Can't connect so backup fails

[Phil]

Hi

I have had great success with liux areca that I have installed the win version to backup some windows files.

However I keep geting this error:

08-02-11 09:44 - 6 - Checking new version of Areca ...
08-02-11 09:44 - 6 - Opening url : http://areca.sourceforge.net/version.php?randomArg=-5615515331785125676&currentVersion=5.5.7
08-02-11 09:45 - 1 - com.myJava.util.version.VersionDataAdapterException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at com.myJava.util.version.OnlineVersionDataAdapter.readVersionData(OnlineVersionDataAdapter.java:101)
at com.application.areca.version.VersionChecker.checkForNewVersion(VersionChecker.java:91)
at com.application.areca.launcher.gui.Application$8.run(Application.java:552)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URL.openStream(Unknown Source)
at com.myJava.util.version.OnlineVersionDataAdapter.readVersionData(OnlineVersionDataAdapter.java:59)
... 3 more

I need to connect through a proxy server but see no way of configuring this? It's set in both my browser and java settings. Is there anyway to skip the version check? Trying to untick the box in the preferences part of the GUI version doesn't let me save my changes.

Help!!

Thanks

Phil

[aventin]

Hi

Just select a language in the preferences dialog (it is a mandatory field) -> You'll be able to save your preferences