v0.3.2-alpha

v0.3.2 - Update fix

• Fixed automatic updates failing when release EXEs use versioned filenames.
• Supports fileback-vVERSION.exe and filebackup-vVERSION.exe.
• Preserves checksum verification and existing settings, profiles, backups, and logs.

If this is your first install just get the fileback-v0.3.2-alpha.exe, filebackup.exe is for previous versions where the update only read filebackup.exe and not fileback-vX.X.X.exe

v0.3.1-alpha

v0.3.1 - Performance improvements

• Reduced idle and minimized memory usage.
• Reduced timer overhead and repeated filesystem checks.
• Improved memory handling during large backups.
• Cleaned up unused and duplicate code.
• Same interface and features.

Local benchmarks showed 15% less resident RAM while idle and 85% less when minimized compared with v0.3.0. Idle CPU remained near zero. Results vary by system.

UI checks and eight Rust tests passed.

v0.3.0-alpha

v0.3.0-alpha

Alpha release: Bugs expected. Automatic backups remain unavailable.

• New Windows EXE and graphical interface.
• Backup profiles, concurrent backups, and live progress.
• Folder/ZIP backups with rename, delete, and overwrite confirmation.
• Configurable compression, tray behavior, and status dismissal.
• Compressed logs showing actions and exact setting changes.
• GitHub update checking and automatic installation for full releases.

v0.2.1-alpha

• new backup screen progress bar, shortened paths, file counts and processed sizes
• removed completion timer from config (replaced with pause)

v0.2.0-alpha

FileBackup v0.2.0-alpha

Changes since v0.1.0-alpha:

• Added ZIP backups and compression of existing backups, with archive verification. Compression defaults to level 6 and is configurable.
• Added explicit create/add workflows, backup rename/delete, and a folder browser that reveals files in File Explorer.
• Added branch-style menus with arrow-key navigation, shortened paths, and improved text alignment.
• Added progress bars for copying and compression, completion/error colors, and a configurable completion delay.
• Added timestamped per-run .log.gz logs. Successful compression removes the plain log; failures preserve it.
• Added config.json and an Edit config menu for storage paths, compression, exclusions, overwrites, retries, timestamps, and completion delay.
• Changed default storage from Backups to .backups, with logs in .logs.
• Added path/name validation, duplicate-name protection, and noninteractive copying.
• The .bat now creates missing manager.ps1 and config.json files on first run. Existing files are preserved.

Requirements: Windows PowerShell 5.1+, Robocopy, and 7-Zip for ZIPs and compressed logs.

Scheduled backups are not included in this release.

v0.1.0-alpha

Features - v0.1.0-alpha

This project is in alpha and is for testing and feedback it is not complete and may or may not change further. So expect bugs.

• Create backups for folders and files
• Drag and drop files
• Allows to add files to already created backup folders
• Create new folders for individual files

Known Bugs

• If file you want to backup is currently being used in another application the batch file will run into a error
• This project is in alpha there is probably many bugs I'm unaware about please report them in Issues

Usage

1. Download the .bat from the latest release
2. Put it in a separate folder
   Example: downloads\file-backup\filebackup-v0.1.0-alpha.bat (this is where your backups will be stored as well)
3. Run the .bat file and it will automatically create a backup folder alongside it to store your backups
4. Upload the files you with to backup!