Distribution Summary
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grbakp52.zip    GRBackPro: professional backup for Windows 2000/NT/9x v5.2
Size( compressed/Not compressed): 566K/1345K
Date: 03/03/2000
Categories: Win2000, WinNT, Win98, Win95, backup utility, file utility,
system utility
Replace file: grbakp51.zip.
Special HW Requirements: 8MB ram.

Review
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GRBackPro is a data backup program for Windows 2000/NT/98/95 designed to easily solve your backup problems at a low price. You can define multiple backup sessions each having different options. Each session can contains many Jobs. Any Job can backup a whole disk, a single folder or few files. An integrated restore facility allows you to quickly maintain two or more PC aligned. GRBackPro has an integrated scheduler to make your backup automatically start without your intervention. You can install it as a Windows 2000/NT or Windows 98/95 service to have your backups start even if no users are logged in. GRBackPro support network, floppy, Hard drives, CD-RW and all removable hard drives (NO Tapes). GRBackPro is full featured with many professional options. GRBackPro comes with a setup program for an easy installation. GRBackPro is year 2000 compliant and has been selected as the Microsoft and WUGNET shareware pick of the week for Windows 98/95 and Windows NT: 
http://www.wugnet.com/shareware/98/week110/
http://www.wugnet.com/shareware/98/nt_week98/
Best rated with five stars by ZDNet.

Detailed Description
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GRBackPro is a Windows 2000/NT/98/95 professional backup program that
help you maintain your vital computer data. It can recreate your source
folder tree into the destination drive (or a single compressed
archive) and for every folder it can copy your files or create a pkzip
compatible compressed archive with long file name support and password
protection.
You can run a full, incremental or differential backup of your files. 
You can synchronize your backup files/directories with your sources. The 
integrated scheduler allows you to run the backup at predefined moments 
without your intervention. Your backup is fully configurable via the
user interface or with simple text files placed in your source
directories.
The program comes with a setup program that allows you to install,
evaluate and uninstall the package leaving your system perfectly clean.
Follows the major GRBackPro features:

* Year 2000 compliant.
* Support for network, CD-R, CD-RW, fixed and removable drives (floppy, 
  Iomega ZIP/JAZ, LS-120, SyQuest and other similar). Tapes are not
  supported.
* Support network UNC names.
* Can store backup files/archives on multiple removable media.
* Can run as Win 2000/NT or Win 98/95 service process.
* Fully customizable: include, exclude files; exclude, skip directories.
* Backup a single file or folder or even a complete disk drive.
* Integrated restore facility.
* Integrated scheduler.
* Create PKZIP 2.0 compatible archives with long file names.
* Support PKZIP standard password protection scheme.
* Backup modes are: Full, Incremental and Differential.
* Allows you to copy files instead of compress them.
* Recreate exactly your source directory structure so that you can
  easily navigate into the backup archives and restore single files.
  Optionally can backup to a single archive with stored path names.
* Synchronize the backup archives with the source files/directories.
* Run in the background and it is actionable from the tray icon bar.
* Can start the backup at Windows shutdown.
* All backup activities are notified into a detailed log file.
* A report dialog allows you to view and extract selected activities.
* Print facility.


