What's new in Personal Backup 6.3.7.1
Sep 19, 2023
- Bug fixes:
- Copying attributes of subdirectories
New in Personal Backup 6.2.24.0 (Apr 12, 2023)
- Changes:
- Abort during encryption takes effect immediately
- Bug fixes:
- Locking the parent windows during a backup
- Closing a temporary file during gz compression
- Display of filename in verbose log file in case of error
- Resetting the archive bit on full backups in alternating schedules if
- the mode "update" is selected
- Advanced settings for Windows Task Scheduler
New in Personal Backup 6.3.1.0 Beta (Mar 15, 2023)
- Changes:
- Search function in file preview
- Optional sorting of scheduled tasks by date
- Display of switching schedule in the list of automatic tasks
- Bug fixes:
- Synchronize: Correction of change in 6.2.22
- FTP: directory change
- Size of the main window when changing the screen resolution
- Error logging (deletion of a file to be overwritten)
- Replacing wildcards with capital letters
- Entering a backup job into the task scheduler
New in Personal Backup 6.2.23.0 (Mar 15, 2023)
- Changes:
- Search option in file preview
- Optional sorting of scheduled tasks by date
- Display of alternating schedule in list of automatic tasks
- Bug fixes:
- Synchronization: query changed in version 6.2.22 fixed
- Error logging (deletion of a file to be updated)
- Replacement of placeholders using upper case letters
- Adding a backup task to Task Scheduler
New in Personal Backup 6.2.22.0 (Feb 26, 2023)
- Changes:
- Confirmation prompt when changing the encryption password
- Bug fixes:
- Synchronization: The query FileExists returns "false" even if a file exists but is not accessible - query changed (uses ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
- FTP: directory change
- Main window size when changing the screen resolution
New in Personal Backup 6.2.21.0 (Jan 28, 2023)
- Add jobs to "My Backup Jobs" list at selected one Job
- Bug fixes:
- Restore splitter positions in Backup.pas
- If the external data carrier is not connected, excluded Subdirectories not applied PbRestore: Click on the title bar of an empty list of files Zip archives
- PbRestore: display zip archives after switching over the list of previously open files
New in Personal Backup 6.3.0.2 Beta (Dec 29, 2022)
- Changes:
- Added language: Ukrainian
- Additional information in the log as to whether the backup was performed by one of the additional programs TbBackup, PbPlaner or PbStarter was started
- Improved error detection when logging out an alternative user
- Improved error detection when target disk is full
- Add jobs to "My Backup Jobs" list at selected one Job
- PbRestore: opt. Recovery from directories under consideration of backup copies
- Bug fixes:
- Wrong time display e.g. for scheduled tasks when the system setting is set to AM/PM
- Check for write permission in the source directory for "All new" and "incremental"
- Verification of large encrypted files
- PbRestore: status display, restoring from an alternate plan
- PbRestore: restore from zip archives
- PbRestore: command line options
New in Personal Backup 6.2.20.0 (Dec 20, 2022)
- Changes:
- Improved error check on loging off an alternate user
- Improved error check on full destination media
- Bug fixes:
- Erroneous time display e.g. on scheduled tasks if the system is set AM/PM
- Checking for write permission at the source in mode "Full" and "Incremental"
- Verfying large emcrypted files
- PbRestore: Restore from zip archives
- PbRestore: Command line options
New in Personal Backup 6.2.19.0 (Nov 24, 2022)
- Changes:
- Languages added: Ukrainian
- Additional information in log to show that the backup was started from one
- of the utilities TbBackup, PbnPlaner oder PbStarter
- PbRestore: opt. Restore from directories using security copies
- PbRestore: modified layout
- Bug fixes:
- PbRestore: status display, restore from schedules
New in Personal Backup 6.2.18.0 (Oct 25, 2022)
- Changes:
- Selection of utility programs in Control Panel
- Restore: improved error detection on restore from zip archives
- PbRestore: optional restore if creatime time
- Bug fixes:
- Error detection on deleting files at source
- Display of combo boxes on high resolution screens fixed
New in Personal Backup 6.2.17.0 (Oct 1, 2022)
- Changes:
- Start multiple backups from control panel: in sequence or in parallel
- Bug fixes:
- Printer selection in log view
- Issues resulting from a too narrow status window
- PbRestore: import printer settings from PB
New in Personal Backup 6.2.16.0 (Oct 1, 2022)
- Changes:
- New placeholder for external programs after backup: %logfile% = Log file
- Bug fixes:
- Restoring the progress window after having been minimized
- Displaying the hint about the directories to be backed up in control panel
New in Personal Backup 6.2.15.0 (Jul 8, 2022)
- Changes:
- Display of error log using the context menu in the taskbar
- PbRestore: new layout
- Edit Backup task: automatical detection if a USB source becomes available
- Bug fixes:
- Display of backup options
New in Personal Backup 6.2.14.0 (May 19, 2022)
- Changes:
- Display backup log via context menu of scheduled tasks
- Cleanup: enhanced logging of deleted empty directories
- Cleanup: new option to retain an empty root directory
- PbMon: start and stop monitoring via zje context menu in the task bar
- Directory dialog: network browsing on Windows 10, changes from 6.1.2.0 removed
- Bug fixes:
- Option "Scan directories" effects also on synchronizing and starting a backup
- manually from the desktop window
- - Opening a task from scheduled tasks
- Searching a file in the selection dialog for Restore and Cleanup
- Directory dialog: changing to parent directory, opening with network path containing an IP address
New in Personal Backup 6.2.13.0 (Apr 26, 2022)
- Changes:
- Notification in Windows Event Viewer on starting backups using the
- Windows Task Scheduler
- Accelerated synchronization on backup to compressed files
- Bug fixes:
- Placeholders in commandline
- Displaying backup tasks using an ampersand sign in filename
- Scanning the directories on type selection
- Defining time slots from command line
- Display error of synchronisation mode selection under Windows 11
- Several memory leaks
- Directory selection in verification
- FTP: needless time delay in directory listing removed
New in Personal Backup 6.2.12.0 (Mar 12, 2022)
- Changes:
- Progress indicator during synchronization
- TbBackup: enhanced error messages
- Bug fixes:
- Importing the settings for security copies from Backup to Restore, Verify and Cleanup
New in Personal Backup 6.2.11.0 (Feb 8, 2022)
- Changes:
- Opt. import of settings for security copies in Restore, Verify and Cleanup
- Deleting security copies via FTP
- Control Panel indicator whether elevated admin privilges are availbale
- Indicator in the start settings whether the Windows event logging is enabled
- Anzeige in den Start-Einstellungen, ob die Windows-Ereignisprotokollierung(see the program's install options)
- Bug fixes:
- Display of number of files of deleted directories prior to full and diff./incr. backups
- Canceling a program update
- Identification of reparse points
- Error detection on establishing an FTP connection
- Importing directories from Backup to Verify and Cleanup
New in Personal Backup 6.2.10.0 (Jan 7, 2022)
- Changes:
- New commandline option "/noupdate": kno check for program updates after startup
- Retrieving the free volume on server resources is done in an own thread
- to avoid latencies if not available
- Bug fixes:
- Parsing the commandline option "/ini:..."
- Number of files in status window after backup
- TCheckComboBox component
- Destination directory in Restore and Verify
- False error message in log on backup to a network server if a new
- subdirectory has to be crerated
- PbStarter: Editing the group list
New in Personal Backup 6.2.9.0 (Dec 22, 2021)
- Changes:
- PbStarter: editable list of groups
- Prompt whether to save a changed task for Restore, Verfify and Cleanup before
- Closing the window
- Entries in the dialog for Windows Task Scheduler will be retained on retry
- After error
- Bug fixes:
- Checking for invalid directories on verify
- Log entries on creating new subdirectories at the destination
- Selecting a time slot as file filter
- Selecting schedules on specific days of a month week
- Displaying files in PbRestore
New in Personal Backup 6.2.8.0 (Dec 7, 2021)
- Changes:
- Commandline options may contain Windows evironment variables
- Option to select multiple backup tasks to be started with Windows Task Scheduler all at once
- Improved comparing of files on backups into single zip files
- New startup logo
- Bug fixes:
- Copy of alternate data streams
- Filenames with commas in Windows Task Scheduler
- Canceling an automatic backup in quiet mode
New in Personal Backup 6.2.7.1 (Nov 11, 2021)
- Bug fixes:
- Adding a whole drive to the task.
