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It’s been a couple of weeks since I first launched Backup Smart and the comments back from users has been great.
So great in fact, that I’ve implemented their suggestions and made the software even better.
With more to come in the next release as well that I couldn’t fit into this release.
There is a new update to the software with these changes …
- Site5 control panels are now supported for backups
- Enhanced the SMTP settings
- Several bugs were fixed, including a big one for MAC users
Simply start Backup Smart and under the Help menu, click the Check For Updates menu item.
Or go to the Backup Smart download page and click on the installation badge.
2 important changes to this release other than the new Site5 backup ability.
1) MAC OSX Download Bug Fixed
For those users on MAC OSX there was a bug in where the downloaded files where placed and named. How it escaped testing is beyond me, since it was working at one point.
Anyway if you are using Backup Smart on a MAC, please go to the location where you specified Backup Smart to download the backups to and you will need to manually clean up the files that were incorrectly named. You’ll notice them straight away if you haven’t already, since they have the directory name and the file name all joined together.
2) Scheduled SMTP Settings Changes
In order to provide a more robust emailing feature to send you emails when your scheduled backups are complete with the backup log transactions, the SMTP settings on the settings option in the menus has been enhanced.
Everyone that had entered their SMTP settings will now need to go back to the settings screen and enter in some of the other SMTP fields, like sender name and email address and SMTP port.
Some users were not able to receive emails and most likely it was due to not providing all the SMTP information that servers need.
The help video regarding this feature will be updated shortly to reflect the changes.
Work on the next update release has already started…
- More control panels supported, let me know if you want your hosting providers control panel examined to see if it’s able to be supported.
- Failure proofed large backup file downloads. I’m talking accounts that are over 5GB in total size. You can attempt to download a large backup, you may get lucky, but if your internet connection hiccups then your download will stop.
Talk Soon
Aaron
Do you backup your website(s)? Ever?
I know I didn’t which is the main reason I developed this software. You see I have a lot of websites and look after even more for other people.
Backing up your websites has always had 2 draw backs.
1) You have to remember to do it.
2) You have to have a lot of time to do it since it’s a very manual process.
My new software solves both of those draw backs for those of you lucky enough to have your web hosting on a cPanel web server.
Let me first tell you how to backup your website using cPanel.
a) Go to your http://website.com:2082 and enter in your credentials.
b) Go to the Backup icon (will look different depending on your theme)
c) Click on the link to download the home directory backup (this will take all your files)
d) Click on the links to download your databases
e) Click on the links to download your email filters or email aliases
Now you can do all that or you can set it up in Backup Smart and it will do it all for you on a schedule that you set. Couldn’t be simpler.
Plus it runs on Windows, MAC OSX and even Linux by running under Adobe AIR (which is a new cross platform application environment)
Have a look at this promo video I made for the software.
If you think it’s something that you could use, I have a 7 day free trial for it, and if you read this post prior to 02Feb09 then you can get an early bird special offer of just $7 which is a saving of $30 off the $37 price tag that I’ll be selling this for.
Head over to the website here and get your cPanel Website Backup Software
Aaron
