TamsPalm readers were among the first to hear about the new features in the upcoming versions of Resco backup in July – in case you missed the article, here it comes again:
http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2007/07/13/news-from-the-resco-backup-front/
Anyways, Jan Slodicka has provided us with an exclusive beta of Resco Backup Pro for Palm OS – it adds the following features to Resco Backup v2.01(emphasis by me):
FTP
—In short, the users can exchange the backup sets with selected FTP server.
This can be done either manually or as part of the scheduled backup.Free DriveHQ.com accounts
Every user can make use of a free FTP account at the FTP hosting service www.DriveHQ.com.
This account includes 1GB storage and 1 GB download/month and can be used with Resco Explorer or desktop ftp clients.Secure FTP login
SSL login is supported. (Means your user name and login are transferred via safe lines.)
RscBackup always attempts secure login and if it is not supported, the standard plaintext login follows.
You can disallow fallback plaintext login in the FTP setup dialog.
Condition for using secure login:
- Your FTP server must have this ability. (Ask if it supports AUTH command with the parameter ‘TLS’.)
- Your handheld must support SSL transfer. (In other words https links in Blazer.)FTP features:
- Minimized data traffic: FTP upload transfers just changed files
- Robustness: RscBackup reliably recognizes transfer failures
- The user is notified about the scheduler FTP failureFTP sets dialog:
Displays both local and remote backup sets as indicated by the icons.
I.e. each row represents a backup set that is either local, remote or both – i.e. local set copied to FTP.
The dialog allows for upload/download, but also for:
- Diff (fast check against a backup set description file)
- Update (Copies only the modified files)AES encryption
————–RscBackup Pro supports (besides of the zip encryption) also strong 128-bit AES encryption.
Compatibility:
AES implementation is WinZip compatible. This means the zip archives creating a backup set
can be opened in WinZip. (After you copy them to a PC, of course.)Settings:
To switch on the encryption – setup the password in the Project setup.
Further encryption-related settings are accessible from Project setup Advanced settings:
- ‘Strong encryption (AES)’ specifies encryption type: zip- or AES-encryption.
- ‘Encrypt known files’: Public data (e.g. applications downloadable >from the web) need not
be encrypted. It is faster so and even safer.
- Full compatibility requires switching on Crc computation.AES processing brings speed penalty:
Typical backup will slow down by 50% (if known files are not encrypted) and impact on the
Verify procedure is even larger.Other changes
————-(These changes will be ported also to the standard Resco Backup.)
Backup sets dialog:
- Modified design (less used features are under the combo box Actions)
- Possibility to assign icons and notes
- First line of the notes – when nonempty – is displayed in place of the date
- Backup set error state (e.g. interrupted due to card problem or crash) is marked by color
- A backup set can be pinned. This means the backup set is taken out >from the scheduler
update mechanism (scheduler performs cyclic update of a given number of backup sets), i.e.
such backup set can be updated only manually.Other news
- DateBK plugin
- Scheduler: Disallow if battery is weak (set the threshold in the scheduler options)
- Partial restore starts with all files unselected
- Restore preserves original DB dates
The beta can be downloaded here.
I did a swift check on my Treo 680 and feel that the program works very well – if you find out about any issues, either shoot me a line at Tamog@gmx.at or just post it here…the Resco boys read TamsPalm frequently!
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