April 13th, 2012· Fix: For some FTP/SFTP servers, there was a warning about files uploaded with a different size.
· Fix: Catalog file was not renamed on some FTP/SFTP servers.
· Fix: Backup russian characters from Russian OS and restore to English OS problem fixed.
March 23rd, 2012· Fix: Backup4all did not run at start when using a domain user account.
· Fix: Customized filters couldn't be modified after creation.
· Fix: Using independent splits when backing up to FTP caused an invalid warning.
January 25th, 2012· Fix: Outlook accounts with special characters in their names were not backed up
· Fix: Backup destination was not changed when opening a catalog from USB
· Fix: Layout.ini file was not correctly recreated
· Fix: The test for predefined FTP configuration did not work in the new backup wizard.
August 8th, 2011· Fix: In some cases, the scheduler password was asked again when saving the job
· Fix: Backup on demand using OTB button was not working
· Fix: When a backup was aborted because the action before it failed, all buttons for that job were grayed out
· Fix: When using Mirror backup, the folders were not removed from FTP destination if they were deleted from sources.
August 8th, 2011· Fix: Successful email was sent even if external drive was disconnected
· Fix: Cache size for burner engine was increased
· Fix: The merged files will be deleted only after the resulting zip is uploaded to destination
· Fix: Scheduled tasks cannot be created if user name contains a space
· Fix: Properties window was not displayed completely for large fonts with small resolutions
April 19th, 2011· New: Added a Backup4all gadget for Windows Vista and Windows 7
· New: The CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning engine was updated
· New: An exclamation sound is played when the CD/DVD/Blu-ray needs to be changed
· New: New backup tags were added for hour, minute and second
· New: When forcing a shutdown during the backup, you will be notified that "Shutting down will corrupt current backup"
· Fix: Excluding a file from sources lead to removing the entire folder
· Fix: If the upload of a file failed, the retry caused the progress to exceed 100%
· Fix: Clean backup was executed on external drives even if those were disconnected
· Fix: Filters could not be changed from Include to Exclude
· Fix: The application did not start when computer was idle
· Fix: When backing up to a CD/DVD/Blu-ray, the fist execution date was not correctly imported after the second session
· Fix: If "Test after backup" option was not used, the application was still asking for the disk
· Fix: Importing backup jobs in Professional or Standard from Lite was not working
· Fix: "After backup" action was not executed if running from command line
· Fix: The zip name in log error messages was empty in certain situations
· Fix: The log was not open with the selected Log Viewer in all cases
· Fix: In the backup list, the last selected group was not saved after a restart
· Fix: The dot character was not allowed in a tag name
· Fix: The default backup type couldn't be changed in scheduler
February 23rd, 2011· Switching between languages will hide the history
· Environmental variables are for destination folders on FTP/SFTP too
· Some fixes for backup to FTP and SFTP destinations
January 25th, 2011· French language update
· When proxy was not available, check for updates stopped but now tries without proxy too
· Backup jobs were not imported if a job with the same name already existed
· Some errors fixed when backing up to SFTP
· Scheduler at system shutdown did not work correctly when the backup settings were set to All Users
· Changing the scheduler from Main interface to Command line removed the task
October 28th, 2010· Fix: There was a "permission denied" error when backing up to some SFTP servers
October 26th, 2010· Fix: Limit number of file versions did not work for FTP/SFTP
· Fix: Canceling backup in Progress View was hanging the process in some cases
October 19th, 2010· New: Added "Progress view"
· New: The progress bar contains now more details
· New: New GUI translation added (Finnish)
· New: Scheduled jobs now show an extra icon in the backup list
· New: Added command line parameters for "Difference Viewer"
· New: Added "Active" checkbox for filters
· New: Scheduled tasks can be created via Remote Desktop
· New: Shutdown pop-up notification is shown even if backup is running in background
· New: Repair function from "Control Panel" works even if installed from exe
· Fix: Changing the destination folder name was not updated on FTP
· Fix: Pause during merge was not working properly
· Fix: Brief view not showing the correct detaild for new open jobs
· Fix: Backup jobs from CD/DVD cannot be open because of read-only attribute
· Fix: Sheduled backups at 00:00 or 12:00 AM were not correctly listed in Backup view
· Fix: Restore Preview page shows the UTC time, not the local time
· Fix: Shutdown after backup did not work if no user is logged on
· Fix: Standalone scheduler does not run at startup or at logon
· Fix: Command line Access Violation when local catalog was not used
· Fix: CD/DVD was not refreshed after backup
· Fix: User intervention was expected for scheduled groups
· Fix: In some cases, the application did not start at Windows startup
· Fix: Message not clear when the CD/DVD was missing for a scheduled job
October 19th, 2010· Fix: Fixed problem with long "Preparing shadow copy" message during the backup
· Fix: Removed false errors during restore of NTFS files with permissions
· Fix: Copy NTFS permissions problem fixed
· Fix: Dll problem fixed for Windows 2000 server
August 13th, 2010· Fix: Vscsrv2008 crashes under Windows Vista / 7 / 2008 32 bit.
