This is a simple backup tool with a few useful features.
It simply copies files and links from one directory to another.
Of cource it only copies files that are different in some
way, like size or date etc. So the backup is incremental.

Features
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- Very easy to use GUI.
- Backup from one directory to another directory.
- Very fast and copies only what needs to be copied.
- Copies files and directories as they are, does not store in some custom backup
format.
- Can be used from the boot shell without any libraries installed.
- Copy softlinks as softlinks by recreating the softlinks on the target.
- Copy softlinks by following the links and copy the files and directories.
- Ignore all links completly, including hardlinks.
- Specify sub-directories that should be excluded from the backup.
- Specify large individual files (over 512kB) that should be excluded from the
backup.
- Specify a maximum file size of files to be copied.
- Clean the backup from old, previously backed up files that have been removed
from the source.
- Can be paused or aborted.
- Can be executed from scripts including all features normally controlled
through the GUI.
- Can backup based only on the archive protection bit.

 *** This program has been successfully tested on AmigaOS 4.1


News
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* NEW * Added an average copying speed in kB or MB/s that will show after
        it is finished. Mostly interesting when you make the first complete
        backup since all time is considered, not just during actual copying.

1.70 (091103)
** Added file size limitation so that you can select that files over
   a given size should not be copied. The new option is in the Backup
   menu.

** Added two options to prevent the setting of Amiga protection bits
   and Amiga file comments. Useful if you are backing up to a file
   system that cannot save these attributes, such as an USB memory
   or over Samba network.

** Restructured the menu a bit to be overviewable.

** Enabled multi-select to the skip file requester used when adding
   large files to be skipped.

** Fixed an exit failure if the CLI arguments were incorrect. Now
   BackUp should exit cleanly even if there was an error during
   startup, such as if incorrect CLI arguments were given.

** Fixed a bug with the file size filter in the ASL requester
   being left enabled some times when picking a log file name
   for example.

v1.63
* Replaced the ever buggy AFC tasker class which was used for the backup
  sub process for custom code. People noticing an exit problem on OS4.1
  beta versions should be fine now.

* When creating a local relative softlink an additional slash was added
  to the path.

v1.62
* Fix for reading softlinks on MorphOS which has a slightly different
  implementation of dos/ReadLink(). This problem could show itself
  when cleaning as BackUp thought everything was softlinks and cleaned
  away your entired backup everytime a clean was performed.

* Cleaning softlinks didn't work as they were incorrectly interpreted
  as directories.

v1.61
* BackUp always set the archive bit on directories it had searched
  even if they already had the archive bit set when copying by the
  archive bit.

* If BackUp was interrupted using Ctrl-C when in shellmode and
  logging to a logfile was used, the file was not closed.

* If you did not have any config saved from the GUI, BackUp would not
  read the skipfile if you used BackUp from CLI with the SKIPFILE
  parameter.

* Changed the file date qualification to compare for whole seconds
  only, not ticks. This may help when backing up to USB sticks which
  don't use an Amiga file system and may return uneven ticks.

* Changed the log output in verbose/non verbose log mode. Now all files
  that were copied or deleted will always be displayed. No distinction
  between small and large files. In normal mode they will be displayed
  with complete path.
  In verbose mode, all directories BackUp enters will be logged and
  the files will not have a path but instead be displayed using an
  ASCII graphical tree. In verbose mode all changes to protection bits,
  file comments and file dates will also be logged.

* Changes in protection bits no longer qualifies for a backup of a file.
  Instead only the bits will be updated unless size or date also differs.

* BackUp didn't update file comments, date or protection bits on
  directories that was only searched, not created.

* A side effect of running BackUp from shell was that the task
  priority of the shell was raised by 1 for every run. This made
  BackUp behave strangely after a few runs when the priority got
  high enough.

* Better logging of various errors.

* Cleared up the paths switch for the skiplist to be more logical
  and informative.

v1.60
* Now BackUp recreates real softlinks on the target instead of always
  copying the files and directories the files points to. Copy the link
  targets as real files and dirs is still available as an option though
  to make it possible to create link-less backups.

* Added an option to create emtpy directories for those directories
  that were put in the skiplist.

* BackUp is now able to replace an old file or softlink with a new
  directory when backing up a second time. In the same sense a
  file can be replaced by a softlink, and a softlink can be replaced
  by a file or directory.
  Even an (empty) directory can be replaced with a file or softlink
  without producing an error message.
  Replacing a non-empty directory with a file is not possible without
  performing a Clean operation first though.

* Clean is able to delete anything that is not exactly the same as
  on the source. For example if a backup contains a file, but
  the source now contains a link with the same name instead,
  the file will be deleted during a clean.

* Does not set the archive bit on directories that were copied unless
  "Backup by the archive bit" is selected.

* When picking large files and directories for the skiplist the file
  requester will keep opening automatically for selection of more
  files and directories to add to the skiplist until you are done
  and click Cancel in the file requester.

* Tried to reduce the graphics updates a bit by removing the
  printing of directory names when exiting directories.

v1.50
* Now BackUp can follow and backup links, or ignore links completely.
  Note: Links will be copied as real files and directories!

* Added the argument SHELLMODE/S which will prevent the window
  from opening until the clean/backup has finished. If AUTOQUIT/S
  is used together with SHELLMODE the window will never open.

* Added FORCEDELETE/S and SKIPDELETE/S to prevent the requester
  from appearing during the clean process if any delete protected
  files are encountered.

v1.45
* Corrected the bug which sometimes caused a Grim Reaper on
  startup when used on OS4.

- For a complete history, see the Guide.


Disclaimer
~~~~~~~~~~
I WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS OF DATA
THAT THIS PROGRAM MIGHT CASUE TO YOU SYSTEM OR DATA!

--
Other programs by Deniil 715! can be found on OnyxSoft homepage at:

 http://www.onyxsoft.se/

Feel free to mail me if you found bugs or have suggestions:

  daniel / onyxsoft se

NOTE: Please, NEVER publish this e-mail on a web page or similar
      unless spam-encrypted like above!

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