32 weeks agoS3 Backup beta 16

S3 Backup beta 16 rev.1353

It’s time for beta 16. There are quite a few more changes that will be available shortly, but beta 16 is no small improvement. Here’s a list of changes that are available right now:

  • Port all code to an entirely new S3 abstraction layer. Among other things this adds support for EU and US-West buckets and much better connection pooling (better performance).
  • Add choice of bucket location when creating one via Bucket manager.
  • Better support for proxies in areas other than S3 connectivity.
  • Better application state architecture. Fixes a problem with changed settings applying only partially until the app is restarted.
  • Better support for logging program output in case of possible early crash. (Might come in handy if any such issue will arise in the future)
  • Faster SSL connections.
  • Work around another case of corrupted last-modified dates in filesystem.
  • Fix a small issue with Unicode in filesystem.
  • Fix “time too skewed” reporting.
  • Fix “permission denied” errors in backup set selection tree.
  • On Windows 2000 make installer put msvcrt DLLs in a location that OS can handle.
  • Update dependencies.
  • New beta expiry date is Febrary 15, 2010. It is safe to say at this point that 1.0 will be released much earlier than that.

We push out this release because it has changed quite a bit of internally, but we are aware of a couple imperfections:

  • The upload progress code temporarily works on a file level only, that is, you will not see the progress change while the file blocks are being uploaded.
  • Connection pooling is partially disabled.

Both issues will be corrected very soon.

This is a transitional release leading up to 1.0 release. While the app is still in beta you can order S3 Backup at significant discount.