August 13th, 2010· Fix: Temporary files were not deleted during the restore of multiple splits.
· Fix: Scheduled backup at system shutdown was asking for a password in some cases.
· Fix: "Invalid request id" warning when backing up to SFTP.
· Fix: Backup view not expanded correctly in some cases.
· Fix: Cannot open catalog from a mapped drive.
· Fix: Vscsrv.exe crashes under Win XP 64-bit.
· Fix: SQL Server Backup was automatically triggered when using backup open files option.
· Fix: Rename backup jobs from removable drives.
· Fix: Select folder and driver destination does not indicate the specified folder.
· Fix: Job was not renamed after changing the destination from CD to local.
· Fix: "Exclude from backup sources" option does not work for new files.
May 18th, 2010· Fix: File/folder icons were not correctly displayed in Explore View.
· Fix: Error while restoring Microsoft Outlook backups to original location.
· Fix: AV when backing up to CD/DVD using command line.
May 18th, 2010· Fix: SSL settings were not correctly saved.
· Fix Some language updates.
January 20th, 2010· New: Option added to open backups from specific locations (Local, Network, FTP/SFTP)
· New: Backup jobs can now be moved in the backup list(drag-and-drop)
· New: Test runs after the merge operation too
· New: Auto-complete path for network locations
· Fix: The number of warnings in email notification was not correct
· Fix: Backup4all froze while paused for a longer period of time
· Fix: Mirror backup to CD/DVD/Blu-ray spaning on multiple disks
· Fix: Warning message when cannot open read-only catalog file
· Fix: "Backup all groups" scheduler did not work correctly
· Fix: Restore with problems from "Getting Started" page
· Fix: "Filter by action" under Scheduler page did not work correctly
· Fix: Some fixes when backing up open files
· Fix: AV when backing up to CD/DVD/Blu-ray using command line
· Fix: "Open" and "View with Notepad" options fixed
November 7th, 2009· New: Backup to SFTP was added
· New: Added a new option that lets you Backup all groups
· New: Option to split files larger than a specific size for FTP backups
· New: Select the scheduler priority
· New: Split the backup according to a number of files/folders
· New: Change the scheduler username and password for multiple jobs
· New: New option to "Store temporary catalog data in memory"
· New: "Minimize to tray when finished" added for backup on demand
· Fix: Pressing Cancel during the Clean operation is not possible anymore
· Fix: "Last Backup" and "Last backup status" from Brief view will be updated even if no files were backed up
· Fix: Cancel backup during catalog upload will not result in a corrupt catalog
· Fix: Test with warnings for Backup4all configurations plugin on Vista
· Fix: Index out of bounds during independent test for mirror
· Fix: Backup4all did not close after run for backups on demand
· Fix: Standalone scheduler fix (was not starting if application was not started)
· Fix: Backup open files on 64-bit OS
· Fix: Desktop.ini file was modified after backup on Windows 2008 R2
· Fix: The scheduled task was not created if switching to another application during setup
· Fix: Incorrect OTB device detection fixed
· Fix: Skipping files from disconnected source drives is faster
· Fix: Restoring file with non-English characters
· Fix: Cannot run Backup4all Portable U3 from a limited account
· Fix: Backup at system shutdown was not turning the computer off
June 15th, 2009· New: Added Unicode filename support (files with non-standard characters can be easily backed up now)
· New: Backup4all is now compatible with 64-bit operating systems too
· New: Environment Variables can be used when defining new filters (e.g. %temp%, %SystemRoot%)
· New: File versions can be compared now
· New: Added "Select columns" option in the right-click menu of the versions section (Explore View)
· New: Added option to select new filetype for log files (.txt is accepted now too, given that .log files cannot be opened on Blackberry devices)
· New: Added option "Remove from sources" when right-clicking a file in Explore View
· New: Added "Run With" and "Job Type" in schedule lists
· New: Added a new button for "Ignore all" during restore
