I'd like to get some feedback on some backup software I've developed. It provides a simple method for users to select files in Windows Explorer to be backed up. So it's a selective backup utility, as opposed to the full backup that's normally used. I'm calling it "TagNBag."
The current version lives on my web site at: http://www.arzoosoftware.com/backupext.html. It's a windows shell extension that provides two basic features. One is that it allows a user to right click on a file and select it to be part of a backup set. A little overlay icon shows up to indicate that the file is marked or "tagged". Once a set of files is tagged, they can be copied up to the backup location (or "bagged") all at once, whenever the user wants. This brings up the second major feature: a virtual directory for organizing how the tagged files will eventually look on the backup target, i.e. the directory structure. Please check the web site for other features.
Note that this initial version does the actual back up by simply writing to a file system location. However, there would be options to handle other transport mechanisms through pluggable assemblies that would offer different methods: web API's, ftp, even writing to CD's.
For now, TagNBag offers an easy way to select a set of files that can be regularly moved across a network file system to another location. If anyone would like to check it out and provide some feedback, I'd appreciate it.
Greg Arzoomanian
http://www.arzoosoftware.com
