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Re: Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows

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Post by latitude »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #29
latitude wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reminds me how every time someone posts a salad recipe to /r/cooking the whole discussion inevitably converges to the topic of a salad without a mayo not being a real salad ... just as it is not a salad with the mayo :) Every backup has a set of risks that it mitigates. If the goal is to mitigate human errors, then, yes, versioning/archiving is a must. However if someone just needs to have a daily snapshot of th…

> "Backup" is not an exact term, but rather a range of data protection techniques. We're trying to narrow the range of things that people consider a "backup" so that they don't get wildly disappointed in the future. This isn't a matter of taste. > All that said, the archiving is coming up. Fantastic!

> We're trying to narrow the range of things that people consider a "backup" so that they don't get wildly disappointed in the future

Aye, I totally hear you.

Re: Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows

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Post by skrebbel »

abcd_f wrote: post #15
sciurus wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, I was thinking of rolling hourly/daily/weekly backups and I didn't understand how I would set that up with your program. Would I have to sync the same source to multiple destinations on different schedules? That seems inefficient compared to e.g. http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Please don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to denigrate the software you've written! I was just surprised to see…

> I didn't understand how I would set that up with your program > I was just surprised to see it marketed as a backup tool instead of a file synchronization tool https://www.hackerschool.com/manual , Ctrl-F, "feign surprise"

That's not at all the kind of surprise that article is about. If you're going to go all Baloney Detection Kit on us, at least do it right.

Re: Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows

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Post by latitude »

Freaky wrote: post #21
sciurus wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, filesystems with snapshotting and deduplication capabilities let you use much simpler tools to implement backups. I don't think they're common in consumer-level storage devices, though.

NTFS supports snapshots, which it calls Volume Shadow Copies.

From what I've read persistent volume snapshots has been removed from W8 and replaced with File History. You can still use VSS to make temporary snapshots though (and that's what allows backup apps to process locked files).

Re: Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows

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Post by eps »

Ecio78 wrote: post #33
czam wrote: post #9

How does it compare to http://freefilesync.sourceforge.net/ ? Apart from the delta copying the feature list sounds similar. I find the FreeFileSync UI quite usable.

What about Cobian Backup, Duplicity, Duplicati, rsync.net ?

C'mon, let's just list them all!

Re: Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows

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Post by latitude »

thisjepisje wrote: post #37

What (if any) is the difference between the free download and the 20 dollar version?

If you are referring to the "last beta", then it's just what it says on the tin - it's the last of beta releases, meaning that it's unsupported and it's the end of the line, feature-frozen since mid May, no updates. The exact list of differences is over at [1]. The reason the last beta exists is that the beta period was quite long and there were people who got used to using the app for free, so that version is for them (though all beta users got 50% the production version).

[1] http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=36388.msg...

Re: Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows

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Post by thisjepisje »

latitude wrote: post #38
thisjepisje wrote: post #37

What (if any) is the difference between the free download and the 20 dollar version?

If you are referring to the "last beta", then it's just what it says on the tin - it's the last of beta releases, meaning that it's unsupported and it's the end of the line, feature-frozen since mid May, no updates. The exact list of differences is over at [1]. The reason the last beta exists is that the beta period was quite long and there were people who got used to using the app for free, so that version is for th…

I'm referring to what you get when you click the download button at the top of the page. So that's the last beta?

Re: Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows

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Post by latitude »

thisjepisje wrote: post #39
latitude wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are referring to the "last beta", then it's just what it says on the tin - it's the last of beta releases, meaning that it's unsupported and it's the end of the line, feature-frozen since mid May, no updates. The exact list of differences is over at [1]. The reason the last beta exists is that the beta period was quite long and there were people who got used to using the app for free, so that version is for th…

I'm referring to what you get when you click the download button at the top of the page. So that's the last beta?

No, that's the actual app. As it says right under the button -

    Two-week unrestricted trial
  Anytime upgrade to paid status
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