New in Personal Backup 6.2.7.0 (Nov 6, 2021)
- Changes:
- Display of errors in automatic backups in control panel
- Display of splash screen
- Bug fixes:
- Position of program window using severeal monitors
- Selection of a directory
- Display of the directory to be saved in directory tree
- No updating of backup date and time after cancel
New in Personal Backup 6.2.6.0 (Oct 3, 2021)
- New:
- Common error log listing all failed backups (PbError.log)
- Changes:
- Improved display on high resolution screens
- Improved password entry on tasks using encryption and no fixed password
- New command line option "/sched" to identify backups in log file started by
- Windows Task Scheduler
- PbRestore: several improvements
- PbRestore: preview on restoring complete directories
- PbRestore: preview of single files from zip archives
- Bug fixes:
- Filter for filenames without extension
- PbRestore: progress indicator on unpacking zip archives
- PbRestore: cancelling the unpacking of a zip archive
New in Personal Backup 6.2.5.0 (Sep 7, 2021)
- Changes:
- Nesting of placeholders for log file (%dest%)
- Sorting the list of backup tasks in control panel will be made separated
- by comment sections
- Directory filters: no regular expression for '##' (escaped #)
- Notification in short log for verified copies
- Bug fixes:
- Selection of subdirectories
- Deleteing the last directory to be saved from list
- Display of long filenames in status window
- Display of lists on high resolution screens
- PbStarter: password entry and query
New in Personal Backup 6.2.4.0 (Aug 22, 2021)
- Changes:
- Options for security copies on backup and synchronization in mode
- "Root directory": separated by backup date and/or drives
- Clicking one of the icons in the task properties window in the control panel will open directly the associated page for editing
- Selection of log file in the preferences
- Selectable icon for the Windows notification area by right click
- Loading the required system libraries using FpuSafeLoadLibrary
- Bug fixes:
- Switching between include/exclude of subdirectories
- Option "Do not copy file attributes" was not used for security copies
- Renaming of security copies
- Verifying zip compressed single files with long file paths
- Display of destination in status window
New in Personal Backup 6.2.3.0 (Jul 21, 2021)
- Changes:
- Errors on executing schedules tasks are displayed in the list as hint
- Enhanced error message on backing up to zip archives
- An erroneous use of the Unix path delimiter (/) in Wondows paths will
- automatically be fixed
- PbStarter und TbBackup: no error handling on subsequent actions because
- this is only implemented for direct backups
- PbPlaner: settings for cycles and steps changed
- Bug fixes:
- Adjusting the window size to the screen
New in Personal Backup 6.2.1.0 (May 24, 2021)
- NEW:
- Optional synchronizing after restore
- CHANGES:
- Progress bar in new design
- Behavior on resizing the dialog windows
- BUG FIXES:
- Canceling the verification of a zip archive
- Hint in password dialog
- Repeating backups without diff./incr. and cycles of 7, 14, ... days
- PbRestore: Restore of encrypted zip archives
New in Personal Backup 6.2.0.0 (Apr 28, 2021)
- NEW:
- New icon design
- Using a special account also for Restore, Verify and Cleanup
- Information about destination (e.g. free space) in Control Panel
- Desktop shortcuts for Restore, Verify and Cleanup with own icon
- On first start after a new installation, the user will be prompted to customize the program preferences
- Install setup is created with Inno Setup 6.1.2
- CHANGES:
- Cancelíng a network connection under special user account after backup
- Icon in Windows notification area in "quiet" mode
- Detection of file systems
- Restore from zip archives per directory allows use of wildcards in filename (e.g. PBu-*.zip)
- Display of number of files with thousands separator
- Enhanced entries in verbose log for junction points
- Check for available source directory
- Automatic detection of +1h differences during time compare caused by changing to summer time if destination or source are lying on a FAT partition and the user did not specify this setting manually
- During the last automatic backups on login, a succeeding action can be selected
- TbBackup: modifications for Thunderbird 78
- TbBackup: editable settings for file and type filter
- PbRestore: logging of restored files
- Managing of version resources changed
- Automatic update in Windows XP must use the zip file because Inno Setup 6 does no longer support this system
- BUG FIXES:
- Cancelíng a network connection under special user account after backup
- Update of subdirectory tree
- Changing the destination between Windows and FTP
- Excluding security copies from verfify
- Time column in verbose log
- Directory selection of network resources
- Use of paragraph character in filenames on zip compression
- Log view if a full path is specified for the log file
- Backup of single files without extension
- Incrementing auf backup versio count (placeholder "%v#n%")
- Numeration of alternating schedules with 14, 21, ... days
- Log printout: line wrapping on new page
- On disabled log the task options were not displayed
New in Personal Backup 6.1.16.3 (Apr 20, 2021)
- Numeration of alternating schedules with 14, 21, ... days at end of cycle
- On disabled log the task options were not displayed
New in Personal Backup 6.1.16.2 (Apr 15, 2021)
- Bug fixes:
- Numeration of alternating schedules with 14, 21, ... days at end of cycle
- On disabled log the task options were not displayed
New in Personal Backup 6.1.16.1 (Apr 12, 2021)
- A new Control panel provides a fast overview of all backups and time schedules
- New utility program PbMon for real time backup of selected directories
- Many improvements and bug fixes
New in Personal Backup 6.1.15.0 (Mar 22, 2021)
- Changes:
- Enhanced entries in verbose log for junction points
- Bug fixes:
- Log view if a full path is specified for the log file
- Backup of single files without extension
New in Personal Backup 6.1.14.0 (Feb 26, 2021)
- Changes:
- Restore from zip archives per directory allows use of wildcards in
- filename (e.g. PBu-*.zip)
- Display of number of files wirh thousands separator
- Bug fixes:
- Changing the destination between Windows and FTP
- Excluding security copies from verfify
- Time column in verbose log
- Directory selection of network resources
- Use of paragraph character in filenames on zip compression
New in Personal Backup 6.1.13.0 (Feb 2, 2021)
- Bug fixes:
- Cancelíng a network connection under special user account after backup
- Directory selection in cleanup dialog
- Icon in Windows notification area in "quiet" mode
- Update of subdirectory tree
- Changing the destination between Windows and FTP
New in Personal Backup 6.1.12.1 (Jan 7, 2021)
- Bug fixes:
- Synchronization in mode "Selected files, retain other"
New in Personal Backup 6.1.12.0 (Jan 6, 2021)
- Changes:
- Automatic closure of log display on quitting the program
- Enhanced security on password entry (mail and FTP)
- Bug fixes:
- Position of control panel after starting with /force
- Backup button in control panel
- PbMon: calling the filter editor
- PbRestore: restore of timestamps of encrypted files
New in Personal Backup 6.1.11.0 (Dec 7, 2020)
- Changes:
- Display of TSpeedButton icons on high DPI and 64-bit
- PbStarter: optional selection of log file
- Bug fixes:
- Evaluating the exit code of ext. programs after backup
- Missing zip extension on backup by root directory into zip archive if the directory name includes a period
- Minimize and Pause button in status window not visible
- PbStarter: command line option /logmode
New in Personal Backup 6.1.10.1 (Nov 21, 2020)
- Changes:
- Position of main window on two screens
- New command line option "/noscale": no scaling of Icons
- Bug fixes:
- Scaling of icons on High DPI for TSpeedButton and 64 bit
- PbRestore: file display
New in Personal Backup 6.1.10.0 (Nov 6, 2020)
- Changes:
- Scaling of icons on high DPI
- Display of log directory in log dialog
- Regular expressions changed to TPerlRegEx
- Standard file filter with otional "AND" (+) and "NOT" (!)
- Optional user defined parameters in the command line for the Windows Task Scheduler
- Bug fixes:
- Dialog to edit file and directory filters
- Display of select dialog (unit SelectDlg) on scalings more than 100%
- Desktop shortcut for backup "By request"
- Subsequent action, e.g. shutdown, after running an automatic task from the command line (opt. #..)
- Security copies on synchronization in mode "Selected files .."
- Windows Task Scheduler: selection of weeks of months
- Wizard: directory selection on paths with volume name
- PbStarter: using alternate ini path from command line
- PbPlaner: event logging in Windows
New in Personal Backup 6.1.9.3 (Oct 15, 2020)
- Bug fixes:
- Dialog to edit file and directory filters
New in Personal Backup 6.1.9.2 (Oct 12, 2020)
- Bug fixes:
- Starting with an empty ini file raises a listindex error
New in Personal Backup 6.1.9.1 (Oct 10, 2020)
- New:
- Placeholder for backup mode in destination directory
- Bug fixes:
- Switching between include/exclude subdirectories
New in Personal Backup 6.1.9.0 (Oct 9, 2020)
- New:
- Enhanced selection to backup single files
- Changes:
- Optional use of creation and modification time for time slot selection
- After adding single files no subdirectories are scanned
- Optimization of file queries at the destination during backup
- Adjustable colors for comment line in list of backup tasks
- PbRestore: Preview on restore from zip archives
- Bug fixes:
- Cancelling the synchronization if source is missing
- Presettings for new verifications
- PbStarter: Initializing the mail dialog
New in Personal Backup 6.1.8.0 (Sep 7, 2020)
- CHANGES:
- PbPlaner: starting via Desktop shortcut allows multiple diff./incr. backups after user prompt
- Redesigned FTP units
- Separate setting for enable/disable Windows notifications (balloon tips)
- ".*" is automatically added to file filter if no extension is specified
- New log option: display all files not copied in long log
- BUG FIXES:
- Placeholder for date starting external programs
- Run of missed backups at a specified time of day
- Scannung of directories on opening a task
- Display of number of deletes files on synchronization
- TbBackup: Restore from other source directory
- Placeholder for abbreviated day of week with closing dot (e.g. used in Windows regional settings for German-Austria)
New in Personal Backup 6.1.7.0 (Aug 5, 2020)
- New:
- New option for automatic tasks: "By request"
- Starting the backup on the selected days of the week requires the command line parameter "#", an appropriate Desktop shortcut or a click on the taskbar context menu
- Optional reset of archive bit on restore
- New placeholder for destination: alternating versions (see 5.6.7.0)
- Optional use of the creation time for time slot selection
- Changes:
- Placeholder for name of log file were changed
- Display of log: optional selection if not found
- Placeholder for alternating days, weeks and months can be multi-digit
- On sychronization system directories (like System Volume Information) will be excluded if located in the root of a drive
- Log display on Restore, Verify and Cleanup
- Using a link as external program
- Notification in mail subject if the execution of an external program failed
- Bug fixes:
- Desktop shortcut on automatic tasks
- Updating the display of subdirectories
- Attributes and time stamps of drive roots are not set
- Backup of single zip files via FTP with verification
- Command line option /edit
New in Personal Backup 6.1.6.0 (Jul 1, 2020)
- Changes:
- Eroor message on invalid user in task scheduler
- Check for writeable destination uses random names
- Placeholder for volume name of destination in log names
- Optiona deletion of previous log entries
- Enhanced error information on creating of dektop shortcuts
- Bug fixes:
- Display of hidden command lines in log
- PbRestore: recognizing of zip archives with encrypted filenames if a size limit was specified on backup but only one segment was created
- Possible endless loop on synchronizing if option "Security copies" is activated
- Placeholder in external program settings for destination using volume name
New in Personal Backup 6.1.5.0 (Jun 2, 2020)
- New:
- Copying a list of all time schedules to clipboard
- Changes:
- Dialog for security copies on restore
- Presets for new tasks to restore, verfy and cleanup will be taken from
- the currently selected nackup task
- Using placeholders on replacement of directories to be backed up
- Bug fixes:
- Unassigned pointer in PbRestore (64-bit)
- Status window on loading a task or scanning the directories to be backed up
- was not displayed after "/autostart"
- Scanning the directories to be backed up before backup
- Canceling the scanning of the directories to be backed up
- Status window on deleting directories
- Deleting of directories containing security copies older than the specified
- number of weeks during backup
- Time slot on restore
- Restoring a previous state
- TbBackup: path checking
New in Personal Backup 6.1.4.0 (May 7, 2020)
- Changes:
- New identified file system: WinBTRFS
- Some adjustments to high resolution screens
- Internal unit references
- Bug fixes:
- Unexpected closing of status window on special configurations for external programs
- Occasional display issues in backup dialog
- Canceling by user on non existing net connection
- Replacement of invalid characters in filenames was not Unicode compatible
- Checking for not specified destination directory and overlapping of source and destination
New in Personal Backup 6.1.3.0 (Apr 6, 2020)
- New:
- Cleanup: Option to delete as many of the oldest files until a settable volume is reached
- Changes:
- Additional hints for backup destination (type, available space) in the control panel
- Context menu for tasks with option to display all files to be saved (only on diff./inc.)
- Display of help via taskbar menu
- PbPlaner: Logon type query changed from "interaktiv" to "batch"
- Bug fixes:
- Error handling in Restore, Verify and Cleanup
- External programs: returned exit codes > 255
- FTP: differentiation of lower/upper case of filenames
- Restore: error in dialog to change the time comparison tolerance of timestamps
- Backup: alternative name for temp. file if a directory of the same name already exists
- Interactive disabling a subsequent action during backup
New in Personal Backup 6.1.2.0 (Mar 14, 2020)
- Changes:
- Improved editing of history lists
- improvement on baccking up data to removable media and net id subdirectories
- are in- or excluded
- Command line option /log extended to /logmode (for better differentiation
- to /logdir)
- Directory dialog: no network browsing on Windows 10 if SMB1 protocol is
- not installed
- Bug fixes:
- "Save as" for tasks provided for time schedules
- Tooltips in control panel
- Name of desktop shortcut for multiple backups
- Execution of external programs using full paths
New in Personal Backup 6.1.0.1 (Jan 15, 2020)
- Bug fixes:
- Starting a backup under Windows 8 (system version query)
New in Personal Backup 6.1.0.0 (Jan 15, 2020)
- New:
- Additional attachments for mail delivery
- Processing of PowerShell scripts as external programs
- Confirmation on "Save as" und "Export" if fixed password is used
- Display icon in control panel if external programs are active
- On backups into zip archives, separated by root directory the archive name is generated from the drive letter (e.g. DrvK.zip)
- Changes:
- Improved script processing for external programs
- Improved dialog for external programs
- PbRestore: New option "include aubdirectories"
- PbStarter: Improved settings for Task Scheduler
- Utility programs: Path to ini file same as in PB
- Bug fixes:
- Backup via FTP, if a directory access was denied
- PbRestore: Restore after wrong passowrd entry
- PbRestore: Restore from zip archives
- FTP-Keep-Alive: Idle = 5 min, Interval = 1 min
New in Personal Backup 6.0.11.0 (Nov 7, 2019)
- Changes:
- Preferences for shutdown: if "lock computer" is enabled the hybrid sleep is not available
- Additional commandline option: /end:lockdown (lock and shutdown)
- Dialog for Desktop shortcuts
- Program update in taskbar context menu
- Display of progress on deleting files at destination (full,diff,incr)
- Colored highlighting of active automatic tasks
- Selection of FTP remote directory on backup
- Log file on restore using TbBackup
- PbMon: new option "Show user prompt on errors"
- Bug fixes:
- Display of console after execution of external programs
- Weekday selection in automatic task after language was changed
- Progress display on verifying zip archives
- Restore via FTP was hanging
- Speed display on backups into zip archives
- Execution of external programs
- Security copies on synchronization via FTP into a subdirectory
New in Personal Backup 6.0.10.0 (Oct 13, 2019)
- New:
- Comment lines can be added to the list of backup tasks in the control panel
- e.g. to arrange the tasks
- Changes:
- PbMon: optional operation background
- Moving of multiple entries in the list of backup tasks in the control panel
- To support a backup on shutdoen in Windows 10 (1903), the presetting for
- the "Power off" mode will be automatically changed to dmShutdown (see
- command line option "/end:shutdown").
