Detritus, companion project

jaynicks — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:16:14 -0000

Detritus, a companion project that describes and helps you eliminate useless files on Windows, is now on sourceforge.

Backups are quicker if you can first get rid of a few hundred meg of tmps, baks, caches, . . .

Release 1.01

jaynicks — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:32:13 -0000

Release 1.01 ha one addition and bug fixes.

The bug fixes are documentation except
when a full restore was requested and the backup area had no differential files, diff files, the diff files were asked for. Repaired 2/11/07

The addition is a optional "force" setting for allowing the mounts of dirty NTFS disks. CDriveBack does not automatically mount questionable disks.

"Force" is required as clean NTFS disks are frequently marked dirty as a convenience for launching the Microsoft chkdsk utility at boot time.

Release 1.0 available

jaynicks — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:08:45 -0000

No complaints for the release candidate so Release 1.0 is not available.

Final testing for 1.0

jaynicks — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:53:52 -0000

The final pre-release candidate is available.

There will only be bug fixes, fro two weeks, until 1.0 is released (hoepfully, grin.

Jay Nickson

Left in a test module

jaynicks — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:59:39 -0000

Apologies to all who downloaded from Satrurday o tuesday at Noon, A test module was left in and Partial restores abended.

The good nes is that the replacement is 47 Meg smaller. It went on a diet.

CDriveBack Release Candidate 1 Available

jaynicks — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:09:17 -0000

CDriveBack, the appliance live-cd for backing up XP systems (and many others) Release Candidate 1 is available.

Internally it is a Gentoo Distro with DAR and NTFS support.

To date CDriveBack has been tested on XP's and Win 98's with no problems for three weeks.

It successfully restored one XP Home after the OS refused to boot and files were trashed, apparently
the FAT info was trashed. The tester was most grateful. CDriveBack works.

We need a SATA and RAID testers.