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Doc Backup README.txt

Hi there to all interested developers!

First a few words about doc backup, and why I am writing it. 

Do you recognize following situation:
- Your PC environment has become more stable than it used to be in the past, so less need to backup the "system"
- Your documents are more critical than ever
- Your data should be backed up each day (by preference)
- Your data should be backed up in at least 2 (physical) places
- Your data should be backed up somewhere on the Internet so you are absolutely sure no fire or burglary can make you loose all your data
- There is no free SW that helps you out...

Actually, I was using cobian backup before. Works fine for most occasions, but the logging is not so good and the FTP feature does not work when using incremental backups.
So I decided to make Doc Backup which is ideal to cover above needs. 

In a few words, doc backup is:
- SIMPLE to use (only 1 option window with just a few simple TABS)
- Install & forget principle  (well, not 100% yet...)
- Makes backup on local (network)disk AND on FTP server (and now also on Amazon S3 storage as FTP didn't turn out to be that reliable)
- Has support for FULL, INCREMENTAL and DIFFERENTIAL backup types. INCREMENTAL is the preferred one.
- Is free of charge
- Is open source GPL3
- Can be built using the free IDE:  VS2010 Express C# 
- Is fun! 

Join me to develop some more nice features of this useful program!

In fact I did quite some programming in other languages, but this is the first one I made in C#.
So I need your help to make it really good!

Davy

How to build it
- Install Visual Studio 2010 Express C#
- Download the latest sources using SVN or via the download link
- Open the project in Visual Studio
- Build / debug (F5)

Dependencies: 
- nini.dll for managing the application options
- AWSSDK.dll for Amazon S3 access

How to use
- Click OPTIONS
- Select source directory
- Select destination directory
- Select backup type (INCREMENTAL is most space efficient)
- click OK
- click START
(Use the more advanced options (FTP and S3 for example) as you like)
(press F8 for advanced logging options)

Need your help
I need help to implement some more features. The requested features are in the SourceForge "Doc Backup" ticket system.

Release Note
The release note info can be found in the file "ReleaseNote.txt"

Davy