- Bug fixes:
- Creating a Desktop shortcut to start a backup
- Desktop shortcuts for backup tasks havin spaces in filename
- Display of console windows before and after backup
- User break on hanging external applications
- PbStarter: error message in log after failed backup
- Opening an buj file while the editor window is opened
- Starting a second program instance
New in Personal Backup 6.0.9.0 (Sep 20, 2019)
- Changes:
- Backup tasks are added to the list "My backup tasks" after "Save as"
- New commanline option "/parallel" to start the specified backups in parallel
- Dialog to create desktop shortcuts
- Delete option in log display window
- Bug fixes:
- Security copies (>=10) bon backup via FTP
- Minimizing the status window
- PbMon: sometimes backup was not started in spite of changes
New in Personal Backup 6.0.8.0 (Aug 20, 2019)
- Changes:
- My backup/restore/cleanup/verify tasks: selection of multiple tasks possible
- The backup method "Separated by root directory" allows the selection of source directories on separate drives provided that the relevant subdirectories have differing names
- Revised dialogs for restore, cleanup and verify
- Optional alphabetical sorting if task lists
- Bug fixes:
- Updating file filter display
- Displaying synch mode hint was not reset on creating a new task
- Placeholders for source and destination
- Specifying file filters
- Display message if a medium is not inserted
- Synchronization before backup of empty destination directory
- Start of automatic backups only in standby mode
- File count on diff./incr. backups
- Deleting of surplus security copies on backup
- Cleanup: Deleting security copies with version count
- Directory selection on not existing volume name
New in Personal Backup 6.0.7.0 (Jul 17, 2019)
- Changes:
- Presets in Backup Wizard for FTP and zip
- Automatic closing of openend log window on stand by
- FTP: Show file size in log when copying ziü archives
- Max. delay after backup on logoff increasewd to 10 min
- Selection of multiple tasks for Windows Tasck Scheduler
- Bug fixes:
- The program hung on selecting a destination directory if the old path points to a not existing root directory
- On synchronization using the recycle bin the files of directories to be deleted were not included into total file count
- Checking for automatic program updates was only done on Autostart
- Verification of zip archives copied via FTP
New in Personal Backup 6.0.6.0 (Jun 19, 2019)
- Changes:
- Context in Windows notification area: Utilities added
- Selectionon backup: skip / cancel if a source drive is not available
- Preset "dmShutdown" instead of "dmPowerOff" for backup on logoff/shutdown (same as desktop shortcut)
- Installation: enabling entries in Windows Event Log
- Windows Event Log: entry on failed shutdown includes system error message
- Bug fixes:
- Control panel: selection after deleting a task
- TbBackup: detection of default profile
- Control panel: message on errors starting Restore, Verify and Cleanup
- Log: output on full backup of alternating schedule
- Log: time data in verbose log on backups into zip archive
- PbPlaner: catching up a missed full backup
- Backup to FTP as zip archive: deleting temp. files
New in Personal Backup 6.0.5.0 (May 17, 2019)
- Changes:
- Additional icon in control panel to tag a task that was inserted into Windows Task Scheduler
- Direct selection of a task in the list of scheduled tasks if an appropriate entry was found
- Hint on backup mode in control panel
- Revised management of tasks list
- Additional error messages in TbBackup
- Update to OpenSSL v1.0.2r from 2019-03-02
- Translation update for French and Russian
- Bug fixes:
- Splitter between backup settings and directory selection
- Error on command line option /reset
New in Personal Backup 6.0.4.0 (Apr 26, 2019)
- New:
- Windows Task Scheduler: Option to create and edit multiple schedules
- triggers) for each task
- Changes:
- Enhanced detection of external USB drives
- Windows Task Scheduler: icon in list view shows if last run was successful
- or not
- Backup-Editor: narrow window size no longer available
- Copying file attributes can optionally be disabled
- Bug fixes:
- On backup from a USB drive into a zip archive the drive letter inside
- the path names was not removed
- Restore: possible drive letters in path names are ignored
- PbStarter: on simultaneous starts of the program only the first instance
- could write to the log
- After creating a new backup task using the wizard some settings were not
- preserved in a right way
New in Personal Backup 6.0.3.0 (Mar 31, 2019)
- Changes:
- Icon in Control Panel to show if compression and/or encryption is enabled
- Updatedialog will automatically close after 10s (instead 5 s)
- Display of destination zip archive in Control Panel
- On starting backups from the Control Panel, you can optinally select multiple tasks
- SMTP: support of TLS v1.1 and TLS v1.2 enabled in addition to TLS V1.0 (TIdSSLIOHandlerSocketOpenSSL.SSLOptions.SSLVersions)
- FTP: no canceling of backup after error on directory change
- FTP: Enhanced error messages
- Bug fixes:
- FTP: On backup of an already compressed file as zip the previous version was deleted before creating a security copy
New in Personal Backup 6.0.2.0 (Mar 11, 2019)
- Changes:
- New option in Task Scheduler wizard: "Run with highest privileges"
- "Desktop" and "Links" added to selection of user folders in wizard
- Setting of default ports for normal and implicit FTPS
- User-selectable log files also for Restore, Cleanup und Verify
- Access to network resources as different user
- FTP: support of TLS v1.1 and TLS v1.2 enabled in addition to TLS V1.0 (TIdSSLIOHandlerSocketOpenSSL.SSLOptions.SSLVersions)
- FTP: Send socket command SO_KEEPALIVE to keep connection alive during data transfer
- Bug fixes:
- Selection of destination directory in Thunderbird restore
- Displaying progress on splitted zip archives
- Performing a subsequent action (e.g. shutdown) after canceling a backup
- Setting the command line options in TbBackup
- Mail delivery on running TbBackup from Windows Task Scheduler
- Backup on first logoff on particular days of the week
- Adding a new schedule for a backup task
New in Personal Backup 6.0.1.4 (Feb 14, 2019)
- New:
- New command line option "/erractions": Disable a subsequent action like shutdown if there were specific errors
- Display of directories to be backed up as hint in the control panel
- Changes:
- Directory selection dialog: If a directory cannot be found, the next available parent directory will be used
- Enhanced error messages on FTP transfer of zip archives
- Output of FTP server's capabilities in verbose log
- Deletion of task files
- Additional settings for comparison of files during backup (timestamp and size)
- Synchronizing of junctions
- Languages added: French, Spanish and Russian
- Bug fixes:
- Status display and log output on restore with errors
- Restoring encrypted files: a file that could not be restored due to a wrong password will be deleted at the destination instead of leaving a zero-byte file
- Deleting of empty directories on FTP backup
- Backup on first logoff on particular days of the week
- Progress indicator from file size
New in Personal Backup 6.0.1.3 (Feb 14, 2019)
- Changes:
- Improved details in the control panel
- Sizeable control panel
- Improved display captions
- Languages added: Italian and Portuguese
- Bug fixes:
- Deleting of backup tasks from "MyBackups" list
- Reading an empty zip archive
- Restore in mode "zip archives per directory" with empty root directory
New in Personal Backup 6.0.1.2 Pre-release (Jan 2, 2019)
- Changes:
- New group in Windows startmenu: Personal Backup 6
- Display of date from Wondows Task Scheduler
- Display position of log window fits to screen
- Enhanced error messages on FTP
- Optional editing of drive identifier in backup task
- Language added: Dutch
- Bug fixes:
- TbBackup: start using option /force and without /backupdir
New in Personal Backup 5.9.4.4 (Aug 8, 2018)
- Changes:
- PbRestore: Enhancements on retsore of alternating schedules
- Optional check of download for progam update using SHA256
- PbPlaner: Changes for execution using Windows Task Scheduler with different user account
- New TLS certificate
- Windows Task Scheduler: notification on invalid task names
- Bug fixes:
- Excluding of directories starting with space
- Selection of subdirectories using filters
New in Personal Backup 5.9.4.3 (Jul 12, 2018)
- Changes:
- Optional subsequent action for Restore Cleanup and Verify
- Password dialog was changed
- New options for status window in Windows Task Scheduler wizard
- Bug fixes:
- Synchronisation via FTP: output of directory names to log
- Indy10 - IdFTPListParseUnix: Exception on filenames with Chinese characters for day bur nor for month
- Backup into zip archives via FTP: optimization of reconnections
- Deleting of old security copies
- Restore from zip archives: handling of invalid timestamps
New in Personal Backup 5.9.4.2 (Jun 18, 2018)
- Changes:
- A drive letter (e.g. E:) can be replaced by the volume GUID (\?Volume{...})
- Update to OpenSSL v1.0.2o from 2018-03-27
- Bug fixes:
- Graying of directories no longer available
- Installation: handling of empty .zip registry keys
- Alternating schedules: daily cycles without full+diff./incr.
New in Personal Backup 5.9.4.1 (May 11, 2018)
- Changes:
- PbRestore: optional file filter on restore of directories
- Bug fixes:
- Creation of new tasks for Windows Task Scheduler
- Trigger display in wizard for Windows Task Scheduler
- Synchronization: selection of recycle bin
- Focus on list of directories to be backed up
New in Personal Backup 5.9.4.0 (Apr 30, 2018)
- New interface to the Windows Task Scheduler supporting the extended options available for Windows 7,8 and 10
- On backups into zip archives a maximum file size can be specified. Larger archives will be split into several files of the given size.
- Optional encryption of filenames in zip archives (nor compatible to standard zip format)
- An automatic backup at a specified time of day can be restricted to selected days of the week.
- With backups at logon/logoff on selected days of the week, the option of catching up on missed starts can be disabled.
- On executing external programs the program can optionally prompt for an elevation to full administrator rights (Windows User Access Control).
- The preset value for new tasks concerning compression of files is user adjustable.
- New option to restrict the backup to files with a modification date/time after the time of the last backup of the associated task.
- New FTP option to use the IPv6 protocol
- The new command line option /portable will automatically create an environment to start the program from a USB stick without leaving any traces behind on the PC.
- The new command line option /elevate prompts on program start to run as administrator
- On backups of directories located on an external drive and using the method Separate directories for drives the names of the subdirectories at destination will be built from the volume name (e.g. G:BackupData-1..) instead of the drive identifier (e.g. G:BackupDrvK..) as used for fixed disks
- Global preset for drive identifier
- Sizes in bytes will be displayed using the prefixes recommended by IEEE 1541 (KiB,MiB,GiB)
- New file header for non-compressed encrypted files containing the timestamp (remains compatible to previous versions on decryption).
- Restore of non-compressed encrypted files (.enc) will restore original timestamps (e.g. for backups to FTP servers not supporting MFMT).
