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Listed below is a brief list of some of the features that TrackBack provides. Please see the sidebar or click on available items for detailed information.

  • Automatic Backup
    • What to backup
      • Choose paths to protect
        • Optionally disable protection from sub-paths individually
        • Network drive detection and handling of Samba shares
      • Customize file extensions to protect
      • Limit protection to files under a chosen size, or use unlimited
      • Protect files with given attributes (hidden, etc)
    • Watching methods
      • Folder Watching events
        • Only available on Windows
        • Not available on Linux, Mac, Unix, or Samba drives from the same
      • Polling
        • Fall-back watching method when folder watching is unavailable
        • Scan folders recursively to find changes at chosen intervals
        • Individual path poll interval selection
    • When to backup
      • Configurable backup delay
      • Customizable polling intervals for polling method
    • Backup to anywhere
      • Local hard drive
      • Remote network drive
        • Detection of drive offline
      • Other re-writable backup device
    • How long to keep backups
      • Configurable full protection (number of days to keep all versions)
      • Configurable partial protection (number of days to keep latest version)
    • Automatically start at login
    • 12/24 hour time viewing format
    • Log of backed up and not-backed up files
    • Configurable performance
      • Background vs. foreground processing
  • First-run wizard
  • History Explorer to restore and browse backups
    • Two ways to view backups
      • Folder View - organized by folders
        • Ability to purge all backups under a given folder
        • Ability to set a label on all latest backups in a given folder
      • Time View - organized by time
        • Organized into time categories
          • Today
          • Yesterday
          • Monday
          • Last Week
          • etc.
    • Filename and foldername filters to find files quickly in either view
    • Individual file history
      • Label any version
      • Delete individually
    • Simple version comparison
      • Compare any two versions
      • Differences highlighted
      • Difference summary with context
      • Merge all or individual changes
      • Restore either viersion
        • Over original
        • To other location
  • Advanced editor
    • Uses Scintilla
      • Code colorization
      • Folding
      • Incremental searching
      • Fast
      • Copy code right to the clipboard
    • Customizable
      • Font
      • Font size
      • Highlight colors
  • Dockable interface elements
  • Popup shows total backed up files
  • Editor integration
    • Plugin for Visual Studio
    • Emacs and vi integration
    • Easy integration into any other editor
  • Scriptable
  • Baseline/Update on demand
  • Purge backups no longer needed
    • By filename filters
    • By size
    • Etc.
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