Neowin Forums > BackupFox 0.6

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 8 2005, 14:24

It backs up the whole profile. That means extensions, extension settings, bookmarks, homepage, cache, cookies, passwords, general settings... everything...

temporary

Mar 10 2005, 00:25

QUOTE(nw_raptor @ Mar 7 2005, 20:03)

Ouch! Sorry for that. Good find though. There was a bug when target profile matched the backup... It should be okay now (fixed 0.7 was uploaded - link is the same).
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Thank you
tested ok :

blade1269

Mar 10 2005, 00:47

hey
spot on mate
blade

ideefix

Mar 12 2005, 22:23

hello,

works fine for me on xp pro sp2 with TB 1.0.2

thanks

ps: for the backup one option will be nice to drop the file when we have the option Browse ...

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 12 2005, 22:33

Mihai: You mean drag'n'drop? (and probably for restore, not backup?)

ideefix

Mar 13 2005, 00:05

yes, it is indeed that ...
sorry ,english is not my primary language.

@+

altezza

Mar 13 2005, 01:11

Gotta try this. It looks like a handy application.

Daylene

Mar 13 2005, 02:49

Gonna try this. Looks really handy, thanks!

L3onheart

Mar 14 2005, 21:53

It doesn't backup/restore de search plugins on firefox

G4M3R

Mar 14 2005, 23:17

Excellent little app, thanks very much

Caledai

Mar 14 2005, 23:35

Ok - Doesn't seem that bad.

Couple of points.

Is it possible to get selective backups like MozBackup did.
Also - how about excluding the cache from the backup - I generally back mine up to an old USB 1.1 64MB memory bar, and a 30MB file is a bit large for this.

Apart from that - not bad at all

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 15 2005, 13:47

^ Selective Backups can cause a lot of trouble. MoxBackup had trouble because of that. I will try to exclude cache though.

IceDogg

Mar 15 2005, 17:08

Why can't you just go into Firefox and clear you cache before you back up? I would agree this could cause problems. I think if you make this feature you might think about making it an option to enable/disable just in case.

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 15 2005, 20:35

Yes, I am currently looking at ways to do this, as an option. I will have to test it to make sure Cache-less backups are OK.

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 19 2005, 21:40

Okay, version 0.72 is up. Exclude Cache is now available (as an option). I had to do a lot of tricks to make this work, so I hope it does

Please try it and tell me if everything is ok.

BackupFox 0.72

CrisCr0ss

Mar 20 2005, 02:12

i Still get them runtime error 50003 or so

MuddyMuDmaN

Mar 20 2005, 03:29

Great program nw_raptor! Works fine for me.

I had three things to back up, Firefox and 2 Thunderbird profiles. I noticed when you click the Previous button to select a second profile to back up, you don't get the 'Next' button back, instead it stays as 'Finish'. Just a minor bug, but I thought I'd let you know about it.

Thanks again for all you efforts!

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 20 2005, 10:42

CrisCr0ss, do you get the same error with the old, 0.6 (still available here)?

MuddyMuDmaN, I'll fix that

CrisCr0ss

Mar 20 2005, 21:01

yup still get the error.. for both the new n the old.. im still wondering why however

CubanPete

Mar 20 2005, 21:28

I've been waiting for something like this for months, THANK YOU sooooo much!!!

Keep up the good work

dnaton

Mar 21 2005, 11:57

QUOTE(nw_raptor @ Feb 28 2005, 22:21)

There has been a lot of discussion about backing up Firefox extensions, preferences, bookmarks etc. A promising tool, MozBackup, was unfortunately discontinued. On top of all that, yesterday, after my main HDD fainted (power cable got disconnected), my firefox profile got corrupt. I had no chance but to write a tool to backup/restore my profile.

Notes
1. This is still BETA; there may be some glitches
2. This saves a complete backup of your profile, not just extensions or bookmarks.
3. It uses 7-zip commandline to create and extract archives.
4. It requires administrative rights (on NT-class Windows)
5. It has not been tested with Windows 9x/Me
6. Version 0.7 supports Firefox and Thunderbird.

Points
1. I've successfully restored my profile after uninstalling firefox (and deleting my profiles) and reinstalling it.
2. I've successfully transfered my profile on my second computer (backup on first pc, and restore on second).

Hi,

I've dowlnload the zip package and try to install. When I lauch Backupfox.exe, I've an error message that say : "Execution error 50003. Unnattended error". And the program abort . What's wrong ?

Thanks,

Damien

gaviaal

Mar 21 2005, 12:08

Great work! I was looking for a tool like this.

Batfink

Mar 21 2005, 12:11

Awsome.. keep up the good work Raptor

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 21 2005, 12:43

Hmmm. It seems many people are having that weird 50003 error. I'll add logging support, maybe we can track it down.

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 21 2005, 13:19

OK, added startup loging when using /log (or -log) commandline argument. This is version 0.73. Some minor fixes here and there.

Download: BackupFox 0.73

thunderrooster

Mar 23 2005, 05:44

Great work like it alot. Suggestion though, might want to exclude extensions. When updating or installing a new version sometimes you have to delete the extension folder cuase firefox and tbird wont start. Look in the mozilla forums you will see what I mean it comes up a good bit. Have you told anyone from the mozilla forums yet about cuase I am sure they would like to know there is a another program to backup firefox and thunderbird. Most replies for backup programs is there is only one and its discontinued.

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 23 2005, 07:15

Thunderrooster: I am not aware of any such problem. I remember MozBackup used to have such issues, but to my experience BackupFox has a success rate of 100%. Anyway, I have not posted about BackupFox anywhere but here.

ricobird

Mar 25 2005, 07:12

Jolly good show, Mate!