What's New on version 5.2
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- Added: Single zip file FULL path name capability. Now it is possible
         select if you want to store full path names or relative path
         names inside the zip archive.
- Fixed: Occasionally the program goes out of the Desktop and is no 
         more visible.
- Fixed: Tab order for the buttons: Close, Backup and Restore.
- Fixed: On the Job and Progress list header, double clicking the
         right-hand border of the first column to fit the text, it 
         didn't fit well.
- Fixed: When restoring files without compression the program does not
         execute the file/folder synchronization even if enabled.
- Fixed: With UNC names the destination folder name was wrong.
- Added: In the Add/Edit Job and any other path selection dialog,
         pressing the F5 key the folder tree will be updated.
- Fixed: During backup synchronization, if a file was not included 
         but already present on the backup destination folder it was 
         not deleted from the destination folder. 
- Added: Restore verify when compressor is disabled.
- Fixed: Restore synchronization if compression is OFF.
- Added: Impersonate Logged on user under NT. A new button "Advanced
         Options" has been added in the "Options" dialog. Pressing this
         button let the advanced user to define a user name, domain and
         password that the program will use in order to access the backup
         destination path names.
- Changed: Completely rewritten the .grb program options file handling.
         This new implementation is quicker and does no more have size
         limitations.
- Fixed: Disk full condition check while compression is on.
- Added: To the log file the indication of the Job under execution.
- Moved: The global option "Backup registry" has been moved from the
         Options dialog to the Backup dialog and now it works on a
         session basis, i.e. each session can backup the registry.
- Fixed: Program main window position bug when the program start hidden.
- Fixed: In the Job list, if the "Inc/Exc" column is empty the program
         does no more put the word "Yes" in the "Include" column.
- Changed: Printer rendering for both the Job dialog list and the
         Progress dialog list.
- Fixed: Delete a session. The dialog had the OK and Cancel button 
	 instead of the more appropriate Yes and No buttons.
- Fixed: The ALT-F4 key combination do no more quit the application while
         a backup is running.
- Fixed: When the user change the program size/position and then run the
         backup or the restore before to quit then the program will revert
         back to previous size and position.
- Fixed: Selecting a single destination zip archive and the Full backup 
         option when the program ask to delete all files to make room all
         previous backed up Jobs files are deleted so that at end only the
         last Job remain.
- Added: command line options: [/PQ] to enable the zip password protection
         with a dialog box to query the password when the backup start and
         [/P pwd] to enable the zip password protection and define a password.
- Fixed: Restore sometimes try to create the root folder with an error.


Install
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Unzip the distribution archive in a temporary directory and run the
setup.exe program.
If you want to install a language translation, unzip the translation
package before to run the setup program so that it will take care of the
rest for you.
The setup will copy all the needed files where you want and will
register the program on your system. It will allows you to add a desktop
icon, and to list the program into the "Start Menu" or into the "Start
Menu \ Programs" menu. 
It also registers itself into the Control Panel to allow a quick and
FULL Remove.

Remove
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From the "Control Panel" - "Add/Remove Programs" you can quickly remove
the program (completely) from your system how the Windows standard
requires.

License
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Shareware is NOT Freeware ! This is NOT FREE software. 
This evaluation license allows you to use this software, for evaluation 
purposes only, without any charge for a period of 30 days. If you use
this software after the 30 days evaluation period a registration is
required (see the help file for details on how to).
The shareware concept allows you to register the program ONLY after you
have fully tested it on your system.
Please support the shareware concept, we must live selling our software.

Registration
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This software product is licensed at ONLY 59 US$ 
(site licenses at 2000 US$ and world-wide licenses at 3000 US$).
Accepted Credit cards are:
VISA, MasterCard, EuroCard, American Express, Optima, 
Discovery, Dinners Club, JCB Card and Carte Blanche.
You can also register this product directly on the WEB (with a secured transfer protocol): 
http://order.kagi.com/?LU&S
or by phone: 
+1 (510) 658-5244 
or by FAX: 
+1 (510) 652-6589. 

For those interested in, the Kagi FEIN number is 943-281-839.
Please run the register.exe application, fill out the form in any part
and then follows the program instructions for delivery.
From inside the register.exe application you can also print and Invoice.


Disclaimer of Warranty
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This software and the accompanying files are provided "as are" and
without warranties as to performance of merchantability or any other
warranties whether expressed or implied. Because of the various hardware
and software environments into which this software may be put, no
warranty of fitness for a particular purpose is offered. Please use the
Shareware concept and try this software before to buy it.
Any liability of the seller will be limited exclusively to product price
refund.  This software is produced by a member of the Association of
Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that The
Shareware Principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a
shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member
directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you
resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide
technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP
Ombudsman at 157-F Love Ave. Greenwood, IN 46142 USA, FAX 317-888-2195
or send e-mail to omb@asp-shareware.org.

Distribution
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Freely distributable as soon as the files inside the compressed archive
aren't modified in any way. Other text file can be added to the archive.
Please contact GRSoftware (see below) for a written permission.

Resellers
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Ask for our reseller conditions: email to grsoftware@grsoftware.net.

Contact Information
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Ing. Roberto Grassi
GRSoftware
P.O.BOX 48, 10096 Leumann (Torino) ITALY, EUROPE.
Internet E-Mail: grsoftware@grsoftware.net, support@grsoftware.net
Internet Web site: http://www.grsoftware.net

Internet Download URLs
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http://www.grsoftware.net/grbakp52.zip

Program Icon
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Program Screen Shot
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