· New: Added message for mirror backups to FTP when splitting large files and there is not enough space in temp (Ftp allows files of max 2GB)
· New: Added notification if the CTM gets corrupted (ask user to reinstall application)
· Update: If the notification email has an attachment larger than the sending limit, only the email is sent (without attachment)
· Update: Sources can be modified now even after selecting a Predefined Backup job (this way a backup job can be used as a "template" for future backup jobs)
· Fix: Various fixes for mirror backups (with zip) to removable drives and FTP
· Fix: In particular cases the .bkc got corrupted
March 17th, 2009· New: Backup to Blu-ray discs and HD-DVD (or from Blu-ray/HD DVD) is now supported
· New: Added support for backing up to dual layer DVDs
· New: Added plugin to backup Microsoft Outlook automatically
· New: Added show excluded file no. and excluded folder no. (in Test/Cleanup window, Backup View, Restore/Choose backup numbers window)
· New: Added text description field for selected filter in Options->Filters
· New: "Check all"/"Uncheck all" buttons were added to Restore Wizard
· New: Added the possibility to enable/disable automatic weekly updates during setup
· New: Added new predefined splits for Blu-ray and dual layer DVDs
· New: Predefined global filters are added automatically to new backup jobs
· Update: Optimized "Update catalog" process for jobs with many backup numbers
· Update: Before/After actions now allow shortcuts
· Update: Faster "Expand all" in Backup View and Explore View
· Update: Faster catalog update after backup
· Update: Plugins are listed in alphabetical order
· Update: Explorer like multiselect handling in Backup View / Explore View
· Update: Added text box on the Compression page, informing about the encryption feature applicability
· Update: During open file backup, if a file is not found via the shadow copy volume service, it looks for it directly in the source
· Update: Optimized the speed for backup jobs that were created using predefined plugins.
· Update: Modified the merging procedure when using independent zip splits
· Update: Drastically reduced the time needed to reindex the backup catalog (after a backup terminated abnormally)
· Update: Automatic detection and conversion of backup catalog from version 3 to 4 (when needed)
· Update: Added command line parameters for setup
· Update: Compatible with Windows 7 (beta)
· Fix: When using mirror with zip, files with long path were not copied
· Fix: "Delete sources after successful backup" did not remove folders from sources
· Fix: ICO images with resolution over 32x32 and alpha blending were not loaded as backup job icons
· Fix: Filters containing absolute paths were ignored
· Fix: Testing a mirror backup (with zip and AES encryption) to FTP returned errors even when successful
· Fix: Timeout while waiting to stop expand
· Fix: In specific cases, "Close after run" was ignored for scheduled groups
· Fix: Disabled schedulers were still executed on Vista
· Fix: Files were not deleted during incremental backups set to keep only 3 versions
· Fix: Use existing FTP configuration in New Backup Wizard
· Fix: "Limit number of backups" and "Merge backups" are now taken into account when backing up to USB flash drives (if the backup is not spanned)
· Fix: Scheduled jobs for other users were available for the current user too
· Fix: Miscelaneous fixes for filters
· Fix: When running a full backup to an external drive, no error was shown in some cases if the drive was disconnected
· Fix: Bandwidth limitation was ignored when set through the Options-Ftp window
· Fix: When using the Merge backups option, files that only have one version and have the status excluded will be deleted
September 24th, 2008· New: Completely rewritten to allow backing up large number of files and folders with moderate resource usage
· New: Option to archive and encrypt files individually when using mirror backup
· New: Backup can now be paused/resumed/stopped
· New: Backup/Restore/Test/Cleanup history
· New: Automatic updates
· New: Back up empty folders
· New: The new version has a redesigned interface with a new Backup Properties section.
