August 24th, 2009· Performance was speeded up
· Now amount of parralel packing processes can be setted up in Configurator
· Options became portable through versions
· Documentation now is under GOST RF on documentation of software
· Logs location now is possible to define again, however it has good default value
· Changes
· Scheduler now uses .net internal GC for performance
· Scheduler is more stable for not NT windows
· Restoration Tool merged to Configurator
· Logotype added
· KNeo package since now isn't used in application
· Installer now can increase speed of application Ui if user has asministrative
· privileges
· Logging simplified;
· Scheduler: messages added;
· In support mode settings are added to the file log
· Configuration change: schedule and configurator options were moved to profile options
· Desktop folder(with Documents one) is added to default backup task
· Now events before and after backup can be easily configured, also backup can be
· passed as parameter, those tasks can be turned off in backup master and cancelled
Bug Fixes:
· Method not found: 'Void
· System.Runtime.GCSettings.set_LatencyMode(System.Runtime.GCLatencyMode)'. Fixed;
· Stopping of copying to storages could lead to backupUi fail;
· Configurator -removeLocalSettings could crash if there any data was in folders;
· Several logs in one day could lead to Configurator fail.
· When scheduler was disabled or there was nothing to schedule Configurator could not
· stop the running at this moment scheduler.
· Critial: Backup could not cancelled. This is a MS .Net Framework 2 bug. Workarounded
· Single instance of scheduler sometimes could lead to halt(mutexes issue)
· Cancellation of running events before backup fixed and does not crash program any
· more
· When there's not enough place in temp folder program crashed: now it outputs
· message to log with hint on issue
May 4th, 2009· Changes
· Configurator settings moved to %userprofile%Application DataBUtil-x.x folder and prepared for any future updates of tool
· Added possibility to review last log and empty log folders from Configurator Logging
· Scheduler settings became portable through BUtil versions
· Restoration now uses 7zg (localized, can be cancelled, shows exact progress) without loosing speed
· Opening of html files became non-blocking program
· Isx removed from installer, now .Net presence is defined in more comfortable way
· 7z updated
Usability improvements:
· Integration with external scheduler requires less manual operations
· Added in Configurator 'have no network and internet', 'don't need scheduler', 'don't care about scheduler startup', 'hide 'About' tab': this helps to reduce available functional
· Documentation moved to html
· In BackupUi progress of backup now shows current processing compression item and storage without loosing speed of compression
· Links in logs look pretty now
Bugs:
· Fixed installer issues with links
· Colors of Configurator were hard-coded
· Hints were fixed
· Broken 7-zip binaries in some cases were leading to 'OK'-behaviour(when logs are in Normal mode)
· Critical: Exception whith closing logs in BackupUI, that could lead to non-informative logs
· Critical: file names were not encrypted in image
· Critical: configuration files were not encrypted
Several key decisions:
· No any docs in PDF in future to reduce requirements of software
· License updated
March 23rd, 2009· Changes
· Update mecanizm added
· Ghost integration with Windows Scheduler now is possible(see 6.3 in documentation)
Usability improvements:
· ui improvements in Configurator, backupUi, Restoration
· Questioning if user is sure to stop backup removed from backup ui. However it still exist on closing form
Bugs:
· Critical: when password wasn't specified in Configurator and user tried to specify it in Backup UI, password didn't applied and backup was unprotected Swapping backup ui form issue with hidden form
· Uninstalling issues with removing settings were fixed 4. Async restoration
Several key decisions:
· Associating of files with Restorator depends on windows registry. This feature now was removed from project to improve portability of project. In future maybe it will be included in installer
· -GI and -GU switches removed
· Mentalis code excluded from project(and license too). This is done to improve portability, decrease OS dependence and avoid unistallation issues
November 5th, 2008· Removed unused settings of configurator
· Refactored storing of options, storages architecture, logging classes, Scheduler PL: removed form which resulted in less by default memory usage, BackupUi
· Bug fix with backup in progress
· Bug fix with target .Net Framework for scheduler
· Bug fix with 'Stand by' mode
· Added less resource mode for Scheduler and improved their utilization
· Improved output for tray aplication of remained time
· Published console tool md5Signer with enhanced features
· Improved Ui of backupUi: tray icon
· Added features of power management in backupConsole tool
· 2 Bug fixes in Console tool with utilizing log resources fixed and parsing command line arguments
· Bug fix with scheduling fixed: when backup finished new time was not counted
· 2 Bug Fixes with pretty time span formatter
· Speeded up starting manual backup from ghost appliation on 30 seconds
· Not a donation ware now
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