#BVCKUP 2 REVIEW SOFTWARE#

You are hereby granted a non-exclusive perpetual license to use an accompanying beta version of the software for its primary purpose, free of charge. Additionally, you agree not to recover from the company any damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect or incidental damages. You agree to not hold the company, its employees and owners responsible for any damages that may result from using the software. You acknowledge and agree to bear the inherent risk associated with using the data processing software, the risk that may result in a complete or partial data loss and/or data corruption.

The software is provided 'as is' with no explicit or implied warranties in respect of its properties, including, but not limited to, correctness and/or fitness for purpose. Elsewhere in the thread someone can discuss that.Ī beta version of Bvckup 2 software (the software) Have a look, give it a try and let me know what you think. Bvckup 2 is essentially of show case of that :) I also happen to get a strong kick out of messing with pixels and so this puts me in an interesting position when I can comfortably wear several hats at once. Having previously wrote firmware for firewalls and routers, I have a sticky preference for efficient and highly optimized code. Executable file weighing in a shy under 600KB.

#BVCKUP 2 REVIEW WINDOWS#

No dependencies on any 3rd party frameworks or libraries, only native Windows APIs.

Stable, robust and of a production quality.

5 months in private testing with 100 people.

Major performance improvements across the board.

Excellent user interface - not to pat myself on a back, but it is really good.

Then it stayed in private testing with about 100 people for 5 months and eventually got ready for the open beta. It was a complete rewrite and it took about 8 months to get to the first shippable beta. Long story short, last October I finally bit the bullet, sat down and started working on the Version 2 nearly full-time. So I posted it on DC ( here), Jesse reblogged it, Stephen reviewed it and I got a lot of useful feedback to mull over. Then a year after I looked at some stats and there's nearly 1000 people of the mailing list and I was all o_O, hmm, interesting. I put it out on the Internets just for fun and almost forgot about it as it was after all just a pet project.

What made it unique is its use of delta copying (whereby it would only copy modified parts of every file after the initial copy) and its real-time (continuous) backup mode.

Here's a couple of screenshots just to spruce up the thread, but go and see the website, there's plenty more.Īs you may or may not know, original Bvckup was a simple directory cloning tool that I wrote for my own use back in 2009. I'd like to announce that my long-running backup project is finally feature-complete and available for public testing!Ĭheck it out here - or read on for the summary and what's new in the v2.

Bvckup 2 review