- Several enhancements in detail and bug fixes
New in Personal Backup 5.9.3.0 (Mar 16, 2018)
- New:
- Copying of alternate data streams
- Optional deleting of emty directroies after FTP backup
- Changes:
- Enhancement on cleanup: deleting of empty directories
- Bug fixes:
- Task scheduler wizard: Displaying the days of the week for weekly schedules
- (monaday was always checked)
- Setting of file attributes after copying of document summary
- Display error on shifting the vertical splitter
- Alternating schedules: backup on multiple logoffs at the same day
- Alternating schedules: backup 1 x weekly at selected day
- Column header for file types: display of sort sequence was missing
New in Personal Backup 5.9.2.1 (Feb 15, 2018)
- New:
- In the destination directory you can use any new placeholder (% evar (...)%)
- Windows environment variables are inserted
- New wildcards for the target directory:% LDOW% (long name of the weekday)
- and% LMONTH% (month name)
- Changes:
- With automatic backups daily at a time can catch up with
- failed backups are turned off
- Bug fixes:
- Directory selection via secure FTP connection during restore
- Access violation on backup in Zip archive after end status message,
- if the source is the root of a drive and the option
- "delete empty deletion" is not selected (cause: error in
- ExtFileTools: IsOEMStr called by AddDir with empty string)
- If the status window should always be displayed in the foreground, then
- other running applications are no longer deprived of focus
New in Personal Backup 5.9.1.7 (Jan 5, 2018)
- New interface to the Windows Taskscheduler supporting the extended options available for Windows 7,8 and 10
- The automatic backup at a specified time of day can be restricted to selected days of the week.
- On backups at logon/logoff on selected days of the week the of missed starts can be disabled.
- On backups into zip archives a maximum file size can be specified. Larger archives will be split into several files of the given size.
- On executing external programs optional the program can prompt for an elevation to full administrator rights (Windows User Access Control).
- The preset value for new tasks concerning compression of files is user adjustable.
- New option to restrict the backup to files with a modification date/time after the time of the last backup of the associated task.
- New FTP option to use the IPv6 protocol
- The new command line option /portable will automatically create an environment to start the program from a USB stick without leaving any traces behind on the PC.
- The new command line option /elevate prompts on program start to run as adminstrator
- On backups of directories located on an external drive and using the methode Separate directories for drives the names of the subdirectories at destination will be built from the volume name (e.g. G:BackupData-1..) instead of the drive identifier (e.g. G:BackupDrvK..) as used for fixed disks
- Global preset for drive identifier
- Sizes in bytes will be displayed using the prefixes recommended by IEEE 1541 (KiB,MiB,GiB)
- New file header for not compressed encrypted files containing the timestamp (remains compatible to previous versions on decryption).
- Restore of not compressed encrypted files (.enc) will restore original timestamps (e.g. for backups to FTP servers not supporting MFMT).
- Several enhancements in detail and bug fixes
New in Personal Backup 5.9.1.6 (Jan 2, 2018)
- Bug fixes:
- External programs: calling vb scripts
- Restore: on restore of encrypted single zip files using a fixed password
- the first file was not processed correct
- Initialization of the Task Scheduler Interface
New in Personal Backup 5.9.1.5 (Dec 28, 2017)
- Bug fixes:
- External programs: batch files with spaces in path
- Junctions on directory filters
- Task scheduler: Selection of days of the week without Monday and months of the year without January
New in Personal Backup 5.9.1.4 (Dec 23, 2017)
- Changes:
- Update of Task Scheduler View on typing F5
- Bug fixes:
- On sources with UNC paths the destination was faulty
- Problem starting the program under Windows Vista an 7 fixed
- Error in calling "connect" of ITaskService)
- Execution of external programs with cmd.exe
New in Personal Backup 5.9.1.2 (Dec 20, 2017)
- Bug fixes:
- Time limit for scheduled tasks was not applied
- VSS backup did not work
- TbBackup: status windows in mail test delivery caused error
- Initializing Task-Schedulers under Windows XP and Vista
New in Personal Backup 5.9.1.1 (Dec 17, 2017)
- Changes:
- Files created after the VS copy will be excluded from backup to avoid raising an error
- New directories to be backed up are no longer added at the end of the list, but will be inserted at the selected directory
- Bug fixes:
- The wizard for Windows Task Scheduler did not show any scheduled tasks if the path to the program contains spaces
New in Personal Backup 5.9.1.0 (Dec 10, 2017)
- New interface to the Windows Taskscheduler supporting the extended options available for Windows 7,8 and 10
- The automatic backup at a specified time of day can be restricted to selected days of the week.
- On backups at logon/logoff on selected days of the week the of missed starts can be disabled.
- On backups into zip archives a maximum file size can be specified. Larger archives will be split into several files of the given size.
- On executing external programs optional the program can prompt for an elevation to full administrator rights (Windows User Access Control).
- New FTP option to use the IPv6 protocol
- The new command line option /elevate prompts on program start to run as adminstrator
- On backups of directories located on an external drive and using the methode Separate directories for drives the names of the subdirectories at destination will be built from the volume name (e.g. G:BackupData-1..) instead of the drive identifier (e.g. G:BackupDrvK..) as used for fixed disks
- Global preset for drive identifier
- Sizes in bytes will be displayed using the prefixes recommended by IEEE 1541 (KiB,MiB,GiB)
- Several enhancements in detail and bug fixes
New in Personal Backup 5.9.0.3 RC (Sep 19, 2017)
- The pre-release of version 5.9.0 offers the following new functions:
- On backups into zip archives a maximum file size can be specified. Larger archives will be split into several files of the given size.
- The automatic backup at a specified time of day can be restricted to selected days of the week.
- On executing external programs optional the program can prompt for an elevation to full administrator rights (Windows User Access Control).
- The preset value for new tasks concerning compression of files is user adjustable.
- New option to restrict the backup to files with a modification date/time after the time of the last backup of the associated task.
- Global preset for drive identifier
- A new command line option /portable will automatically create an environment to start the program from a USB stick without leaving any traces behind on the PC.
- New file header for not compressed encrypted files containing the timestamp (remains compatible to previous versions on decryption).
- Restore of not compressed encrypted files (.enc) will restore original timestamps (e.g. for backups to FTP servers not supporting MFMT).
New in Personal Backup 5.8.10.6 (Aug 22, 2017)
- Changes:
- Clicking the log status display at the uper right will open the
- associated options dialog
- Update to Indy 10.6.2.5432 (July 2017)
- Bug fixes:
- No copy of VssBackupDoc.xml if VSS failed
- Displaying the subdirectories of the first entry after loading a task
- Selection of subdirectory on restore from FTP
- Restore of encrypted zip files from FTP
New in Personal Backup 5.8.10.5 (Aug 16, 2017)
- Changes:
- Optimization of FTP transfer
- Bug fixes:
- FTP transfer: handling of broken connections and log output
- Synchronization with security copies via FTP
- Displaying the subdirectories after loading a task
New in Personal Backup 5.8.10.3 (Jul 31, 2017)
- Bug fixes:
- Path for cfg file was not set in the right way
- Log output (verbose) if using archive bit
- Test for mail delivery in TbBackup
New in Personal Backup 5.8.10.2 (Jul 28, 2017)
- Changes:
- Improvement of FTP transfer: reconnection after errors
- Log output on running external programs
- Bug fixes:
- Saving of selection of directories to be backed up
- User defined window size of log view was not saved
- File count on moving all types from left to right or reverse
New in Personal Backup 5.8.10.1 (Jul 28, 2017)
- Changes:
- After FTP timeout the program trys to reconnect
- Bug fixes:
- Extraction of files from subdirectories in zip archives (PbRestore)
- Use of placeholders (TbBackup)
- Reading of "profiles.ini" in UTF8 format (TbBackup)
- Selection of directory to be backed up changed back to OnClick (see 5.8.10.0)
- Verfication and deletion with synchronizing of zip files on backup
- compression using gz format
New in Personal Backup 5.8.10.0 (Jul 11, 2017)
- Changes:
- Selecting a directory in the list to be backed up will use OnMouseDown
- instead of OnClick
- New file system: ReFS
- Error log entry on exception during VSS creation
- Check for existing FTP connection changed
- Bug fixes:
- After creating VSS the diverted source directory was not reset
- Changes in VSS:DiscoverDirectlyExcludedComponents
- FTP directory changes
- If an empty task is loaded and at least one automatic task is activated to
- run a backup on selected days of the week, an error message was shown on
- starting the program: "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window"
New in Personal Backup 5.8.9.5 (Jun 12, 2017)
- Changes:
- Enhanced confirmation dialog and more detailed log entries on deleting of root directories
- Adjustable delay time before starting the verification of copied file (see 5.8.6.3)
- Directly editing of filter entries for directories by double click
- The priority of the delivered mail will be set to high on errors during backup
- VSS output: with localization for screen messages, no localization for VSS log
- Enhanced identification of removable drives
- Default compression for new task changed to zip
- New option for ext. programs after backup: no start if no files were copied
- The commandline option "/ini:.." can also specify a path instead of a file. The ini and cfg file then will be stored under this path as Persbackup.ini and Persbackup.cfg.
- PbStarter: New commandline option /ini:...
