· In this version they have updated backup types, implemented in the program. The Advanced Stack backup type will no longer be supported since this version. Instead, we have improved Incremental and Differential backups which are more progressive and fast to make. Now incremental backup allows you to back up files which have been updated or added since last backing up. In previous version you could back up files that have been updated only.
Now you can manage a cycle of Incremental or Differential backing up more flexibly. You can define four conditions when to stop making incremental | differential backups and to begin a new backup cycle with remaking of a full backup:
· When the total volume of the incremental or differential backups will exceed N percents from the size of full backup;
· After N Incremental or differential backups have been made;
· After N days since last full backing up;
· On next (Day | Week | Month | Hour | Year) since last full backing up.
· In this version we have updated backup types, implemented in the program. The Advanced Stack backup type will no longer be supported since this version. Instead, we have improved Incremental and Differential backups which are more progressive and fast to make. Now incremental backup allows you to back up files which have been updated or added since last backing up. In previous version you could back up files that have been updated only.
Now you can manage a cycle of Incremental or Differential backing up more flexibly. You can define four conditions when to stop making incremental | differential backups and to begin a new backup cycle with remaking of a full backup:
· When the total volume of the incremental or differential backups will exceed N percents from the size of full backup;
· After N Incremental or differential backups have been made;
· After N days since last full backing up;
· On next (Day | Week | Month | Hour | Year) since last full backing up.
· In this verson we improved interaction with FTP. In earlier version all ftp settings are stored in a backup profile, but now the settings of each FTP site are stored in a separate config file FTPL.xml.
· In earlier versions there were bugs in the backup scheduler. The scheduler could hardly launch tasks under the specified user's account because this account required special privilegies. Now this bug have been fixed, and requirements to privileges are lowered. This improvement essentially simplifies configuring the scheduler to start up tasks under usual user's account. The program was tested under Windows XP,2003,VISTA systems.
· In earlier versions there were bugs in the backup scheduler. The scheduler could hardly launch tasks under the specified user's account because this account required special privilegies. Now this bug have been fixed, and requirements to privileges are lowered. This improvement essentially simplifies configuring the scheduler to start up tasks under usual user's account.
· In this version the backup scheduler have been improved. In earlier versions the scheduler couldn't be installed in Vista. Now the program became Vista compatible, and the scheduler can be installed properly in Vista environment. You can install the schedule as a service or as background task - both variants are tested and working fine in Vista.
· One thing is not resolved in this release yet. We were compelled to build the jobs manager program (scheduler.exe) as a program with system privileges. It means that if you start up scheduler.exe to manage your backup tasks and Vista's UAC is ON then you need to confirm launching of the program. We know this is not convenient, and hope to fix the problem in the following releases.
· In this version we have added a new feature to backup scheduler. Now the program can automatic launch backup job when you insert removable media. Due to this feature you can schedule backing up on inserting UBS Flash Drive or on inserting DVD. Moreover, the scheduler can permit or decline start up backups in dependence of the media volume label you've inserted. This enables you to link start up of a job with inserting of related media
· In this version a new feature of saving backups have been added. Now in addition to a primary backup directory you can configure saving backups to one or more secondary directories. Due to this improvement you can save the same backup to several directories in one backup job. This feature highly increases the safety of your data, because now you can back up to different locations by one backup profile. For example you can select secondary directories on HDD, USB flash drive or on network resource simultaneously.
· The copying backups to a secondary location is performed quite cautiously. If any secondary directory is not accessible (for any reason) then the program does not break execution. Instead d_back generates a warning message and continue backing up.
· In this version we have improved the realization of macros in backup profile.
· Now you can use macro fields in in the majority of config settings such as Primary Backup Directory, Backup Name, File Path, FTP Path, OS Commands, SUBJ, BODY. Pay attention, that now you can use macro names in paths (File Path and FTP path), this was impossible in the previous version.
· We have expanded a list of standard macros, and have included into it windows standard folders such as Program Files, My Documents ..etc., flash drives, envoronment variables.
· In the new version you can implement environment variables into backup parameters as a macro, and you can specify removable usb drive as macro without any binding to the usb drive letter.
· Moreover you can now create your own macros.
· Due to this improvement you can create backup profiles which are maximum independent of you PC configuration.
· We have expanded a set of examples by new ready-to-use backup profiles with macros.
· Excellent html help with a lot of graphics. We have included 11 examples of backup profiles into distribution kit. In this examples we try to demonstrate the main features of the program. We hope this will help new users to explore the program more quick and with the minimal efforts.
· In this version we have improved the backup scheduler. Now you can invoke backup manager from jobs manager. This enables you to edit and explore backup profile directly from the jobs manager program.
· Some changes were made in FTP engine. The FTP upload algorithm have been improved. Now the program try to fix timeout errors on unstable TCP connections. Backup scheduler was changed.
· Some changes were made in FTP engine. The FTP upload algorithm have been improved.
· Now the program try to fix timeout errors on unstable TCP connections.
· Backup scheduler was changed. In earlier version sometimes you couldn't abort an active job. In this version this bug have been fixed.
· Format of scheduler logging files have been changed.
· In this version PKZip's Zip64 support has been added. You can compress up to 2 147 483 647 files into an archive. Uncompressed, Compressed, and Archive file sizes can be up to 2^63-1 bytes in length (at about 18 million terabytes).
