118 weeks agoS3 Backup, Beta 4 Released

If you have no idea what S3 Backup is, come this way.

It's September 30th and current beta of S3 Backup is going to expire tonight, that means it's time for beta 4. This beta will not expire until November 15th, but I'm sure I'll release the next preview much sooner than that.

Beta 4 had a lot of internal changes, like new S3 communication backend with lxml parsing and whatnot but I think you don't care about that. What you care about is:

• Now S3 Backup has encryption and compression built in. Please note that currently it doesn't save these preferences between sessions. Another caveat is that sizes shown in the file listing are sizes after compression and thus differ from the actual size of the uncompressed file.
• You can have more that 1000 items in a directory and they will be shown correctly
• Instant feedback form doesn't restrict input to one line anymore.
• A small bug with connection timeouts was fixed
• Amazon was removed from the product name to avoid trademark issues. This required changes in the folder and shortcut names so if you have beta 3 installed, uninstall it first.
  If you don't want to loose your auth data and jobs settings, before uninstalling copy access_keys.s3 and jobs.ini from your old installation onto your desktop and after installing beta 4 into the new installation.

I really had to release the beta today, so some of the half-baked features had to be left out. That includes a better backup job management (renaming, deleting, syncronizing down, per-job control of encryption and compression settings) and a few UI changes.

There were surprisingly few bugs in the last release confirming that S3 Backup has a really solid codebase. Coupled with storage backend from Amazon, that means it has to be considered as a worthy rival to any of the existing online backup solutions.

Questions?