- Bug fixes:
- Searching for errors in verbose log
- Display of elapsed time (>= 24 hours) in log
- Name of log file with placeholders in PbStarter
- Possible exception in VssUtils for DisplayNameForVolume disabled
- Writing of the "VSS Backup Components Document"
- Selecting of options for junctions
New in Personal Backup 5.8.9.3 (May 15, 2017)
- Changes:
- New placeholder to start external programs (%taskdir% and %progpath%)
- Optimization of FTP backup
- Evaluation of placeholder for destination directory on starting external
- programs
- Bug fixes:
- Synchronization of security copies
- Deleting of read-only directories if option "Retain empty directories"
- is selected
New in Personal Backup 5.8.9.2 (May 1, 2017)
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: FTP security copies with timestamp
- FTP log file entries fixed: USER and PASS are displayed as plain text
- Option /silent disabled for automatic updates because the install dialog is
- not displayed in that case
New in Personal Backup 5.8.9.1 (May 1, 2017)
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: prompts on not available destinations and status window always in front
- Fixed: comparison of files with spaces in paths before restore
- Fixed: verifying of files saved in zip files per subdirectory
- Fixed: security copies with previous version and FTP
- Fixed: synchronization of security copies per FTP
- Fixed: forcing of UTF-8 on FTP
New in Personal Backup 5.8.9.0 (Apr 18, 2017)
- New:
- New command line option /status:(normal,ontop,behind) for status window
- Backup progress and result)
- New entry in context menu for directories to be backed up: remove all
- selected directories that are not available
- Changes:
- Behavior of status window
- Display position of status window when several backups were started via
- PbStarter in parallel
- Schedules registered in Windows task scheduler are displayed in PbPlaner
- Translations updated
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: wait time for external programs was not converted to ms
- several fixes in PbPlaner
- Fixed: verifying of compressed encrypted files
New in Personal Backup 5.8.8.0 (Mar 28, 2017)
- New:
- The command lines for external programs before and after a backup can
- contain Windows environment variables in addition to internal placeholders
- Optional parallel processing of several tasks in PbStarter
- Changes:
- Directory filters may be used for more than one level
- Update of Dutch translation
- Format function replaced by function raising no exceptions
- Playing sound at start of program and end of backup can be disabled
- Status window while scanning directories before backup remains unvisible
- on command line option /quiet
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: log output on cleaning-up root directories
- Fixed: on-top display of status window
- Fixed: display of directories to be saved that are temporary not available
- Fixed: error recognition if a destination file cannot be overwritten
- Fixed: alternating schedules with automatic backups on selected days of
- the week on logon or logoff
- Fixed: no scanning of not selected directories before backup if the option
- "Scan directories" is selected
New in Personal Backup 5.8.7.3 (Mar 10, 2017)
- Changes:
- On mail delivery of logs as attachment always the same mode will be used
- as for the local log file
- Small changes in mail text
- Update to OpenSSL v1.0.2k
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: log view only not modal if main window is visible (see 5.8.7.1)
- Fixed: creation of directories with FTP (modification required for ProFTPD)
New in Personal Backup 5.8.7.2 (Mar 7, 2017)
- New:
- New command line option: /tempdir:<dir> for alternative temp directory
- Changes:
- Changes in the preferences dialog for directories
- After starting a backup manually or by the task scheduler and changing the
- succeeding action from "none" to any other the status window will be closed
- automatically after the predefined delay
- A trailing backslash is always removed from source directories before
- adding them to the list
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: execution of external programs
- Fixed: actions after backup as shutdown or standby in quiet mode
New in Personal Backup 5.8.7.1 (Feb 27, 2017)
- Changes:
- Log view changed (no modal window)
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: display of total number of files (see changes in 5.8.6.3)
- Fixed: starting an automatic task without alternating schedule via the
- context menu in the task bar (see changes in 5.8.7.0)
- Fixed: log output for deleted directories during synchronization
- Fixed: evaluation of path specifications from command line
- Fixed: calculating for alternating schedules aligned on days of the week
New in Personal Backup 5.8.7.0 (Feb 20, 2017)
- New:
- Backups designated for logoff can be started instead with succeeding
- standy via the context menu in the Windows information area
- Optional creation of a Desktop shortcut to start an automatic backup task
- incl. opt. alternating schedules)
- Changes:
- On checking a volume name trailing spaces are ignored
- Time information inserted into verbose log
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: error on calculating the steps for an alternat schedule if the backup
- starts on logoff after midnight
- Fixed: error in TbBackup 1.4 if the task dirctory does not exist yet
- Fixed: error on starting an automatic backup >=10 from the context menu in
- the information area
- Fixed: error after changing the preselected action (e.g. shutdown) during backup
New in Personal Backup 5.8.6.3 (Feb 6, 2017)
- Changes:
- Adjustable wait time for network connections, file and directory operations
- Selected subdirectories that do no longer exist are be removed from task
- After opening a task that is used as automatic task the associated schedule will be displayed
- Changed notification on start if automatisc tasks had errors
- Header in log print out was changed
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: error on detecting junctions if only selected subdirectories are to be backed up
- Fixed: faulty counting of files on backups using archive bit (progress bar)
- Fixed: if an error occured during synchronization subsequent directories were no longer processed
- Fixed: error on synchronization with security copies (deleteing of not empty directories)
- Fixed: error on verifying encrypted files
New in Personal Backup 5.8.6.2 (Jan 19, 2017)
- Changes:
- Enhanced log entries on deleting files
- Update to OpenSSL v1.0.2j
- Mail delivery: searching for SSL libraries changed
- Dialog for Windows task scheduler changed
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: processing of junctions on restore, etc
- Fixed: setting of time of day in file selections
- No creation of pblink files on backups into zip
New in Personal Backup 5.8.6.1 (Jan 9, 2017)
- New:
- Language: Portuguese
- Changes:
- Enhanced progress status in Windows notification area
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: verbose error message during backups into zip files was incomplete
- Fixed: deleting of directories (> 260 characters)
- Fixed on synchronization: displaying the number of deleted files if
- whole subdirectories were affected
- Fixed: error on detecting recursive junctions
- TbBackup: invalid task configuration
- Fixed: evaluating command line option /mode:full
New in Personal Backup 5.8.5.5 (Dec 20, 2016)
- New:
- Language: Portuguese
- Changes:
- Version info in task files always from Personal Backup main program
- Option to select zip compression for single files in wizard
- Optionasl backup up of calendar data in TbBackup
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: restoring of security copies from separate directory
- Fixed: on backups into zip files error were not displayed in log
New in Personal Backup 5.8.5.4 (Dec 8, 2016)
- Changes:
- Additional option in TbBackup for closing the status window
- TbBackup will support volume names for the destination
- New option for junctions during backup (ignore)
- Progress status in Windows notification area as tip at icon
- Bug fixes:
- On new tasks, started via the commandline, the number of files to be
- backed up will be calculated before starting the backup to ensure a correct
- progress display
- Fixed processing of junctions: calling CreateFile in GetFileNameFromSymLink
- and detection of recursions
New in Personal Backup 5.8.5.3 (Nov 28, 2016)
- New:
- Functions to create Desktop shortcuts also for Restore, Cleanup and
- Verify tasks
- Enhanced uninstaller allows deleting of task and log files
- Changes:
- On starting the program the privilege "SeBackupPrivilege" is set
- New option on cleanup: keep empty directories
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: if the option "Lock screen on backup during shutdown" was enabled,
- the shutdown was not performed (see option /end:shutdown)
New in Personal Backup 5.8.5.2 (Nov 13, 2016)
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: format error
- TbBackup will read "profiles.ini" also if not UTF-8
- Fixed: Reading of profile in TbBackup
New in Personal Backup 5.8.5.0 (Nov 10, 2016)
- New:
- New utitlity program for simple backup and restore Thunderbird data
- New function: backup of selected single files
- Changes:
- Adjustable encryption depth also for enc and gze files, file format changed, restore of encrypted files created by former versions is still possible
- Enhancements in wizard to create new backsup tasks
- Commandline option /end:shutdown will shutdown the computer even if no interactive user is logged on (in difference to /end:poweroff)
- New options in Desktop Shortcut dialog: shutdown and hybrid shutdown
- User can select if the status windows will be displayed on top or not
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed: Extracting from zip files in PbRestore
- Fixed: if during an automatic backup (e.g. after logon) a buj file was opened by double click, the program hung up.
- Fixed: Commandline option /prompt for cleanup, verify and restore
- Fixed: using an alternate account for net access
- Fixed: evaluation of command line options /log and /logdir
New in Personal Backup 5.8.4.4 (Sep 28, 2016)
- Changes:
- If on backing up into single zip files the encryption is enabled or disabled
- all files will automatically renewed
- Commandline option /prompt also for Restore, Clean und Verify
- New restor eoption: delete destination directory prior to restoring (only
- used by TbBackup)
- Enhanced error message if update download fails
- Bug fixes:
- Writing of VSS document "VssBackupDoc.xml" into zip file fixed
- Fixes on creating of zip files with verifiction
- Dialog for time comparison settings fixed
- Displaying balloon tooltips in the notification area after autostart fixed
- On restore not selected directories were created anyway
- When starting an automatic task via commandline, the option /end:restart
- was not executed -fixed
- After cancelling the backup the temp. file was not deleted
New in Personal Backup 5.8.4.3 (Aug 23, 2016)
- Changes:
- Status window shows long filenames as hint
- Bug fixes:
- Commandline option "/edit" was not detected on startup
- When starting an automatic task via commandline, the option /end:.. was not executed -fixed
- The option /prompt:.. did not work on automatic tasks via commandline - fixed
- Mail delivery fixed: after failed authentication the connection was not canceled
New in Personal Backup 5.8.4.2 (Aug 10, 2016)
- Bug fixes:
- Compatibility to Windows XP fixed (calling GetProductInfo)
New in Personal Backup 5.8.4.1 (Aug 3, 2016)
- Bug fixes:
- Writing the operating system info to log file fixed (only relevant to sstem with installed service packs)
New in Personal Backup 5.8.4.0 (Aug 3, 2016)
- New:
- New option: directory for security copies in root folder of backup
- Changes:
- System version info in verbose log changed from TOSVersion to GetSysVersionLongString
- Entry in startup menu will be changed obly on closing the main window
- If a control file from the command line was not found, always the desktop window will be opened
- New placeholder for log file (%taskname% = filename of task)
- Option /dir:... can use also task from commandline instead of default task
- On schedules the root destination will not be deleted if empty
- Bug fixes:
- Error on reading log files with incorrect coding (e.g. mixed ANSI/UTF8) resulting in error message "No mapping for the Unicode character..." fixed
- Setting for backup progress was not displayed correctly
New in Personal Backup 5.8.3.1 (Jun 28, 2016)
- Bug fixes:
- Bug on checking for invalid characters in destination path fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.8.3.0 (Jun 27, 2016)
- New:
- Check for integrity of downloaded file on automatic program updates
- Check for invalid characters in destination path
- Changes:
- Enhanced error messages on verification
- Bug fixes:
- Automatic detection of volume names for source directories fixed. Under
- Windows 10 USB sticks are registered as local drive (DRIVE_FIXED instead
- of DRIVE_REMOVABLE).
- Error logging fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.8.2.3 (Jun 23, 2016)
- Bug fixes:
- Copying of permissions of directories with long names added
- Error on creating directories with a length of exact 248 characters fixed
- A full destination medium was not recognized on backup
- Security copies of files without extension were not recognized
New in Personal Backup 5.8.2.2 (Jun 7, 2016)
- Changes:
- Enhanced error message on unexcpected errors during FTP restore
- On copying permissions long file name are allowed
- Bug fixes:
- Error restoring files from zip files per directory fixed
- Error in displaying file list in fixed
- Error counting files fixed if only subdirectories are selected
- Error on FTP directory changes fixed if only some subdirectories were
- selected
New in Personal Backup 5.8.2.1 (May 21, 2016)
- New:
- New options for external programs after backup
- PbStarter can run a file manager under a different account
- User adjustable appearance (see 5.8.2) was deactivated because there are
- problems with automatic backups on logon and shutdown
- Changes:
- Enhancements in PbRestore
- Enhanced notifications after autostert
- Bug fixes:
- Error message on locked directories fixed
- Error on automatic backups on logoff on special days of the week fixed
- If only tasks of this kind were active, the program quitted after
- startup immediately
- Error in PbRestore on restoring files from schedules fixed
- Error detection on writing to file fixed
- Error in context menus of open file dialog fixed (bug in Delphi libraries
- fixed by "VCL Styles Utils")
New in Personal Backup 5.8.2.0 (May 6, 2016)
- New:
- User adjustable appearance
- Changes:
- User selected log directory also for FTP, SMTP and VSS
- Bug fixes:
- Section search in log view fixed
- Error displaying the number of deleted files during synbchronization fixed
- Error sending FTP command OPTS UTF8 fixed
- Errors in PbStarter fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.8.1.0 (Apr 18, 2016)
- New:
- New utility program to start a backup under a different account
- New dialog for setting program preferences
- Reorganization of used own Delphi units
- Presets for marking security copies are user adjustable
- New option for mail attachment: only on errors
- New backup option: no check for volume name of source
- New log option: error summary at the end of the log
- Using security copies, a selectable minimum number of older versions will
- be retained irrespective of file age
- New placeholder %username% for external programs before and after backup
- New command line option: /logdir: for alternative log directory
- The mail address of the recipients may contain the placeholder %username%
- Changes:
- Restore of empty directories
- Scanning of subdirectories optimized
- If a zip file will remain empty after backup, it will not be created in the
- destination
- Position and size of log window is saved
- Progress info during backup was changed
- Enhanced progress indicator
- On deleting at source root and subdirectories can be selected seperately
- Show compress ratio of files in long log
- On restoring via FTP of gz and zip file the original timestamp is restored
- Deleting to recycle bin uses IFileOperation (instead of SHFileOperation)
- Bug fixes:
- Restore of directory timestamps fixed
- Preview for encrypted files on restore fixed
- Fileview in directory select dialog fixed
- Some errors on program settings fixed
- Creating of directories on FTP fixed
- Error restoring and deleting hs-files fixed
- If an option in a task was changed where the destination was specified
- by a volume name and this medium is not mounted, the user will no longer
- be prompted to insert the medium.
