akaladis Veteran Posted March 8, 2005 Author Veteran Share Posted March 8, 2005 It backs up the whole profile. That means extensions, extension settings, bookmarks, homepage, cache, cookies, passwords, general settings... everything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temporary Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 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). 585580606[/snapback] Thank you tested ok : :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade1269 Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 hey spot on mate blade :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scual Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 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 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaladis Veteran Posted March 12, 2005 Author Veteran Share Posted March 12, 2005 Mihai: You mean drag'n'drop? (and probably for restore, not backup?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scual Posted March 13, 2005 Share Posted March 13, 2005 yes, it is indeed that ... sorry ,english is not my primary language. @+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altezza Veteran Posted March 13, 2005 Veteran Share Posted March 13, 2005 Gotta try this. It looks like a handy application. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylene Posted March 13, 2005 Share Posted March 13, 2005 Gonna try this. Looks really handy, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L3onheart Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 It doesn't backup/restore de search plugins on firefox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G4M3R Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 Excellent little app, thanks very much (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledai Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 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 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaladis Veteran Posted March 15, 2005 Author Veteran Share Posted March 15, 2005 ^ Selective Backups can cause a lot of trouble. MoxBackup had trouble because of that. I will try to exclude cache though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceDogg Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaladis Veteran Posted March 15, 2005 Author Veteran Share Posted March 15, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaladis Veteran Posted March 19, 2005 Author Veteran Share Posted March 19, 2005 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 :p Please try it and tell me if everything is ok. BackupFox 0.72 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrisCr0ss Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 i Still get them runtime error 50003 or so :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuddyMuDmaN Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 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! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaladis Veteran Posted March 20, 2005 Author Veteran Share Posted March 20, 2005 CrisCr0ss, do you get the same error with the old, 0.6 (still available here)? MuddyMuDmaN, I'll fix that :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrisCr0ss Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 yup still get the error.. for both the new n the old.. im still wondering why however Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubanPete Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 I've been waiting for something like this for months, THANK YOU sooooo much!!! Keep up the good work :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnaton Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaviaal Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 Great work! I was looking for a tool like this. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batfink Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 (Y) Awsome.. keep up the good work Raptor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaladis Veteran Posted March 21, 2005 Author Veteran Share Posted March 21, 2005 Hmmm. It seems many people are having that weird 50003 error. I'll add logging support, maybe we can track it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaladis Veteran Posted March 21, 2005 Author Veteran Share Posted March 21, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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