Subscribe to RSS Feed13 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- Corrupted / out of date filedb does not require reuploads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
28 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
32 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.
41 weeks agoAmazon S3 SLA
Today Amazon announced introduction of a Service Level Agreement for S3. It promises to give 10% service credits to customers who had error rate higher than 0.1% that month, or 25% credit if error rate was 1% or higher. This is a big improvement compared to no SLA at all, but it has some fine print -- to be eligible you'll need to provide logs that document the amount of errors you've got. Obviously, everyone would prefer Amazon to just calculate this themselves but we have what we have. I'll investigate more and will update this entry once I know better what exactly this means to our users.
45 weeks agoS3 Webmaster 1.0 RC3/RC4
This is a small update. Some improvements to bucket manager, a few small bugfixes and that's it. So far the only thing left to add is license control and we're ready to go. Please let me know if you find any bugs in this release. Download from product page