OrionSoftLab presents Active Backup Expert 1.70 backup utility
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Contents:
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1) Description.
2) System requirements.
3) Installation.
4) Release notes.
5) International support.
6) Contact us.


1) Description.
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Active Backup Expert software serves two main goals:
- make reserve copies (backups) of disk files;
- help to synchronize files on two (or more) PCs.

We recommend this software, if you need:
-to store files in compact format;
-to make backup copies of disk files in order to protect them;
-to take some files with you wherever you go;
-to have a record of state of your work.

Features of Active Backup Expert:
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Active Backup Expert stores backups in standard .ZIP format, so in
addition to ABE you can use any ZIP compression tool to operate
ABE-made backup files.

Active Backup Expert permits selecting backup set files by exact
file names, as well as by wildcard masks. Therefore new files, matching one of
selected masks, will be included to or excluded from new backups
automatically.

Within Active Backup Expert you can store as many backups as you
wish. You can browse files stored in any backup, view their
contents, extract or delete backed up files from a backup and
even open them with default system editor.

Using command line arguments you can order ABE to create a
backup without any interaction with you. It lets to use ABE in
any automation utility to make scheduled backups. Please, use our 
Active Task Manager automation utility, if you don't have
one.

ABE supports ActiveX Automation, allowing you to control it within
your own application.

You can export your backups to a remote server and import it back by
using FTP. You can send your backups by e-mail.

We have done (and we will do in next versions) our best to make user
interface the most convenient and intuitive.


2) System requirements.
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-Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP;
-At least 2Mb free HD space;
-Mouse or other Windows pointing device;



3) Installation.
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To install Active Backup Expert simply unzip abe.zip and start
abeXXXsetup.exe.
If you need to upgrade an installed copy of ABE to a newer version
or reinstall the current version of ABE, please, install a new
version to the same folder without uninstalling previous version.



4) Release notes.
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Active Backup Expert is not a free software. You can install and
evaluate it during 30 days without any charge. After expiration
of the evaluation period you should register this software to
continue to use ABE or uninstall it otherwise.
If you have not registered ABE after 30 days, you'll not be
able to create a new backup. However you'll be able to restore,
import or export existing backups.

Current price of ABE is 19.95 US dollars for the Standard Edition, and 45 US 
dollars for the Professional edition. To register online
please visit ABE registration page at

http://www.orionsoftlab.com/abe/sc_reg.htm.

Details of the registration process are described in the
Order.txt file in the distribution package.

We welcome any feedback, from bug reports to spelling
corrections and further upgrade recommendations. We present 
free registration to the most active beta-testers.


5) International support.
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Though this version supports localization to different languages, the translations
are not included into this installation package. If you are interested in other 
languages, please, visit our localization web-page at

http://www.orionsoftlab.com/localize/

or e-mail us at 

localize@orionsoftlab.com


6) Contact us.
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We welcome your product support requests at

support@orionsoftlab.com.

Sales-related questions are welcomed at

sales@orionsoftlab.com

Please send all other messages to

info@orionsoftlab.com

You can find fresh information about Active Backup Expert at

http://www.orionsoftlab.com/abe/

The latest version of Active Backup Expert is always available for
downloading from our web page at

http://www.orionsoftlab.com/abexpert.zip

or

http://orionsw.virtualave.net/abexpert.zip

THANK YOU FOR USING ORIONSOFTLAB SOFTWARE.
