Ukopp

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Ukopp
Software Details:
Version: 6.6 updated
Upload Date: 22 Jun 18
Developer: kornelix
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 130

Rating: 3.2/5 (Total Votes: 6)

Ukopp is an open source and freely distributed graphical software written especially for GNU/Linux platforms and designed from the ground up to be used for copying and backing-up files to an external hard disk drive or a USB stick. The program is quite smart, engineered to synchronize/copy only the files that have been changed since the last backup, which means that it is very fast.

Features at a glance

Key features include an easy-to-use and straightforward graphical user interface that helps you to edit the backup specifications, the ability to navigate the local filesystem and add or remove files and folders at any level, and support for saving your custom config in a job file for repeated use.

Additionally, the application is capable of backing-up modified and new files or folders automatically, overwrite or retain previous versions of stored files/folders, selectively restore files, as well as permissions and ownership. It is fully compatible with Microsoft Window file systems.

Getting started with Ukopp

There are three methods to install this software on your GNU/Linux systems. The most simple one is to search for the ‘ukopp’ package on the default software repositories of your distribution, but be aware that the latest version is always available for download on Softoware or the official website.

Ubuntu and Debian users can download native installers for their operating systems from our website, which will help them to install the latest Ukopp release, simply by double-clicking the DEB file.

Lastly, those of you who want to optimize the software for your Linux kernel-based operating system and hardware architecture (32-bit or 64-bit), can compile the source tarball. To do that, download the tar.gz file from the dedicated download section above, save it on a location of your choice, extract it, open a terminal emulator, use the ‘cd’ command to navigate to the location of the extracted files and execute the “make” command, followed by the “make install” command as root or with sudo, both without quotes.

What is new in this release:

  • Bugfix: the reported expired file versions exceeded files actually purged in the next backup job. The reported number was corrected.
  • The internal logic for calculating archive file statuses and counts was simplified and the archive status reports were improved.
  • A utility was added to renumber archive file versions to start at (1). This can be used to stop unlimited growth of version numbers for files that change frequently and are backed-up frequently.

What is new in version :

  • Increase internal buffer size to handle very long file names.
  • Add xdg-utils to package dependencies.
  • Correct error in user guide.

What is new in version 5.8:

  • Replaced GTK deprecated functions.
  • Differences Summary report now Includes a count of expired old file versions that will be purged from the backup location.

What is new in version 5.7:

  • Added: create backup directory automatically if not already there.

What is new in version 5.6:

  • Bugfix: warn invalid backup directory before starting a backup job.
  • A few small usability and cosmetic improvements were added.

What is new in version 5.4:

  • Backup file version retention logic was changed to be a better match to most common needs: a backup file version is purged if older than the number of versions to retain OR older than the retention period. Existing backup job files must be revised accordingly if they specify version retention.
  • Terminology was revised to improve clarity: backup "target" was replaced with "archive" in the GUI, job files and user guide. "Archive" means the storage device
  • + mount point (optional), and the directory where files are copied.
  • It was made easier to select single files/versions to restore.
  • Increased maximum backup file count to 1 million files.
  • Remove disk format function which does not really belong in Ukopp.
  • Bugfix: "archive space" report sometimes listed irrelevant directories.

What is new in version 5.3:

  • Copying file owner and permissions to the backup location is now optional.
  • This is useful if the backup location is a Microsoft file system, which does not support Linux owner and permissions. Note that owner and permissions data
  • is still copied to the backup location in an extra data file, and if files are later restored, owner and permissions are also restored. This works even if the
  • backup location is a Microsoft file system.
  • Bugfix: The following job logic was made to work properly:
  • include /home/mike/* # include everything
  • exclude /home/mike/docs/* # exclude docs/*
  • include /home/mike/docs/* (30,3) # re-include with version retention
  • The last record adds a version retention rule only for .../docs/*
  • (retain all versions 30 days, retain last 3 versions indefinitely).

What is new in version 5.2:

  • Bugfix: If a directory is included in the backup file list and has no wildcard,
  • the application may crash. e.g. include /home/user/.thunderbird instead of ... /.thunderbird/*

What is new in version 5.1:

  • The file system cache is flushed and purged between the Backup and Verify functions. The Verify function therefore reads directly from disk and not from the file system cache (containing data previously written). This replaces the open(...O_DIRECT) capability recently removed from the Linux file system.

What is new in version 5.0:

  • Ukopp verify function made useless:
  • The O_DIRECT flag was removed from the file open() call because Linux kernel 3.16 fails with EINVAL (invalid argument). Earlier kernels accepted this. The effect is that the Verify function has been made useless unless the storage device is unmounted and remounted between backup and verify. Without O_DIRECT, the source files cached in memory are being verified instead of the destination files written to storage.

What is new in version 3.7.1:

  • Implement show/hide hidden files in restore files function, file chooser dialog.

What is new in version 3.6:

  • Support for a non-GUI mode was added for command-line deferred execution (cron).
  • $ ukopp -nogui -run /.../my-ukopp.job

What is new in version 3.5.3:

  • Bugfix: after copying NTFS files, a verify with full compare failed because direct I/O (O_DIRECT) is not allowed for NTFS. This was unnecessary anyway and so it was removed.

What is new in version 3.5.2:

  • Minor enhancements: Do remount of backup device only if it was mounted by ukopp, else use sync to insure all cached data has been physically written. Use direct I/O for verify function, since sync leaves files in memory cache which defeats media verification.

What is new in version 3.5:

  • The GUI was revised to make the specification of retention specs for old file versions on the backup media easier and more conventional.
  • Other changes to the GUI were done to make it easier to use (revised job file format will require re-editing).
  • Detection of conflicts bewteen user intent and actual backup device and directory status was made more robust.
  • Auto unmount and removal of mount point at end of job is done only if ukopp did the auto mount initially.
  • Bugfix: include/exclude filespec containing blanks was not working.

What is new in version 3.4:

  • The Linux program "udevinfo" has recently become "udevadm info". Ukopp was modified to use whichever variant works.

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