Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro - a must have tool for techs

[fabs]

Hi,
Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro V7.0.8.556 has just been released.

Change log:
Fixed:
- Pro only: There was a glitch with additional folders in transfer mode : by default, "additional folders" check box is unchecked and additional folders tree is disabled. Until previous version, additional folders tree remained active, allowing to select folders but they were ignored at copy time since main check box was not ticked.
- Sometimes for an unknown (yet) reason, Internet Explorer start page fails to restore. In this case, the program will get information like "Start Page" kind of registry value and add it to its error report. Also, an error message will be logged at run time.

Grab it from your orders history's details on the shop's website at https://store.fpnet.fr/account.php?language=en or using the bundled updater tool (click the "Download Fab's AutoBackup 7.X" link within the program and get the updated files).

 

[fabs]

Hi,
Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro V7.0.8.557 has just been released.

Change log:
Fixed:
- Typo in IncrediMail target folder at restore. Data went to "C:\Users\User_Name\Appdata\Local\IIM" instead of "C:\Users\User_Name\Appdata\Local\IM".

Grab it from your orders history's details on the shop's website at https://store.fpnet.fr/account.php?language=en or using the bundled updater tool (click the "Download Fab's AutoBackup 7.X" link within the program and get the updated files).

 

[fabs]

Hi,
Fab's AutoBackup 7 Home & Office and Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro V7.0.9.567 have just been released.

Change log:
Change:
- Small name change for Fab's AutoBackup 7 : to avoid confusions, Fab's AutoBackup 7 (not Pro) version is now called Fab's AutoBackup 7 Home & Office.
Fixed:
- All copied files were shown as failed when "Remove source files" option was selected.

Grab it from your orders history's details on the shop's website at https://store.fpnet.fr/account.php?language=en or using the bundled updater tool (click the "Download Fab's AutoBackup 7.X" link within the program and get the updated files).

 

[fabs]

Hi,
Fab's AutoBackup 7 Home & Office and Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro V7.0.9.567 have just been released with a bunch of fixes.

Change log:
Fixed:
- Due to multiple failures when transferring or restoring data without any obvious reason, all changes made since 7.0.8.513 released on January 2nd 2019 have been rolled back then bug fixing has been started over.
- Pro only: There was a glitch with additional folders in transfer mode : by default, "additional folders" check box is unchecked and additional folders tree is disabled. Until previous version, additional folders tree remained active, allowing to select folders but they were ignored at copy time since main check box was not ticked.
- Pro only: When restoring multiple users backup, Outlook PST and OST files could go to another user profile.
- Pro only: When several user accounts were involved in a backup, a restore or a transfer job, user selection menu could disappear while navigating the program's interface, especially tabs.
- Typo in IncrediMail target folder at restore. Data went to "C:\Users\User_Name\Appdata\Local\IIM" instead of "C:\Users\User_Name\Appdata\Local\IM".
- All copied files were shown as failed when "Remove source files" option was selected.
- When restoring public items, log could show that "PUBLIC" stuff are copied to a user's profile. This was just a cosmetic issue as public data is copied to the right location.

Grab it from your orders history's details on the shop's website at https://store.fpnet.fr/account.php?language=en or using the bundled updater tool (click the "Download Fab's AutoBackup 7.X" link within the program and get the updated files).

 

[Larry Sabo]

Anyone else have a problem with the update when running Fabs Autobackup 7 Pro from a flash drive? It has refused to update on two different systems lately, but updates on my main PC without drama. Sorry, I don't have specs for the systems involved but will pay more attention next time. It used to update from the FD until about a week or so ago.

 

[fabs]

Anyone else have a problem with the update when running Fabs Autobackup 7 Pro from a flash drive? It has refused to update on two different systems lately, but updates on my main PC without drama. Sorry, I don't have specs for the systems involved but will pay more attention next time. It used to update from the FD until about a week or so ago.

Just tested now and no problem on my end. Kington USB3 DataTraveler 3 flash Drive

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

Anyone else have a problem with the update when running Fabs Autobackup 7 Pro from a flash drive? It has refused to update on two different systems lately, but updates on my main PC without drama. Sorry, I don't have specs for the systems involved but will pay more attention next time. It used to update from the FD until about a week or so ago.

I had an issue the other day where I couldn't update on someone else's machine, which used to work fine. Something about not being activated, but it worked fine on my main desktop.

 

[Larry Sabo]

I had an issue the other day where I couldn't update on someone else's machine, which used to work fine. Something about not being activated, but it worked fine on my main desktop.

I didn't get any notification about not being activated...it just wouldn't open the updater, and I checked that it wasn't a hidden window. I solved the problem by copying the files from my main PC to the flash drive and it works normally again.

 

[River Valley Computer]

I didn't get any notification about not being activated...it just wouldn't open the updater, and I checked that it wasn't a hidden window. I solved the problem by copying the files from my main PC to the flash drive and it works normally again.

Was it a 'version' issue? We have had that happen before where we used an older version accidentally.

 

[Larry Sabo]

@River Valley Computer, I don't think so. It had been working and updating fine forever, until one day it wouldn't update. All fixed in any case, by copying the files from my PC to the flash drive.

 

[fabs]

Hi,
Fab's AutoBackup 7 Home & Office and Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro V7.0.10.700 have just been released.