- When inserting application name and working directory into the Windows
- Task Scheduler quotes are added if the names contain spaces
- Error setting attributes and timestamp of root directory fixed
- Error on crypting single zip files with 256 bit fixed
- Showing zip archives in the directory selection window disabled
- Restore fixed when files and directories are alternately selected/deselected
- Backup via FTP into separated zip files per subdirectory fixed
- Error with file timestamp for security copies fixed if the archive bit is used
New in Personal Backup 5.7.4.1 (Mar 19, 2016)
- Bug fixes:
- Error fixed when restoring uncompressed files if encryption and plain files
- are mixed
- Similar error in verify fixed
- Synchronizing of selected sub-subfolders fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.8.0.4 RC (Mar 17, 2016)
- New dialog for setting program preferences
- Security copies optional into separate directory and option to automatically deletion if a specific age is reached
- Optional error summary at the end of a long log
New in Personal Backup 5.8.0.1 RC (Feb 19, 2016)
- New option: no check for volume name of source
- New option: error summary at the end of the log
- New option: adjustable minimum number of older versions to be retained
New in Personal Backup 5.8.0.0 RC (Feb 9, 2016)
- The pre-release of version 5.8.0 offers the following new functions
- New dialog for setting program preferences
- Presets for marking security copies are user adjustable
- New option for mail attachment: only on errors
- Restore of empty directories
- In addition, there are many small enhancements and bug fixes.
New in Personal Backup 5.7.4.0 (Jan 8, 2016)
- Changes:
- Renaming of temp. files and opening of files for verification will be tried for several times, to avoid errors if the files are not accessible for a short moment
- Rearrangement of "CoInitializeSecurity" for VSS
- Enhanced system error messages in verbose log for TZip
- Bug fixes:
- Error on renaming a temporary file if in the source directory a file is existing both in normal and in compressed form
- Error in log view fixed if after a system crash zero bytes were written to the log file
- Error on backup using VSS into zip file fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.7.3.8 (Dec 17, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- Error after finishing time scheduled automatic tasks fixed if no task
- is openend in the main window ("Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window")
- The program was closed when double-clicking a task file in the Explorer
- the second time
- Error in FTP backup when saving files into a directory outside the root of the
- logged-on user fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.7.3.7 (Dec 3, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- Deleting of backup security copies during synchronization only if the
- sync security copies option is deactivated
- Setting of option "Allow display to be switched off .." fixed
- Option to delete security copies depending on backup date fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.7.3.6 (Nov 22, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- Mail delivery fixed: wrong attachment after sending a test mail
- Error on word wrapping in printouts for long filenames fixed
- Changes:
- Option to delete security copies depending on backup date activated again
New in Personal Backup 5.7.3.5 (Nov 16, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- Backup notes missing in the mail
- Failed to delete backups
- Fixed bug when replacing a secured directory
- Changes:
- Improvements in the protocol, including additional system error messages in verbose mode
- deleting old backups even if no new source file must be copied
- Delete backup copies in separate directories when you synchronize
New in Personal Backup 5.7.3.4 (Nov 12, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- Error fixed writing the Utf8 bom into the log file on systems that do not use the codepage 1252 (ANSI Latin 1; Western European).
- Deleting the SMTP log after testing did not work
- Some changes on sending a test mail
- Some changes in the verbose log
New in Personal Backup 5.7.3.3 (Nov 4, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- Error on restore via FTP fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.7.3.2 (Oct 30, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- Checking for aborted backups (see 5.7.31) fixed (managing of lock file)
- Error in PbRestore fixed for files not be copied
New in Personal Backup 5.7.3.1 (Oct 30, 2015)
- Changes:
- Before writiing into the temp. directory each time the program will check if this directory is still existing. If not it will be created (safeguard against running cleaner programs)
- Copying of file and directory permissions is done as last action (after attributes and time stamps)
- To differentiate between zip files created during compression of single files and normal zip files, the otherwise unused bit 7 of the "general purpose bit flag" in the local file header is set
- If a backup was aborted due to a system crash, the user will be informed about this on the next start and will have the option to catch up on this backup.
- Deleting into the recycle bin is enabled for all NTFS destinations (until this only for "fixed drives")
- Bug fixes:
- Permissions for the root directories to be backed up were not set
- Several bugs in restore fixed
- The program tried to set attributes for deleted empty directories
New in Personal Backup 5.7.3.0 (Oct 4, 2015)
- Changes:
- In the modes "Full", "Diff." and "Inc." the destination directory will be deleted separately for each directory (see changes in 5.6.0) because the whole backup was deleted even if a source path was not available. The program checks for overlapping directories if they are arranged in an order with parent directories at first
- Clicking on one of the selected directories to be backed up will start the update of the type lists in an own thread
- The dialog to open a task will always start in the directory of the last opened task. To open from the default task directory an additional menu item was added.
- Restore status display changed
- Preview function in PbRestore
- Bug fixes:
- Selection of days of the week for automatic backup fixed (sometimes Mo was added by the program)
- Directories containing no files but subdirectories could not be deleted
- Already compressed files were not packed properly into encrypted single zip files
New in Personal Backup 5.7.2.1 (Sep 15, 2015)
- Changes:
- Improved restoring of security copies
- Log item for backup mode added
- Time optimization in the progress display
- Optional selectable temporary directory
- The directories to be backed up are updated only after double click
- Extended log messages on errors
- Bug fixes:
- Error on weekly schedules fixed
- Junction files (.pblink) were deleted on synchronization
- Error on wait time and multiple FTP connection attempts fixed
- Warning message on setting FTP timestamps fixed
- An omitted backup at logoff on selected days of the week was not catched up
- when the program window was opened after next start because the time
- schedule was new calculated on minimizing the window
- On automatic backups the file counters were not updated
- Detection of files > 4GB on FAT32 and backup of files where only the
- attributes were changed fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.7.1.4 (Jul 29, 2015)
- Changes:
- Adaptation of "DPI awareness" (e.g. on 4k screens since Windows 7)
- Bug fixes:
- Bug in comparison of date in PbRestore when restoring alternating schedules
- fixed
- Error in task schedule wizard for monthly backups fixed
- Timeout error on verifying large files fixed
- Verify error on verifying large single zip files fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.7.1.3 (Jul 23, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- When starting a backup via the context menu in the system tray the wrong
- task was started
- Error in total volume progress for total size of zero fixed (results in
- "division by zero" and read error)
- Error on synchronizing security copies fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.7.1.2 (Jul 23, 2015)
- Changes:
- Display of dates for next backup changed
- Bug fixes:
- Error on saving the settings for backup copies during synchr. fixed
- Entries for automatic task in ini file fixed
- Error on catching up a full backup in schedule with day of the week and
- 7 daily cycle fixed
- Error on synchronizing of subdirectories fixed
- Error during synchronization in mode "Selected files, delete other" fixed
- Deleting of directories into recycle bin always generated an error
New in Personal Backup 5.7.1.1 (Jul 1, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- File extension of task file in TaskSchedDlg fixed
- Restore of zip files fixed
- Error on number input fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.7.1.0 (Jun 24, 2015)
- New:
- New task option: scan directories before backup to ensure a reliable
- toal progress bar.
- New global option: lock the computer before backup is started on logoff/shutdown
- Automatic deletion of older log files
- Language: French
- Also includes changes in the previous RC version
- Changes:
- Status window saves position for two monitors
- Advanced settings for FTP connection
- Enhanced copy routines
- Optional disabling of write cache
- gz/gze and enc files can be associated with PbRestore
- No synchronization allowed with deleteing of file at source
- Extended error messages in verbose log during restore
- Progress bar will show either the amount of copied bytes or the number of
- copied files
- Settings for security copies redesigned
- Selection for security copies in Restore, Verify und Cleanup changed
- Redesign of units and components
- Error message if SSL ist not avaible for mail delivery
- Enhanced check if the program can write to the destination path
- Update to OpenSSL v1.0.2c
- Bug fixes:
- Bug on restoring from zip files fixed
- Error displaying test mail delivery status fixed
- Deleting of file at source did not work for pathlength>Max_Path
- Copy of file details fixed
- On backups from net drives a missing connection will be renewed automatically
- Using the option /repl:.. with VSS (see 5.6.0), the archive bit of the
- source file was not resetted in full or incr. mode
- Copying of locked files fixed
- Enabling of synchronization fixed
- Disabling of compression for zip files fixed
- Backup and full destination error fixed
- Restore of junctions fixed
- After cancelling a directory scan the previous values were not recovered
- Restore and Verify from zip files with path containing a volume name fixed
- Error creating a desktop shortcut containing a period in the name fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.7.0.0 RC (Mar 23, 2015)
- The following new functions are available:
- Use of volume shadow copies (VSS) - requires administrator privilege
- Backup of single files optionally as zip files (also on FTP)
- Exceptions for file types not be compressed also for zip files
- Security copies optional into separate directory
- New command line option /end:idleoff: as /end:poweroff, but the system will only be shut down if no interactive user is logged on
New in Personal Backup 5.6.8.2 (Mar 6, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- Copying of locked files fixed
- Enabling of synchronization fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.6.7.3 (Mar 4, 2015)
- Changes:
- Enhanced copy routines
- Optional disabling of write cache
- gz/gze and enc files can be associated with PbRestore
- No synchronization allowed if deleting of files at source is enabled
- Extendend error messages in verbose log during restore
- Bug fixes:
- Deleting of files at source did not work for pathlength>Max_Path
- Copy of file details fixed
- On backups from net drives a missing connection will be renewed automatically
- Using the option /repl:.. with VSS (see 5.6.0), the archive bit of the
- source file was not resetted in full or incr. mode
New in Personal Backup 5.6.7.2 (Feb 16, 2015)
- Changes:
- Status window saves position for two monitors
- Advanced settings for FTP connection
- Bug fixes:
- Bug on restoring from zip files fixed
- Error displaying test mail delivery status fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.6.7.0 (Feb 9, 2015)
- New:
- New placeholder for destination directory: n alternating days, weeks or months
- Bug fixes:
- Bug on saving the settings for zip encryption fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.6.6.0 (Jan 26, 2015)
- New:
- gz/gze files can be associated with PbRestore
- Additional button in Restore, Cleanup and Verify dialog to save the task
- immediately
- Changes:
- Enhanced error messages in verbose log for system errors
- Setting of timestamps, etc. is done after renaming the temp. copy
- Dialog for log settings changed
- Additional save buttons in dialogs for Restore, Cleanup and Verify
- On backups into zip files as part of an alternating schedule the
- destination director< will not be erased
- Bug fixes:
- Error message fixed when renaming of temp file failed
- Bug in Delphi library Vcl.Forms fixed: Switching the desktop from one to two
- monitors and reverse was not detected on runtime. Message processing for
- WM_DISPLAYCHANGE inserted to TScreen
- Function "Replace folder" fixed (see 5.6.5.0)
- A lot of fine tuning (visual, tab orders, etc.)
- Error on synchronizing of directories with security copies fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.6.5.0 (Jan 12, 2015)
- New:
- Replacement of a directory to be saved using the context menu, e.g. if the volume name of an external drive was changed
- Bug fixes:
- The position of the program window was not saved before maximizing
- Error of filter settings for filename suffixes in Restore, Cleanup and Verify fixed
- Error on security copies for synchronization od directories fixed if no prefix was specified
- Error loading restore tasks from zip files fixed
- Error on replacing placeholder %status% when executing an ext. program fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.6.4.0 (Dec 15, 2014)
- Changes:
- Small changes in the password dialog
- Fixed-term comparison error in the weekly change plans
- Prefix for protocol as mail attachment can be adjusted by the user
- New placeholders for external programs: Password query
- Changed dialog for restoring in the original directory
- Bug fixes:
- Correction when saving not automatic backups on
- more existing orders refer
- Correction in evaluating an ini path with wildcards from the command line
- for PersBackup.cfg file
- Fixed a bug in the display for the restore selection when multiple
- Root directories exist
New in Personal Backup 5.6.3.1 (Nov 17, 2014)
- Bug fixes:
- Plugged-in USB media were not detected
New in Personal Backup 5.6.3.0 (Nov 15, 2014)
- New:
- The entry in the folder context menu for "one-click backup" can be switched
- on and off for the current user using the program's main menu.