Cryton

Mar 25 2005, 14:28

Great extension! Thanks for your efforts.

Sid The Kid

Mar 25 2005, 21:21

I've just joined this forum. The software seems great but unable to make it work on my pc. I use xp home & tries 0.73 & 0.72. I download it, extract it to a new folder, works fine but created a backup file of 22 bytes !!! Created a new profile, then it created a backup file on 3xx KBs. I tried a backup on thunderbird too but same result.
And please what is that admin thing people are talking about?
Thanks for helping
Sid

Mr Farrar

Mar 25 2005, 21:26

nice lil extension man thanks

Mr Farrar

Mar 25 2005, 21:27

wtf double post

Staind

Mar 26 2005, 01:46

So handy a tool!
I'll appreciate more if it has a linux version

and I never thought that the backup file can be that huge.

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 26 2005, 05:51

Staind, backup files is usually small when cache is excluded. Oh, and I might be opening the source (VB

) soon so it can be ported to other OSes. Anybody willing to do this?

obiwankenobi

Mar 26 2005, 05:59

OMG! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!! you saved my life...errr.....mozilla/firefox! w007!!!

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 26 2005, 06:01

QUOTE(Sid The Kid @ Mar 25 2005, 23:21)

I've just joined this forum. The software seems great but unable to make it work on my pc. I use xp home & tries 0.73 & 0.72. I download it, extract it to a new folder, works fine but created a backup file of 22 bytes !!! Created a new profile, then it created a backup file on 3xx KBs. I tried a backup on thunderbird too but same result.
And please what is that admin thing people are talking about?
Thanks for helping
Sid
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Okay, please check this: C:\Documents ad Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini

(replace USERNAME with your own) Does this file exists? If yes, do you mind posting its contents?

matt74441

Mar 26 2005, 06:14

Nifty program. Good job

Sid The Kid

Mar 26 2005, 08:53

QUOTE(nw_raptor @ Mar 26 2005, 09:01)

Okay, please check this: C:\Documents ad Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini

(replace USERNAME with your own) Does this file exists? If yes, do you mind posting its contents?
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Yes the file exist, and for profile0, the Name is the same as my profile folder name.
Maybe I should have told you earlier that my profile folder is not at it's default location: I created a folder in E: and i've always been using it as my profile folder (and I encountered no problem with it)
And no problem I can send you it's content or the file (but where) if you want
Thank you

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 26 2005, 09:16

Ah... thats what I thought. BackupFox needs profiles to be in the default location. I'll add support for absolute profile paths in a future version.

gaviaal

Mar 26 2005, 12:01

I've tried to use the program to transfer all my settings from my laptop to my home pc. I've never been able to recreate the tab-settings from my laptop on another installation of Firefox, so copying it would be very nice.
Unfortunatly, it isn't working, but maybe I'm doing something wrong:
- I've installed Firefox 1.0.2. on my home pc, same version as on my laptop, everything in default locations
- Created a backup of my laptop with backupfox 073
- Loaded the backup onto my home pc
- and then nothing, just a blank screen with, unclickable, TNR letters. I've attached a screenshot.

Raptor: what can I do?

Thnx.

Sid The Kid

Mar 26 2005, 12:56

QUOTE(nw_raptor @ Mar 26 2005, 12:16)

Ah... thats what I thought. BackupFox needs profiles to be in the default location. I'll add support for absolute profile paths in a future version.
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Ok thanks.
I tried the software with default location profile folder, worked fine and it has that thing I was looking for and which was missing in Mozbackup: backup &restore of chrome.rdf
Also, I noticed that the restored profile will only work correctly if the bckup file is restored in the same profile folder it was backuped from. Please confirm me it is normal (is that due to the entries in chrome.rdf?)
I think all these problems would not exist anymore with FF 1.1 as (I heard it somewhere) profiles will work with any profile folder even if it is moved etc. Can someone confirm?
Thanks

Daeron Tinúviel

Mar 26 2005, 13:02

i have my profile at the default location and it only creates a file of 1k

Profile folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\Daeron Tinúviel\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox

The profiles.ini exists:

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=C:\Documents and Settings\Daeron Tinúviel\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
Default=1

any ideas?

with thunderbird happens the same thing

chrispen

Mar 26 2005, 13:14

good job dude , will use it asap

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 26 2005, 13:46

Sid the Kid: Yes, due to enties in some files within the profile, it has to retain directory structure. I cannot confirm the Firefox 1.1 question though (If its true, then it's good news for everyone).

Daeron Tinúviel: Your profile uses absolute path, not relative. BackupFox only works with default profile path (relative to Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox and equal to Profiles\profilename).

Daeron Tinúviel

Mar 26 2005, 14:16

ehhh could you explain a little more...i though i have a default profile location

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 26 2005, 14:25

As you can see, you don't:

IsRelative=0
Path=C:\Documents and Settings\Daeron Tinúviel\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox

#1: Your path is not relative
#2: Your path is not equal to Profiles\profilename

For example, mine:

CODE

IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/iwm374pl.default

/Raptor

Apollo

Mar 26 2005, 15:16

awesome man, this one saves me a lot of trouble!

Daeron Tinúviel

Mar 26 2005, 16:00

thanks raptor

gaviaal

Mar 26 2005, 16:02

Raptor: am i doing something wrong with backupfox? (see above)? Thanks for the help!

A. Kaladis / nw_raptor

Mar 26 2005, 17:11

Are the users named the same (not the profiles, the Windows user accounts)? I had no trouble restoring my profile on a different pc (with different username) but you never know!