Change log:
Added:
- Warnings and dialog about folders redirected to a network share in backup/transfer mode: permissions on network shares could be altered. Users now have the choice between copying files anyway or skip network redirected folders.
Fixed:
- Excluded fonts list has been updated to reduce operating system issues while restoring them.
- To prevent issues, existing fonts file are not overwritten anymore when they already exist on target system, even if the program is set to overwrite every file.
- Any folder containing the word "cache" in its name is now excluded by default from Google Chrome like browsers backup/transfer. The cache folders list was hard coded but it looks like new ones are added to Chrome quite often so, transferring them could take ages.
- The program used to freeze for a moment at the end of a copy job if it had once been set so send logs and SMTP server was unreachable.
- To prevent existing shortcuts on public desktop from being broken (IE MS Office ones, can be others as well), the program will not overwrite them anymore, even if it has been set to overwrite any existing file.
- In backup mode, the program did not get the default Outlook profile's name when dealing with Outlook 2013 and newer. When restoring, it could not set it back as default profile. This fix avoids having to set Outlook profile as default manually.
- Mozilla family software (Firefox, Thunderbird, Waterfox, Seamonkey ...) profiles are now restored to the default folder in order to avoid copying them to a wrong place if original path does not exist on new system.

Grab it from your orders history's details on the shop's website at https://store.fpnet.fr/account.php?language=en or using the bundled updater tool (click the "Download Fab's AutoBackup 7.X" link within the program and get the updated files).

 

[Go-To Gordon]

Forgive me if this is covered somewhere but I didn't find it searching. I ran a backup using fabs 7 the other day on a clients win7 machine. Went to restore to new machine today and noticed there is no "backup config file". I see no way to move forward with the restore using fabs without this file.

 

[fabs]

Forgive me if this is covered somewhere but I didn't find it searching. I ran a backup using fabs 7 the other day on a clients win7 machine. Went to restore to new machine today and noticed there is no "backup config file". I see no way to move forward with the restore using fabs without this file.

This file should be located inside "X:\Path_To_Your_Backup\YYYY-MM-DD\Computer_Name" folder. If it is really not there, you can create one at this exact place (or depending to your backup configuration, in the folder where you find folders like "User_Name_1", "User_Name_X", "PUBLIC".

Here is how the folders structure should look like :

X:\
|__[PATH_TO_YOUR_BACKUP]
   |__[YYYY-MM-DD]
      |__[COMPUTER_NAME]
         |
         |__[USER_NAME_1]
         |  |__[archive]
         | 
         |__[USER_NAME_2]
         |  |__[archive]
         |
         |__[USER_NAME_X]
         |  |__[archive]
         |
         |__[PUBLIC]
         |  |__[archive]
         |
         |__Backup.conf

Here is a Backup.conf file content example :

[USER_NAME_1]
ArchivePath=USER_NAME_1\archive

[USER_NAME_2]
ArchivePath=USER_NAME_2\archive

[USER_NAME_X]
ArchivePath=USER_NAME_X\archive

[PUBLIC]
ArchivePath=PUBLIC\archive

Create this using notepad and save it as "Backup.conf". Beware of file extensions. You'd better make your explorer show known extensions, so, if you make a "Backup.conf.txt" file instead, you could easily rename it.

 

[fabs]

Hi,
Fab's AutoBackup 7 Home & Office and Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro V7.0.11.713 have just been released.

Change log:
Added:
- Support for SafeInCloud Password Manager database.
Fixed:
- Some items were missing from command line builder tool: Word startup folder, Word custom dictionaries and Word auto correct entries.

Grab it from your orders history's details on the shop's website at https://store.fpnet.fr/account.php?language=en or using the bundled updater tool (click the "Download Fab's AutoBackup 7.X" link within the program and get the updated files).

 

[Your PCMD]

Hi,
Fab's AutoBackup 7 Home & Office and Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro V7.0.11.713 have just been released.

Thanks @fabs

 

[timeshifter]

What can I get from this? I think I ran a Fab's backup on a machine that was used by a former employee. The boss wanted all the stuff off of it in case he needed it. Stumbled upon this data on a flash drive.

I think it might give me the autocomplete address entries. If so not sure how to restore it?

Here's a screenshot of the directories and the open .ini file.

 

[brandonkick]

Do you anticipate a new version (autobackup8) on the horizon?

I bought autobackup6 when it was onsale, use it a decent bit... thinking maybe I might like to snag a newer version, but would hate to pay for 7 and then have 8 come out soon after!

 

[Porthos]

but would hate to pay for 7 and then have 8 come out soon after!

updates are included for 1 year (there is an option for a 3 years duration). Time is counted down from purchase's date. Once this delay over, the program will still work normally but if you want to update it or just download it again, you will have to purchase a new license.

 

[fabs]

What can I get from this? I think I ran a Fab's backup on a machine that was used by a former employee. The boss wanted all the stuff off of it in case he needed it. Stumbled upon this data on a flash drive.

I think it might give me the autocomplete address entries. If so not sure how to restore it?

Here's a screenshot of the directories and the open .ini file.

You can't use this ini file directly. It's used by Fab's AutoBackup when it restores Outlook PST/OST files. Subkey values you highlighted are the ones that contain PST/OST files paths in registry.
If you want to use this Outlook data, you need to restore the backup onto a Windows machine.

 

[brandonkick]

updates are included for 1 year (there is an option for a 3 years duration). Time is counted down from purchase's date. Once this delay over, the program will still work normally but if you want to update it or just download it again, you will have to purchase a new license.

Updates are for the version you purchased only? Or if I buy V7 and V8 comes out in four months do I get V8 and eight months of updates for it? Or will both V7 and V8 continue to be "supported" in conjunction for a while?