Online Backup by 77Backup

For our dear readers, here is a capture of the design of our main module. more to come in the next days…

All the 77backup team wishes you a happy new year, full of good surprises for you and the one you love.

We are existed, since the year will start with the release of our new software and site, so stay tuned for some surprises.

After months of hard work from our software engineers, we are almost ready to relaese the new 77backup. It’s faster, safer and we hope that you’ll love it.

As of today, we have just released version 1.1.5, that is limited to a reduced list of beta tester. The first official version should be available in the very beginning of 2010…

Basically, the software will be shipped in two part :
1- an interface to create your ‘jobs’ (folders and files you want to backup), and execute the restore of your data.
2- a service that runs in backgound and that will record all modifications to any files within your jobs every four hours.

The interface is simple yet efficient

The jobs are easily created and maintained

As far as security is concerned, when installing the software, you choose an encryption password that will never leave your computer… therefore your data is stored in a private way (no one will read or even use your data for marketing purpose)

Data can be restored through a few clicks… on your computer but also on a new computer.

The 77Backup team wishes you a happy new year, full of good things for you and your love ones.
We hope that your data will be safe throughout the entrire year 2009.

Files are great things. You can put just about anything in them. You can also make copies of them (which is basically what a backup is, after all).

The problem arises when you want to make a backup of a file, and another application is using it. Sometimes, it’s nearly impossible to get the other application to let you have a look at its file, even for a second or two. Notably Outlook. Outlook REALLY doesn’t like to have anyone else even look at its data files – meaning that it won’t let you open them if it’s open, and if you are looking at them when it opens, it’ll break.

The solution? In Windows XP, Vista and Windows Server 2003, it’s called the Volume Shadow Copy Service, which will allow you to make a backup of a file (or the system), even when files are open.

We’ve just implemented it in Altexa Backup, and hopefully, it should mean a lot more happy customers!

10 points for anyone who can tell me what sound a duck makes.

Yes, that’s right, something remarkably like ‘UAC’. Which happend to be the acronym for Vista’s new security framework – User Access Control. That’s the framework which gives you those popup windows every time you try to do something.

One of the more annoying (to us) parts of UAC is the way it handles programs which try to start when you log on to Windows. If the program hasn’t SPECIFICALLY been written for Vista (i.e. inside the program’s innards, there isn’t a magical line of code saying ‘hey, I know what UAC is and I play nice’), then the program won’t be allowed to run.

This was the case with the backup agent in Altexa Backup. Until build 808, that is smiley

Oh, and we now digitally sign our executable files – it’s another step forward in our security process…you can now be sure as soon as you download our programs that they are from us. The installer is signed by ‘Altexa LLC’, and each individual program is, too.

Welcome to the Altexa Blog.

We’ll post stuff here when something interesting happens to either the software, the website, or something else related to the Altexa Backup product. We hope this blog will give you some insight into the workings of the Altexa system!

Cheers

Mark Walker