.I.C.E. President http://www.os2voice.org WarpDoctor Coordinator http://www.warpdoctor.org walter.os2DESPAM at rogers.com ------------------------------------- -- Warpstock 2003 - San Francisco, California, October 18-19 See the video and presentations: http://www.warpstock.org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it.] -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news end If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice.org. Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice.org