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PunkBackup v1.7.3
What's new since v1.6.0
New: optional second copy (mirror) backup. Each profile can now keep a second, independent copy of its whole backup on a different folder/USB — manual, one-way, verified by hash after every copy (catches a bad USB write instead of silently leaving a corrupted file). See the Usage Manual's "Second copy (optional)" section. If your main drive is ever lost, this second copy works as a real failover — just point the profile's main destination at it, no re-upload needed.
Fixed: a full destination drive could silently drop uploads. The server now always tells you clearly when a file couldn't be saved (disk full or otherwise), instead of failing silently.
Fixed: the second-copy sync could make an active backup look "stuck." Syncing the second copy while a real backup from the iPhone was still running could, in a specific timing case, make the app show that backup as finished early — the files kept uploading correctly the whole time, but the display was misleading. Fixed.
Fixed: log noise for paused/unconfigured profiles, and the startup log now always ends on "A darle" — any leftover notice from a previous session appears before it, never after.
New: the app now shows its own version — in the window title and in "⚙ Settings", useful when comparing against a manual or reporting an issue.
Documented: exactly how Avast interacts with PunkBackup. Avast scans the app for its first ~10 seconds after opening (it looks fine at first), then silently closes and reopens it. A backup started from the iPhone in that exact window gets cut off (nothing lost, just needs restarting) — see the Installation Manual for the full explanation and the one-time fix (an Avast exception) that makes it stop happening.
Docs: the .shortcut file is now a real downloadable release asset (below) with a direct link in the iPhone Setup Manual, the "Allow Untrusted Shortcuts" iOS step is documented, and the manual-build walkthrough moved to a separate alternate guide so the main iPhone Setup Manual stays short. Real backup-speed numbers (WiFi upload and local USB-to-USB mirror sync) are now published in the Troubleshooting Manual, measured from this project's own real usage, not estimated.
See v1.1.0 through v1.6.0 release notes for everything before this.