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by Hughg
Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:00 am
Forum: AISBackup Windows 7, 8 and 10 Forum
Topic: Registration key not accepted in Vista
Replies: 11
Views: 73822

Registration key not accepted in Vista

I've just installed AISBackup on a Vista replacement for an older machine, and moved the AISBackup.aik key file to the program directory. But AISBackup doesn't seem to recognize it -- the program starts up in trial mode. Is there anything funny about Vista interfering with product registration?
by Hughg
Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:04 am
Forum: AISBackup Pre-Release and Beta Versions.
Topic: Backup freezing
Replies: 2
Views: 20089

Well, the event logs didn't show anything. I established that it was freezing at the point at which it starts preparing to deal with open files, but that was that. However, this time rebooting seems to have cured it. It hasn't always in the past. I guess I'll just keep an eye on it and try to spot a...
by Hughg
Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:25 pm
Forum: AISBackup Pre-Release and Beta Versions.
Topic: Backup freezing
Replies: 2
Views: 20089

Backup freezing

Barry -- I don't know whether this is a beta problem or whether it's been around for a while. Sometimes my full system backups are freezing. I haven't seen a pattern in where it's happening, and it doesn't happen every time. Just now it did it during the exclusively-opened file backing up process, b...
by Hughg
Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:19 pm
Forum: AISBackup Feature Request
Topic: --Proposal for Alternate Session Purge Method--
Replies: 6
Views: 13943

Thanks for drawing my attention to this thread, Barry. I agree entirely with Kirby on both counts -- I think your pruning idea is superb, and I, too, can't praise AISBackup highly enough. It's already saved my life several times. I love the formal elegance of Kirby's idea, but I think your suggestio...
by Hughg
Tue Sep 14, 2004 1:45 pm
Forum: AISBackup Support
Topic: Question about Sessions
Replies: 2
Views: 6490

Thanks, Barry. Yes, maybe an illustrative script would be a good idea. It's a tricky idea to get across, isn't it?

Hugh
by Hughg
Tue Sep 14, 2004 2:43 am
Forum: AISBackup Support
Topic: Question about Sessions
Replies: 2
Views: 6490

Question about Sessions

Could I check that I understand how sessions work? I have a database which I backup regularly, which consists of a main file and a bunch of small ones in a subdirectory. All of the files get changed regularly, and the small ones get added to or deleted as well. I use the "session" method o...
by Hughg
Sat Sep 11, 2004 3:44 pm
Forum: AISBackup Support
Topic: Pruning old backups
Replies: 3
Views: 7874

Sorry about the delay in replying: I hadn't realized this was going to be such a difficult issue, but I can see why, now you're explained it. First principle I'd suggest is as follows: I'd avoid getting into any solutions that are backup media-specific. One of the great strengths of AISBackup, as fa...
by Hughg
Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:06 pm
Forum: AISBackup Support
Topic: Pruning old backups
Replies: 3
Views: 7874

Pruning old backups

Is there a neater way of doing the following than the one I've thought of? I want to be able to combine daily backups with being able to go back several months. The only way I can think of doing this without having a massive set of backup files (i.e. daily backups going back a year or so) is to have...
by Hughg
Sat Jul 31, 2004 9:27 pm
Forum: AISBackup Support
Topic: Max zip file size for backup to ftp site
Replies: 2
Views: 6814

:oops: My mistake. It was a big zip file that AISBackup was dealing with, but it was still under the "huge" files size.
by Hughg
Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:05 pm
Forum: AISBackup Support
Topic: Max zip file size for backup to ftp site
Replies: 2
Views: 6814

Max zip file size for backup to ftp site

I'm backing up to an ftp site, and although I've set the maximum file size before compression to 25MB (I'd actually like it smaller -- can it be set lower?) the biggest zip file in the backup is around 76 MB. I'm using build 210 on a Win XP platform -- am I doing something wrong?

Hugh
by Hughg
Tue Apr 20, 2004 11:34 am
Forum: AISBackup Support
Topic: Changing notification
Replies: 2
Views: 6446

Thanks, Barry -- I knew there had to be a way :)

Hugh
by Hughg
Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:17 pm
Forum: AISBackup Support
Topic: Changing notification
Replies: 2
Views: 6446

Changing notification

Barry -- is there a way of changing the notification mode (e.g. from displaying a message reporting that all went well with a scheduled backup, to displaying a message if it didn't) for existing backup jobs?

Hugh
by Hughg
Fri Apr 09, 2004 4:58 pm
Forum: AISBackup Support
Topic: Trouble setting up scheduled job
Replies: 2
Views: 7022

Thanks, Barry -- hiding the cue card fixed it.

Cheers
Hugh
by Hughg
Thu Apr 08, 2004 5:01 am
Forum: AISBackup Support
Topic: "Failed to erase CD" message
Replies: 2
Views: 6694

I'll check for the form-behind-a-form possibility: I know what you mean, and that could well have been part of the problem. Actually, the CD writer didn't change; it was the motherboard that was upgraded. And I'm usually careful to pick a slow speed (4X) on disks that can record faster (10x). So I d...
by Hughg
Wed Apr 07, 2004 11:25 pm
Forum: AISBackup Support
Topic: Trouble setting up scheduled job
Replies: 2
Views: 7022

Trouble setting up scheduled job

Hi Barry Strange behaviour: when I start scheduling a job, after the first screen on which I pick the days for the job to run, I get a dialog saying "I was expecting you to: Enter a time." I click on "OK" and find myself looking at the screen that lets me schedule a time. I do so...