- Changes:
- Enhanced error messages in log if writing to destination was impossible
- The name of an automatic task can be changed by the user
- Bug fixes:
- For destinations on network servers the option "copy permissions" was
- disabled
- Processing security copies the filename could not contain the "#" sign.
- Error during backing up into zip file with schedule fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.6.2.0 (Oct 29, 2014)
- New:
- Optionally, a "one-click backup" of a directory can be started by right-clicking
- this directory in the Windows Explorer using the settings from a selectable
- default backup task.
- Program icons in different sizes
- Changes:
- If in the progress dialog of a backup one of the options "Logoff" or "Shutdown"
- is selected, thereafter also the scheduled automatic backups on logoff
- are executed
- Task directory either "default" or "selection"
- Bug fixes:
- Deleting of destination directory on "full, diff., incr." modes fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.6.1.0 (Oct 14, 2014)
- Changes:
- Updated help files
- Bug fixes:
- Placeholder for status in Restore, Cleanup and Verify fixed
- Display of total progress fixed if directories are deselected
- AppId in InnoSetup script fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.6.0.0 (Oct 10, 2014)
- New:
- Desktop link for more than one backup task
- New command line option /repl:= for integration in the program
- "Volume Shadow Copy Simple Client"
- Optionally Windows can switch off the display during backup
- Changes:
- Optimized copy process in single file mode (during file copy the directory
- already will be scanned for other files to be backed up)
- Notes on errors during synchronization in mail and log status
- When starting a task via Windows scheduled tasks now optional the
- log settings from the task can be taken (before only individual
- settings were possible)
- Moving the mouse over the list of directories to be saved, will display
- corresponding file count and total number of bytes
- In the modes "Full", "Diff." and "Inc." the destination directory will
- already be deleted before starting the whole backup and not before copying
- the single directories -> Fixes a problem with overlapping directories
- Bug fixes:
- Error on excluding security copies of files without extension in Restore,
- CleanUp and Verify fixed
- Enhanced error checking
- On schedules sometimes no timestamp file $TimeStamp.pbu was written at
- destination
- Positions of windows for backup and status after right click on the
- icon in the notification area fixed (if taskbar at top or left)
- In mail subject for restore, cleanup and verify the placeholder %taskname%
- was not replaced
- Settings for FTP timeout and connection retries were not saved on Restore,
- Cleanup and Verify
New in Personal Backup 5.5.10.0 (Sep 17, 2014)
- New:
- Placeholder for hour, minute and name of source volume
- Bug fixes:
- Update of Spanish translation
- Setting of mode for mail delivery fixed
- Error task scheduler wizard fixed (advanced settings on daily)
- Error creating a directory in destination was not displayed as error
- in status window
New in Personal Backup 5.5.9.0 (Jul 24, 2014)
- New:
- Language: Spanish
- Bug fixes:
- Error on checking the availability of network directories
- Error message on external programs fixed
- Error fixed on mail delivery (restore and clean up): if no matching files
- were found, an error was generated
- Changes:
- Small changes in mail test
New in Personal Backup 5.5.8.0 (Jul 14, 2014)
- Bug fixes:
- The program sometimes hangs up after start (e.g. in PE environments) if the
- schedule service is not running and cannot be started
- Bug fix: Because this servive should run normally by default, the program
- does not try to start it and disables all task scgeduleer functions
- On restore the creationtime of directories was not copied
- Error on backup to network directories using an alternate use fixed
- Error of placeholder for status in mal subject fixed
- Changes:
- Enhanced test function for mail delivery with traffic log
- New placeholder for number of day of week (Monday = 1)
- Hungarian help files
New in Personal Backup 5.5.7.0 (Jul 14, 2014)
- Bug fixes:
- Deleting of empty root directory fixed
- After deleting files the notification mail was sent twice
- Error on backup with previous synchronization and no subdirectories
- into an empty diretory fixed
- Changes:
- Automatic detection of key length on restore from encrypted zip files
- Small corrections of the program desktop
New in Personal Backup 5.5.6.0 (Apr 14, 2014)
- New:
- Optional Protocol to the FTP communication to facilitate troubleshooting
- with problems
- Changes:
- Updated the OpenSSL components to version 1.0.1g to close
- the " Heartbleed " vulnerability
- For long FTP transfers a NOOP every 5 min is sent to the control channel
- to keep active and to prevent the connection on the server side
- is terminated.
- Error message in the log when deleting the Stammverz . fails via FTP
- Improved error messages in verbose log when synchronizing
- Improved connection test to network resources
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug when running a weekly change plan -
- When starting with option / ini: .. is not created subfolder in AppData
- Correction for directory Jump to FTP servers that after the MKD
- full path return (see also verse 5.5.2) , if at the same
- the option " all in lower / upper case " was chosen
- Correction for a backup mode " Everything is new , .. " Strato FTP servers
- Interception of possible conversion errors at "SITE ZONE" in IdFtp
New in Personal Backup 5.5.5.0 (Mar 13, 2014)
- New:
- Button in task wizard to insert the volume name of a removable medium
- Maximum age of security copies (nut FTP)
- Changes:
- Additional button for Program Data in Wizard
- FTPS also without passive mode
- Reading FTP file list optimized
- Additional check before synchronizing if source directory is accessible
- FTPS: either Explicit SSL/TLS (If available) or Implicit SSL/TLS (Always)
- Additional button to set the log file name to default
- Enhanced FTP error message in log
- Adjustable number of connection FTP attempts
- Enhanced error messages on sending mails
- Mail delivery using SASL authentication
- Behaviour of checkbox for notification area changed
- Additional information during restore in verbose log
- Bug fixes:
- On automatic tasks the time sometimes was reset to default
- Enhanced handling of breaked connections on secure FTP transfers
- Error on verifying enc files without decryption fixed
- Fixed Delphi function "DirectoryExists" will acknowledge ERROR_BAD_NET_NAME
- Error writing size of gz files >4GB via FTP fixed
- Computing of copy speed fixed
- Errors in convert tables ANSI OEM (zip) fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.5.4.0 (Feb 1, 2014)
- New:
- File filter can be copied from previous directory entry
- New file selection: older than x days
- Changes:
- New default types of files not to be compressed will be merged automatically
- Time-compare dialog changed
- Mor user-friendly support of placeholders for external programs
- Adjustable number of allowed timeouts
- Bug fixes:
- Display of text for file security fixed
- Invalid error message on backup as zip via FTP removed
- Restore from zip files did not work
- Deleting of files at source after copy fixed
- Correction on checking different attributes
New in Personal Backup 5.5.3.0 (Jan 10, 2014)
- New:
- Language: Dutch
- Changes:
- Distinguished error message on renaming temporary copied files
- Changes setting attributes at destination
- Files >4GB will be accepted for LTFS file systems
- Extended status message at end of backup
- Dutch language added
- Bug fixes:
- On synchronisation via FTP the files from directories to be deleted were
- counted twice
- If on backups with enabled encryption, no password was specified,
- synchronisation failed on some file types
- The FTP password was stored in backup task even if not specified
- as permanently
- Error message fixed on connection failure when copying of zip file via FTP
- is started
- Error synchronizing gz files fixed
- Root directory was not created on alternating schedules via FTP
New in Personal Backup 5.5.2.2 (Jan 10, 2014)
- Changes:
- With command line option /showlog optionally a log filename can be specified.
- Files with changed attribute were always be copied. From now changed
- attributes (excewpt the archive bit) are directly change at the destination
- without copying the file.
- When deleting a directory from a backup task, optionally also the appropriate
- destination directory can be deleted.
- Bug fixes:
- On backups with resetting the archive bit, a new file copy was made because
- the attributes had changed (refer to the above not under changes).
New in Personal Backup 5.5.2.1 (Dec 17, 2013)
- Bug fixes:
- Error on some servers creating the base FTP directory fixed
- Error on selecting root directories for deleting fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.5.2.0 (Dec 16, 2013)
- Changes:
- If main window is reopened after minimizing, the task will be reloaded.
- So prior changes, not saved before, will be canceled.
- Additional error messages in log if temp. files could not be renamed
- Deleteing of directories using the context menu of the directory
- select dialog enhanced
- Error message if a desktop link could not be created
- The FTP command MKD will accept also the reply code 200
- Bug fixes:
- Files with changed attributes now will be copied.
- Archive attribute was always set at destination
- During synchronization security copies moved to a subdirectory were
- deleted
- Error on creating references to junctions fixed
- Wrong error message on renaming security copies fixed
- Processing of relative FTP paths after PWD fixed
- Command lines for external programs are no longer displayed in log and
- mail delivery if they are stored encrypted in task file
- Two-line status message on backups with synchronization fixed
- Error on synchronizing gz files via FTP fixed
- After automatic backups the user was asked for a prompt not only on
- errors buts also on warnings
New in Personal Backup 5.5.1.0 (Dec 16, 2013)
- Changes:
- Default value for copy timeout increased to 60s
- Junctions will be always saved as "pblink file"
- Junctions are displayed in restore dialog
- Enhanced error handling on FTP restore
- Enhanced settings for daily scheduled tasks
- Bug fixes:
- Rounding error with backups on selected day of week fixed
- Restoring of junctions fixed
- Selection of directory on FTP restore (passive mode) fixed
- Check for existing FTP connection during Restore and Verify inserted
- Search for ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll for mail delivery fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.5.0.1 (Oct 13, 2013)
- Copying of file permissions (only NTFS and network)
- Restore of file permissions (only NTFS and network) and file details (only NTFS)
- New mode for synchronization: synchronize selected files, delete all other (additional to retain all other)
- Optional password protection for overwriting of task file
- New commandline option (/reset) to reset the main window position and to avoid from loading of last task file
- Backup and restore of junctions (only NTFS)
- New languages: Hungarian and Italian
- Several bug-fixes and enhancements
New in Personal Backup 5.5.0.0 (Sep 27, 2013)
- Synchronization optionally before or after backup
- The initial backups in alternating schedules can use the mode Copy instead of Full (new)
- Function to delete old log files
- New display for file types with sorting by name, count or size
- To reduce the traffic on the download server, checking for program updates is made only biweekly.
- Exclude selectable directories temporarily from backup
- Some new placeholders for destination path and external programs
- New mail delivery settings
- New option for deletion of security copies older than a given time
- New function in PbRestore to restore files from alternating schedules
- Note for user of version 5.4.7.1: Due to technical problems with the download server the checking for program updates is disabled in this version. User having installed this version, must start a manual update to a following version in which this problem was fixed.