· New: “Getting Started” window with shortcuts to main operations
· New: NTFS permissions and alternate streams are now copied in mirror backups
· New: Additional views: Backup View and Brief View
· New: Option to password protect program interface
· New: Set memory usage for backing up
· New: Create and use predefined filters
· New: Limit the number of file versions
· New: MSI setup for automatic deployment
· New: Added new views for the backup groups/jobs in the backup list
· New: Search as-you-type for backup jobs/groups in backup list
· New: Added combo-box to easily filter backup groups
· New: Plugin manager to easily add/remove plugins
· New: Multiple files/folders can be selected in Sources folder tree in New Backup Wizard and Backup Properties
· New: Added icon for selected destination and selected backup type in Backup Properties
· New: Added the possibility to see passwords while typing them
· Update: List the file paths from destination in the test log
· Update: Mirror backup: if a source drive is not available (network share, usb stick, ...) then the files from that drive are not excluded from backup
· Update: Scheduler: "Abort backup when network sources are not available" option applies to all types of sources
· Update: Updated internal CD/DVD burning engine
· Update: Added warning on scheduling with blank passwords
· Update: New backup group is created by default on first run
· Update: Sources tree list resizes with window
· Update: Mouse wheel can be used to scroll Sources tree list
· Update: Defined folder filters now apply to full folder path too
· Update: Plugins used in backup jobs cannot be deleted
· Update: Main windows will remember their last size and position
· Update: Show a message when the added plugin (*.xml) is not valid
September 1st, 2008· Version 4.0 Buid 102
September 1st, 2008· Version 4.0 Buid 102
August 18th, 2008· Completely rewritten to allow backing up large number of files and folders with moderate resource usage
· Option to archive and encrypt files individually when using mirror backup
· Backup can now be paused/resumed/stopped
· Backup/Restore/Test/Cleanup history
· Automatic updates
· Back up empty folders
· Added startup window with shortcuts to main operations
· NTFS permissions and alternate streams are now copied in mirror backups
· New Views: Backup and Brief
· New option to lock program interface
· Possibility to set memory usage for backing up
· New option to allow adding predefined filters
· MSI setup for automatic deployment
May 9th, 2007· "Clean backup" action added
· Option to set a destination folder for FTP backups
· Option to use extensive passive mode for FTP transfers
· Added XML plug-in system
· CD/DVD burn fixes
April 26th, 2007· "Clean backup" action added
· Option to set a destination folder for FTP backups
· Option to use extensive passive mode for FTP transfers
· Added XML plug-in system
· Option to use native Win32 interface for primary burning engine
· CD/DVD burn fixes
October 11th, 2006· Option to send email notifications after the "Test" operation
· "Test" operation added as action in "Scheduler"/"Create Shortcut"
· "Clear backup before run" option added in "Scheduler"/"Create Shortcut"
· New parameters for
· "Do not create drive letter folder" option added in "Restore Wizard"
· "Restore Latest Version", "Restore Latest Version To" added as drop down actions for the "Restore" toolbar option
· New parameters for command line application: /TEST, /CLEAR
April 19th, 2006· Added FTP resuming support
· SSL support for email notifications
· Added "Compress the log file" when using email notifications
· Option to "Use standalone scheduler"
· Added "Hide window" for command line
· Added "Load CD/DVD before backup"
· Added "Warn before canceling backup"
· Added "Show hidden files in open dialogs"
· Added "No success sound/email" to sound/email notifications
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