AnyBackup Upcoming Release

For anyone out there that uses AnyBackup, if anyone out there does beside myself and family -- there have been over a thousand downloads but that says nothing about actual usage, I've not abandoned the project. I just haven't had time recently to do much. I spent a lot of time this weekend, however, revamping it. Some of the biggest changes are under the hood, I've totally changed how data is stored which necessitated moving and rewriting a great deal of code.

Major Changes:

• Moved to SQLlite as a backend
• Generally more performant than the proprietary mishmash of objects currently in play
• Doesn't rely on pickle
• More flexible
• Data can be viewed / accessed outside of AnyBackup
• Probably not super useful for most people but if you had a reason to want to get at this data, it's now very easy
• It's also very useful for troubleshooting
• Click & Drag functionality from AnyBackup
• You can now click and drag files displayed in AnyBackup and drop them in folders, drives, your desktop, etc
• The above is only true if the files reside on a drive that is connected, of course
• Right click or double click on files to show in explorer
• If you double click on file x.txt AnyBackup will launch an explorer instance with x.txt highlighted
• Modified Time is now displayed in file tables in addition to size and name
• Search now uses sql syntax instead of regex (necessitated by the switch to SQLlite)
• Sets now supported
• This was a feature that really didn't mesh well with the legacy code base so I hadn't gotten much further despite taking a few different approaches
• Each set is completely independent of any other
• You can have multiple identical sets if desired
• i.e. if you want to do rolling backups with different sets of backup drives against the same content drive(s)
• There's a new toolbar which lets you switch between sets
• A few optimizations here or there to avoid slowing down on SQLlite queries
• Thread crash detection
• Previously thread handling really sucked (it's still pretty messy) but it was so bad a thread could crash and the gui wouldn't recognize it thus leaving the gui continuously displaying the scrolling progress dialog as if the process were still running
• When a thread crashes now this is recognized and the error is popped up in a dialog box

Look for this revamped version to be up for download in the next week or so.