- Several bug-fixes and enhancements
New in Personal Backup 5.4.9.3 RC (Aug 19, 2013)
- Copying of file permissions (only NTFS and network)
- Restore of file permissions (only NTFS and network) and file details (only NTFS)
- New mode for synchronization: synchronize selected files, delete all other (additional to "retain all other")
- Optional password protection for overwriting of task file
- New commandline option (/reset) to reset the main window position and to avoid from loading of last task file
- New languages: Hungarian and Italian
New in Personal Backup 5.4.8.2 (Jul 30, 2013)
- Fixed error when restoring uncompressed files: Writing Guns
- Files could not be overwritten
- It was not possible to turn on compression for all types
New in Personal Backup 5.4.8.0 (Jul 10, 2013)
- Bug fixes:
- Setting for automatic program updates was not displayed in menu
- Volume names were not detected when starting a restore, verify or cleanup
- task from the command line
- Catch up a full backup in weekly alternating schedules
- Speed optimization with Restore and Verify
- Weekly backups fixed
- Changes:
- When starting from a removable drive (e.g. USB stick), not only the ini file
- and the log files are written automatically to the program directory on
- this drive (see 5.0.2.1) but also the file PersBackup.cfg
- New:
- Additional options to set process priority and processor load during
- file copying
New in Personal Backup 5.4.7.1 (Jun 21, 2013)
- Bug fixes:
- Wait Forth Read altered to reduce excessive CPU load
New in Personal Backup 5.4.6.2 (Jun 20, 2013)
- Bug fixes:
- Reduced height window was not saved
- Synchronization with file filter fixed
- When changing then synchronization mode the change flag was not set
- With backups into zip files the option "Reset archive bit" was not saved
- Catching up full backups in alternating schedules fixed
- FTP backup fixed when only deeper subdirectories are to be copied
- Changes:
- HeloName has fixed vale "PersonalBackup" (Is set otherwise by Indy to computername which gives an error on exchange server if containing umlauts)
- Additional entries in extended log on synchronisation via FTP
New in Personal Backup 5.4.6.0 (May 15, 2013)
- Bug fixes:
- Access violation error after file preview via context menu fixed
- Moving security copis to subdirectory fixed
- Automatic backup on weekly backups fixed
- Changes:
- SMTP timeout increased to 30 s
- Additional entry in extended log before sending a mail
- New:
- After backup on shutdown an optional delay may be inserted
- Synchronization can be done alternatively before or after backup
New in Personal Backup 5.4.5.0 (Apr 23, 2013)
- The initial backups in alternating schedules can use the mode Copy instead of Full (new)
- Function to delete old log files
- New display for file types with sorting by name, count or size
- To increase the security, synchronization is made after backup
New in Personal Backup 5.4.4.0 (Mar 16, 2013)
- Bug fixes:
- Second bug fix for checking if a net drive or net resource is connected
- see 5.4.3.1 and 5.4.2.6)
- Display of background in type selection lists fixed
- 100% display in update dialog fixed
- Mail delivery was signalled even if no recipient was selected to receive
- a mail after a backup without errors
- Security copies starting with �ate% were not recognized for deleting
- Some other bug fixes for deleting of security copies
- Bug fixes in PbPlaner
- Restoring of directories with PbRestore fixed
- Error creating security copies during backup fixed (backslash in file
- path was missing)
- Changes:
- When deleteting security copies the option "File age" is disabled if the
- option "Age of security copies" is selected.
- Synchronizing is done after backup (not before)
- Settings for selection of security copies changed for Restore, Verify and
- Cleanup
- Enhanced file type view with sorting according to name, count and size
- New shortcut "Esc" to minimize if automatic tasks are active
- Display progress when sending mail
New in Personal Backup 5.4.3.1 (Feb 21, 2013)
- Bug fixes:
- Bug on security copies with placeholders for date or time fixed
- Activecontrol is set to default on deactivate to prevent from
- popping up confirmation dialogs on reactivation
- Deleting of directories to recycle bin did not work properly
- Display error in status window with Windows 8 fixed
- Detection of already connected net drives fixed (see 5.4.2.6)
- Startup entry is adjusted when changing between 32 and 64 bit version
New in Personal Backup 5.4.3.0 (Feb 15, 2013)
- Changes:
- An instance started with /force has its own mutex and will not be stopped when opening the program manually
- If the instance was started with /force, the opening of the program using the symbol in the Windows notification area is disabled
- Bug fixes:
- Restoring the minimized application fixed
- Bug when deleteing non existing tasks from the history lists fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.4.2.6 RC (Feb 7, 2013)
- New:
- Windows 7 libraries can be added directly to the backup task
- Bug fixes:
- Confirmation on changes of automatic backups fixed
- The result of checking a not available network path with DirectoryExists
- is erraneous. Inserted an extra check for net drives and shares.
- Exception on not-defined default printer is handled (enhancement)
New in Personal Backup 5.4.2.5 RC (Feb 2, 2013)
- Furthermore this release for the first time offers a 64-bit variant.
New in Personal Backup 5.4.2.4 (Jan 18, 2013)
- Bug fixes:
- Error on sending mail with log fixed
- The desktop window was not shown when a task was opened for editing by
- double-clicking in the Explorer and the program was running in background.
New in Personal Backup 5.4.2.3 (Jan 16, 2013)
- Changes:
- Minor changes in log output (show attributes on errors)
- A remote connection with an alternative account will be cancelled
- after backup
- Clearing the readonly bit for deleting files changed
- No restart after update
- New command line option for PbPlaner (/ini:..)
- Backup security copies optional to subdirectory
- Log file is written as UTF-8 textfile as in 5.3 (see changes in 5.4.0.0)
- Bug fixes:
- Delay loop in WaitForThread optimized
- Copying of file infos is only allowed with no compression and no encryption
- After canceling a backup, an invalid number of files was displayed
- Elapsed time can be longer than 24 hours
- Synchronizing of gz files fixed if compression is off
New in Personal Backup 5.4.2.2 (Dec 21, 2012)
- Changes:
- Modifications for new system routines (FileExists, etc.) with FollowLink
- Error message in log changed for broken FTP connection
- Bug fixes:
- Small fixes in symbolic links
- Sorting by date in file preview for Restore fixed
- Backup on logoff could not be cancelled
- Counter to repeat FTP copies after broken connection was not reset to
New in Personal Backup 5.4.2.1 (Dec 4, 2012)
- Bug fixes:
- Date of last change were erraneous for $timestamp and root directory
- Bug during synchronization of files not to be compressed fixed
- Elapsed time was not updated during synchronization
New in Personal Backup 5.4.2.0 (Nov 30, 2012)
- Changes:
- Timestamp file in the destination folder can optionally be written
- also at backup modes other than in schedules
- Automatic backups will no more be removed if the task file could not be found
- Error message in log if the task file could not be found
- Added some common file types to the list "not to be compressed"
- The timestamp of the root directory of the backup is set to the start time
- of the backup
- Bug fixes:
- Mail delivery in case of erros fixed
- IMWndProc fixed
- When changing to encryption, existing gz files were not deleted
- Synchronisation fixed
- Readonly files were not be deleted
- Error writing log file fixed (zero byte)
New in Personal Backup 5.4.1.0 (Nov 15, 2012)
- Changes:
- Added in PbRestore: Restore of directory trees in zip files
- After replacing an automatic the settings will be retained
- Bug fixes:
- Log off/Shut down/Standby were not performed with tasks opened via
- double-clicking the file
- Thread error (memory leak) in ShellCtrls fixed
- Archive bits of the source directories were not reset properly (if this
- option was selected)
- After scanning a directory sometimes the NoDrop cursor was displayed
- Changes in ShellCtrls: a refresh required a nearly endless time with large
- directories
- Several small bugs in cleanup log fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.4.0.2 RC (Nov 3, 2012)
- Exclude selectable directories temporarily from backup
- Some new placeholders for destination path and external programs
- New mail delivery settings
- New option for deletion of security copies older than a given time
- New function in PbRestore to restore files from alternating schedules
- Several bug-fixes and enhancements
New in Personal Backup 5.4.0.1 RC (Oct 30, 2012)
- Exclude selectable directories temporarily from backup
- Some new placeholders for destination path and external programs
- New mail delivery settings
- New option for deletion of security copies older than a given time
- New function in PbRestore to restore files from alternating schedules
- Several bug-fixes and enhancements
New in Personal Backup 5.3.2.0 (Sep 4, 2012)
- Up to 16 automatic tasks
- Optional separate log for each task
- Balloon tips and tooltips can be disabled
- Several bug-fixes and enhancements
New in Personal Backup 5.3.1.2 (Jul 12, 2012)
- Changes:
- Small visual changes
- Warning message when you turn one of the modes "April", "Differential" or
- "Incremental".
- Bug fixes:
- If an invalid date was (back update) in the ini file
- Value can not be accepted.
- If at first automatic backups of a contract with "unsubscribe" and then
- an order to "register" was entered, the program was after the
- Startup closed and placed in the taskbar.
- Correction of the specification of time stamps in the extra-long protocol
- Correction in minimizing the backup window
- Corrections in the log viewer, unless a specific protocol
- Order is given.
- Error in status (line 2) fixed
New in Personal Backup 5.3.1.1 (Jun 7, 2012)
- Small changes in the restore log
- Clicking on the icon in the taskbar, the notification window always on the main monitor, now on the current
- Minor text corrections
- Note in the long protocol, if a file has been overwritten
- Adjustable timeout for the FTP connection (default = 60)
- Error corrections: 29/05/2012
- PbRestore was able to save no-GZE Datzeien (see also v. 5.2.0)
- Correction of the position of the checkbox "Repeat" in the status window
New in Personal Backup 5.3.1.0 (May 8, 2012)
- Bug fixes:
- After minimizing the window could not be opened.
- Fixed error when closing a subtree with subdirectories
- had an effect only when the item was in the front row of the display)
- When backing up via FTP, a set speed limit
- erroneously in the local preprocessing (compression, encryption)
- used.
- Error Log (see 5.3.0.2) were not stored in the INI file
- and therefore the automatic startup does not appear.
- Changes:
- When selecting "only those marked" subdirectories are the files
- of the home directory is no longer assured
- Changed position of the repeat indicator in the status window
- Ext timeout when running. Programs can optionally
- are ignored.
- New:
- Can use the lists of the last orders are bearbeiet
- When Synchro kidney backups of the following types are possible:
- Suffix = -.> Filename Ext.
- Suffix = + -> filename.ext .
- Select "Check" to backup also backup via FTP
New in Personal Backup 5.3.0.4 (Apr 20, 2012)
- Changes:
- When backing up in zip files, the archive bit to be reset, and
- if it is not intended to be used (similar to "everything" in a single file).
- Adaptation of entries in the list of backup directory to
- different font sizes.
- Adaptation of Dialogues with larger fonts
- Bug fixes:
- When deleting a directory, this was during the Synchonisierens
- not shown in the status display.
- The Wizard AppData was not determined correctly.
New in Personal Backup 5.3.0.3 (Apr 20, 2012)
- Bug fixes:
- Failed to copy temp. Zip file via FTP corrected
- Corrections in the display name of the Zip
- Fixed FTP to clean up - you switch
New in Personal Backup 5.3.0.2 (Apr 20, 2012)
- New:
- If a backup was faulty when you log out, the next automatic
- Start an optional hint message
- Changes:
- Display name for the ZIP file from dmZipRoot like the Wizard
- Option in the status window to repeat the backup
- In the History list for the jobs relative paths are stored,
- if the orders are in the default directory.
- When backing up in zip files via FTP before copying the temporary
- In the target file does not overwrite existing archives at once to a
- Errors or demolition can be restored to.
- Error corrections:
- When saving mode of the cleanup job was always "Delete Files"
- deferred.
- Correction while waiting for external programs
- The command line option "/ taskdir" was not evaluated correctly (eg when
- Starting from a USB stick)
New in Personal Backup 5.3.0.1 (Apr 20, 2012)
- Fixed error when creating automatic orders
- The Wizard only 8 orders were automatically displayed for selection.
New in Personal Backup 5.3 (Apr 20, 2012)
- Up to 16 automatic tasks
- Optional separate log for each task
- Balloon tips and tooltips can be disabled
- Several bug-fixes and enhancements
New in Personal Backup 5.2 (Apr 20, 2012)
- Program function for verification of backed-up files
- Junctions (hard links for directories) can optionally be evaluated during backup to save disk space
- Reduction in Windows resources usage (this allows a backup to be initiated using a shutdown script)
New in Personal Backup 5.1 (Apr 20, 2012)
- New clearer desktop design for task settings
- Extensive revision of German and English texts
- Several bug-fixes (eg. synchronizing files, FTP transfer)