January 22nd, 2011· Bugfix: The option "Copy NTFS permissions list of files and folders" can now be used again. This option was broken in V3.6.3.
· The order of the context menu entries of a backup job has been aligned to those of Windows.
January 22nd, 2011· Added address bar to "Select files" dialog
· The log view supports multiselection now.
· Bugfix: Incremental Backup no longer copies files further on from revX to revY if they were deleted in the source.
· The support for Windows 2000 has been dropped because Microsoft dropped it in July 2010.
· A few minor fixes and improvements have been incorporated.
May 18th, 2010· Bugfix: Incremental Backup didn't work properly, when files from the selection list were directly under c:\ or d:\ etc.
· Bugfix: The portable installation works again.
· Improvement: The option "Consider files as equal with time difference that is at most" allows values bigger than 60 sec.
· Improvement: One can use environment variables in the destination path. Example c:\Úte% will expand to c:\2010-04-14.
· Some minor improvements and bugfixes have been incorporated.
March 26th, 2010· Bugfix: Zip restore works faster and some minor problems were fixed.
· Bugfix: Some visualization errors in the progress dialog were fixed.
· Bugfix: Sometimes the GUI was not drawn properly, when one restored SmartBackup from System-Tray.
· Bugfix: Some problems when reading/writing to database files were fixed.
· Bugfix: Some minor improvements and bug-fixes have been incorporated.
July 1st, 2009· Bugfix: On some English systems German messages were shown.
· Bugfix: Under certain circumstances performing a backup with activated setting "Copy NTFS permission list for every file" lead to an error message.
· Some minor improvements and bug-fixes have been incorporated.
July 1st, 2009· New: A backup of files that are in use is now supported under Windows Vista (Administrator privileges are required).
· Bugfix: The date of files and folders is now correctly backed up when destination is a ZIP-archive.
· Bugfix: Filesystem backups can be performed to a CD/DVD-drive again, if the system supports packet writing.
· Some minor improvements and bug-fixes have been incorporated.
April 21st, 2009· New: You can run a sequence via command line (see help for further information).
· Bugfix: "Power off", "Reboot" and "Log off" now takes place without delay after finishing a sequence under Windows Vista.
· Some improvements and bug-fixes have been incorporated.
Known issues:
· Performing a backup of files that are currently in use does not work correctly on some Windows Vista systems.
· Performing a backup to CD/DVD does not work correctly with restricted user accounts under Windows XP and Vista.
March 13th, 2009· New: Now you can create sequences (sets of backups) which will automatically backup/restore all included backups when you backup/restore the sequence (for more information see help-file).
· New: NTFS-Compression of files is now backed up.
· New: The progress dialog of backups has been redesigned.
· Bugfix: If a file that has to be backed up already exists in the destination directory, SmartBackup now renames the old version of this file before backing up the new version. This prevents deletion of the file in case of abortion of the backup or failure of the copy-progress.
· Bugfix: If a folder cannot be deleted while performing a synchronization, the log-entry now shows the path to the folder explicitly.
· Some improvements and bug-fixes have been incorporated.
Known issues:
· Performing a backup of files that are currently in use does not work correctly on some Windows Vista systems.
· Performing a backup to CD/DVD does not work correctly with restricted user accounts under Windows XP and Vista.
September 4th, 2008· New backup-specific option "Follow Mount Points and External Symbolic Links": This indicates whether SmartBackup has to follow reparse points under Windows XP and newer. We recommend to keep this option turned off, especially under Windows Vista which uses symbolic links intensively.
· If you hit the exit button of SmartBackup while there are still backups in progress of being refreshed now a dialog is shown which asks you to confirm the abortion of the backups.
· Some minor improvements and bug-fixes have been incorporated.
· Performing a backup of files that are in use does not work correctly on some Windows Vista systems.
· Performing a backup to CD/DVD does not work correctly with restricted user accounts under Windows XP and Vista.
November 1st, 2007· You can now copy the log to the clipboard in order to paste the information into another document, e.g. an e-mail.
· Performance of showing large log files has been increased.
· Added a context menu to the backup job selection.
· Errors that occur during backup are logged to the Windows event log.
October 16th, 2007· SmartBackup can ask before deleting files.
· You can allow SmartBackup to overwrite read-only files.
· Performance of storing synchronization status has been increased.
· Bugfix: A software component prevented Windows from shutting down.
June 1st, 2007· SmartBackup can backup to CD and DVD.
· Files that cannot be copied because they are already in use can be copied anyway.
· SmartBackup supports path names that contain unicode characters.
· The NTFS copy permissions of all files can be preserved now.