Hestia

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Hestia v1.3 (0.3 Mb)

Hestia is a simple little filecopy/backup utility designed to let you use a USB flash drive to easily transport files back and forth between PCs. I wrote Hestia to make it easier for me to move my source code between two PCs without making mistakes.

You can add as many Backup definitions as you require by selecting the Add option from the Backups menu. Each Backup definition consists of a Local Path (the location on your local hard drive), a Remote Path (the location on your USB flash drive), a list of file extensions to Exclude, can be flagged as Recursive if desired (whether or not sub-folders should be included), and can be flagged to Zip Files if required. In addition, each Backup definition is tied to a specific Computer name, allowing you to have different Backup sets for each computer.

When you run the backup, it asks which direction you want to copy the files in (Local to Remote, or Remote to Local) and you can also choose to include all backups (the default) or just selected ones. It then shows you progress of how the backup is proceeding and how many files have been copied. Only Backup definitions for the current computer are run.

Files are copied depending on whether or not the Zip Files option was selected for that Backup definition. If Zip Files is off then files are only copied if they have changed (based on the file modified timestamp). If Zip Files is on then all files in the Local path are included in the zip. However, files are always ignored if their extension is in the Backup definition's Exclusion list.

Requirements

PC with Windows 98, Me, 2000 or XP

And enough memory to run Windows efficiently.

Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1

The .Net Framework 1.1 is required to run this program.

Version History

v1.3, 20 May 2005

Added ability to pick which backups to perform. Defaults to all backups unless changed.
Lists backups in alphabetical order. On the main screen this can be changed by clicking on the column headers.

v1.2, 7 April 2005

Fixed a bug which caused files to be truncated when unzipped. This was particularly annoying as I'd already fixed the problem, but it somehow crept back in ... grrrrrr!
Added ability to ignore certain file extensions. Can be defined for each Backup in the Exclusions text box.

v1.1, 1 April 2005

Added support for zip files. If the Zip Files option is ticked on the backup definition's Edit Backup form then the files are zipped onto the USB flash drive when doing a Local to Remote backup and unzipped again when doing a Remote to Local backup.

v1.0, 25 March 2005

Initial release.