New Open-Source Backup Manager Released!

[inutero]

An Anonymous person over at the Elotrolado Spanish forums has released a "Open Source" version of the "Backup Manager", which you can compile and play with on your PS3, hopefully it will open the door to more improvements and better game compatibility in the near future!

Open Manager v1.0

This application has been made by an anonymous person non seeking fame, profit or benefit.

I don't want to cause any damage to the video game industry, but it is not reasonable that these consoles (expensive cost) are constructed like butter and we can not do anything to preserve the health of the lens of our readers (my console model cannot be repaired), While Sony is rubbing his hands when you send to repair a console and them are dedicated to eliminating original features of the console, as PS3 Other OS and Linux, relying on what they think best for your business and not caring a shit or the feelings of their users or their acquired rights as users and owners of their consoles.

The video-game industry only wants control, oligopoly, money, pursuit of anything that does not benefit their interests and if it is possible, force legal changes using their influence and power while we're just anonymous people we have to endure all the crap on hardware that is passed through a computer, just to avoid taxes.

So I decided to do an experiment: I decided to see if I can make a BACKUP and Homebrew purpose loader (legal in my country), release the source code and waits to see what happens. Maybe someone has the Sony SDK 1.92 and wants to compile, it but that's not my problem.

Obviously, is 'illegal' to build things with the SONY SDK unlicensed but this is only source code

FEATURES

Open Manager has the next features:

- Supports up to 512 items from two USB devices, internal hdd and bluray

- Ability to copy games from bdvd to hdd0 or USB's, from hdd0 to USB's or from USB's to hdd0. It is done asking to you the destination device. It use uses asynchronous reading and writing for fast copy.

- Special support for big files in FAT: it splits files >= 4GB using .666xx fragments (if the file is name.ext, the file splits as name.ext.66600, name.ext.66601,...). This file is not bootable and it is marked using '_' as folder prefix. The file is joining when you copy it to hdd0 device

- Automatically finds the path of the games and asks to you about it. In other case, if the Open Manager is installed in the hdd0 creates one. You can change it pressing L2+START later.

- Including checking game option (pressing L1). It displays information about the files, size, splits or big files, if it have one.

- Support for Homebrew: you can creates "homebrew" folder in root USB FAT device and put here others folders with an EBOOT.BIN (.self format) and one ICON0.PNG. Also you can use the internal hdd0. Homebrew is launched directly and receive the path in argv[0].

- FTP support to upload homebrew: open_manager uses "OMAN46756" as user, by default. I recommend flashfxp to use it, because FTP support is not very good...

NOTE: Open Manager works with Hermes payload update. So,if you return from game list, apps_home can launch games without one disc (some games don't work without any disc), but if you return from Homebrew, apps_home works from usb000

NOTE2: You can modify the program as you want, but please, make public the source code

News Source: http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_open-manager-1-0_1494777

NOTE: I have no idea if this works or not. The source code looks good but I'd still wait until someone else as compiled and tested it. But please no attaching or linking to the compiled version, that is something to do in the private area of your home!

[dualdeath]

Special support for big files in FAT: it splits files >= 4GB using .666xx fragments (if the file is name.ext, the file splits as name.ext.66600, name.ext.66601,...). This file is not bootable and it is marked using '_' as folder prefix. The file is joining when you copy it to hdd0 device

this I don't get.. hmmmm.. anyone care to elaborate?

edit: uh, maybe it means i could backup a game with file/s bigger than 4gb in the external drive.. or maybe not?

[inutero]

this I don't get.. hmmmm.. anyone care to elaborate?

I think it's a way to store games with files over 4GB's on your external drive. They won't be playable from there, but you can copy them over to the internal drive.

I guess it's useful if you have a small internal drive and don't want to store games on your PC and use FTP.

[Xeauron]

Big news, nice.

[moh.sakhaii]

I will test it now and report back.

EDIT: It worked and I'm pleased to tell anyone interested these things:
1- the interface is changed and it's nicer in my opinion
2- It asked me if I want to use LAUN1234 as my directory of games.
I didn't test it much more, I'm gonna take a screenshot with my camera

[chesh]

Sounds extremely promising! Can't wait to see more development on this

[Irvysan]

Excellent news!

[naughtydog]

I will test it now and report back.

are you going to compile it? very nice if YES and the report should list it's features please

[Kindred]

great news indeed many things are gonna come from this

[csta]

Please post the actual pkg file so we can getting using this puppy :P