Fab's AutoBackup 6 Pro - a must have tool for techs

Diggs said:
I've got a bit of a question I haven't seen answered. Do you put down FABs restore right after your OS install or do you wait until all the apps/programs (that are covered by FABs: Firefox, Thunderbird, Chrome, etc.) are installed and then you put down your FABs restore? I've done it both ways but I'm not sure works best.
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For "well behaved" programs it won't matter. They will use any profiles that exist at the time of installation. Eg Chrome, Firefox, Thunderbird etc. On the other hand, I can imagine a less well behaved program might expect a clean slate at the time of installation and/or not give it much though and just erase or overwrite any pre-existing data. I can't give you an example of such a program but the possibility exists. So my general approach is to install all the required software first. make sure nothing else is running when you do the Fabs restore and everything "should be" hunky dory!
 
I did have an issue one time only where I did a restore before installing programs. After installing Thunderbird it failed to pick up the profile so I had to manually replace/overwrite the profile/s to the relevant folder/s.
Not a major problem but decided after that to just install everything first. Had no issues since.:)
 
Barcelona said:
I did have an issue one time only where I did a restore before installing programs. After installing Thunderbird it failed to pick up the profile so I had to manually replace/overwrite the profile/s to the relevant folder/s.
Not a major problem but decided after that to just install everything first. Had no issues since.:)
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Waaay too much work. Try -

thunderbird.exe -P

Just change to the right profile. Works with Firefox too.
 
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Hmmm... Not sure why I have hit or miss results with FABs on these two (Firefox & Thunderbird) but switching to the right profile after FABs is just a couple clicks. Could be I've used FABs before on a few and after on a few which may explain my mixed results.
 
I'm struggling with a FABs backup run. This is just a computer replacement, the old hard disk is good (although windows was corrupted). There is a large (180GB) folder on the desktop with pictures in it. On nearly every file, we get a warning from fabs - "Copied file size does not match with original file" then it lists the source path.

Also "Copied file date does not match with original file" then it lists the source path. It does copy the file, but it's taking 30 or more seconds per file, which average 2 to 4 megabytes in size.

I already have an image of the disk, but since I haven't seen this message before, I thought I would post. Does this sound like plain old file corruption of some sort or something else? I guess I might have expected the error message to point to the destination path if there was a problem with the copy...
 
Even if the hard drive looks fine, the file system must be corrupted, so those files are as well.
 
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A new Fab's AutoBackup update has just been released :

Version : 6.12.0.31407
Date : 12/29/2017

Added :
- Better behavior when dealing with mapped network drives if the current user account is an administrator and use such drives. Full UNC paths are still the best option for network file copies.
Fixed :
- The registry exports were not generated when the running operation system was Windows XP. In Example, it was not possible to backup then restore Outlook Express settings.
- The first "Next" Button could be enabled even if there was no valid backup path set up after selecting another user name as data source
 
A new Fab's AutoBackup update has just been released :

Version : 6.12.0.31411
Date : 12/29/2017

Fixed :
- The first "Next" Button could remain disabled when another drive was set as source and the backup folder was a network UNC path.

Grab it from your orders history's details or using the updater tool (click the "Fab's AutoBackup 6.X is available" link within the program and get the updated files).
 
Has autobackup always done wireless keys on unbootable systems? I just realized it did, but thought at one time it did not.

People who wine about the price, Autobackup can restore contacts and calendar from the newer versions of outlook even on dead systems running imap, this is amazing
 
pcpete said:
Has autobackup always done wireless keys on unbootable systems? I just realized it did, but thought at one time it did not.
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You are right. It was not possible until Nirsoft Wireless Key View 2.0 supported it.

pcpete said:
People who wine about the price, Autobackup can restore contacts and calendar from the newer versions of outlook even on dead systems running imap, this is amazing
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Who is complaining about price? ;)
 
Hi folks,

A new Fab's AutoBackup update has just been released :

Version : 6.13.0.31425
Date : 01/30/2018

Added :
- Option to show or hide installed programs details in the exported HTML file.
- Message prompt if the target drive/network path becomes unavailable while copying to be able to stop the copy job.

Fixed :
- Fonts handling has been improved by updating the built in common fonts exclusions list.

Grab it from your orders history's details on the shop's website or using the bundled updater tool (click the "Fab's AutoBackup 6.X is available" link within the program and get the updated files).
 
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