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Areca Backup Changelog

What's new in Areca Backup 7.5

Aug 27, 2015
  • Fixed the issue that prevented archives from being created when there were only deleted files (no new files);
  • Fixed a minor issue when reconnecting to a FTP server.

New in Areca Backup 7.4.9 Beta (Nov 27, 2014)

  • Fixed compression issue that could occur with filenames containing line breaks.

New in Areca Backup 7.4.8 (Nov 5, 2014)

  • Fixed encryption issued which could occur with recent versions of JREs

New in Areca Backup 7.4.7 (Jun 17, 2014)

  • Fixed a performance regression introduced in v7.4

New in Areca Backup 7.4.6 (May 19, 2014)

  • Fixes a concurrency issue that could occur when creating temporary files
  • Minor improvements.

New in Areca Backup 7.4.5 (May 2, 2014)

  • Fixes the SFTP kerberos dialog box issue with Java7
  • Fixes SWT issues on 64 bit JREs.

New in Areca Backup 7.4.4 (Apr 8, 2014)

  • Fixes a compatibility issue with Java-8
  • Chinese translation update.

New in Areca Backup 7.4.3 (Mar 31, 2014)

  • If 32 and 64 bits Java environments are installed on the system, Areca will use the 64 bit by default (windows only)
  • Areca can now use up to 1GB RAM
  • Includes changes from the previous Beta version

New in Areca Backup 7.4.3 Beta (Mar 24, 2014)

  • Fixes a bug that could occur on Posix systems when the file's owner group was empty
  • New 'BACKUP_TYPE%' dynamic tag for post-processors (full/incremental/differential)
  • Ability to limit Areca's throughput when writing files.

New in Areca Backup 7.4.2 (Jan 20, 2014)

  • Fixes a bug in Delta storage that could generate 'out of memory' errors when reading large files.

New in Areca Backup 7.4.1 (Jan 20, 2014)

  • Minor memory optimizations

New in Areca Backup 7.4 (Dec 7, 2013)

  • Fixed issues that could occur on temporary files in multi-users environment
  • Areca now attempts to locate your archives when importing backup configurations
  • Minor memory optimizations when handling large directories
  • Max memory that can be used by Areca has been increased from 256MB to 512MB.

New in Areca Backup 7.3.9 (Nov 29, 2013)

  • Better error management when reading metadata
  • Cleaner configuration import window
  • Fixed a bug that occurred when using the '-date' switch in the command line tool

New in Areca Backup 7.3.8 (Nov 5, 2013)

  • Additional integrity checks after archive merges
  • Fixed memory management issue when recovering
  • Prevent from modifying backup scheme (full, differential, incremental) when resuming an interrupted backup.

New in Areca Backup 7.3.7 (Sep 2, 2013)

  • CS, ES and HU translation updates.

New in Areca Backup 7.3.6 (Aug 22, 2013)

  • Added certificate authentication for SFTP connectivity
  • Passwords are now encrypted in configuration files.

New in Areca Backup 7.3.6 Beta (Aug 21, 2013)

  • Added certificate authentication for SFTP connectivity.

New in Areca Backup 7.3.5 (Jul 15, 2013)

  • Fixed a but that prevented from creating backup shortcuts in some configurations.

New in Areca Backup 7.3.4 Beta (Jun 25, 2013)

  • Improved error messages when dangling symbolic links are encountered.

New in Areca Backup 7.3.3 Beta (May 13, 2013)

  • Improved error messages in case of invalid encryption configuration
  • Delta storage bugfix
  • Fixed memory issues that could occur when too many errors were encountered while checking archives.

New in Areca Backup 7.3.2 (May 11, 2013)

  • Fixed a bug that could prevent backups to be resumed in case of error.

New in Areca Backup 7.3.1 (Apr 22, 2013)

  • Fixed a bug that could prevent the workspace from loading when drives are disconnected.

New in Areca Backup 7.2.17 (Nov 22, 2012)

  • Minor GUI bugfixes.

New in Areca Backup 7.2.16 (Nov 16, 2012)

  • Fixed SMTPs compatibility issue : Areca can now send the 'STARTTLS' command when establishing the connection
  • Fixed a bug on transaction points
  • Fixed a bug that could occur when handling files starting with a whitespace
  • Improved file modification detection : Areca can now inspect the files' content instead of relying on their attributes
  • Minor wizard improvements.

New in Areca Backup 7.2.15 (Oct 31, 2012)

  • Minor technical bugfixes.

New in Areca Backup 7.2.14 (Oct 29, 2012)

  • Fixed a compatibility issue with IBM JVMs (Base64 encoding)
  • Better error management when handling compressed archives
  • Areca now uses by default the local temporary directory as working directory when checking archives
  • Better plugins integration

New in Areca Backup 7.2.13 (Oct 15, 2012)

  • Fixed a bug that could occur when handling arget sources spread across multiple drives
  • Better integration of plugins.

New in Areca Backup 7.2.12 (Aug 27, 2012)

  • Fixed a bug introduced in v7.2.11 that could occur with image backups when no file needs to be stored. Pre processors are now run whether a backup is required or not (ie even if no file has to be stored).

New in Areca Backup 7.2.10 (Jun 8, 2012)

  • Pre/Postprocessors can now be run when archives are merged or checked
  • Minor bugfixes and improvements.

New in Areca Backup 7.2.9 (May 17, 2012)

  • Added filename encoding verifications when recovering or merging archives Minor GUI improvements.

New in Areca Backup 7.2.7 (May 2, 2012)

  • Minor backup shortcut codepage bug fix
  • Classpath bug fix.

New in Areca Backup 7.2.6 Beta (Mar 27, 2012)

  • Translation fix on German language pack
  • File filtering bugfix
  • Minor GUI enhancements

New in Areca Backup 7.2.5 (Jan 30, 2012)

  • Minor improvements & bugfixes.

New in Areca Backup 7.2.4 (Jan 19, 2012)

  • Recovery optimization when handling large volume of data
  • Improved recovery options
  • Two merge bug fixes

New in Areca Backup 7.2.4 Beta (Dec 12, 2011)

  • Recovery optimization when handling large volume of data
  • Improved recovery options.

New in Areca Backup 7.2.3 (Dec 12, 2011)

  • Minor bugfixes

New in Areca Backup 7.2.2 (Aug 30, 2011)

  • Statistics can now be added to backup reports
  • Recovery performance improvements when handling large number of files
  • Minor GUI enhancements and bugfixes.

New in Areca Backup 7.2.1 (Feb 25, 2011)

  • Transaction parameters have been added to the target configuration window.

New in Areca Backup 7.2 (Jan 24, 2011)

  • Added support for intermediate transaction points
  • Added SFTP storage
  • Added control on encrypted filenames wrapping
  • Enhanced control on FTP passive mode

New in Areca Backup 7.1.10 (Nov 2, 2010)

  • Fixed a bug on search window.

New in Areca Backup 7.1.9 (Oct 18, 2010)

  • Fixed a bug that could occur when checking recovered files
  • Default zip compression level set to 4.

New in Areca Backup 7.1.8 (Oct 1, 2010)

  • Added control encoding option to FTP window
  • Fixed a problem that prevented last modification time to be recovered on read-only files (windows specific)
  • Faster and storage efficient 'archive check' feature
  • Faster delta storage mode
  • Added control on zip compression level
  • Minor other bugfixes & enhancements.

New in Areca Backup 7.1.7 (May 23, 2010)

  • Minor GUI enhancements & bugfixes

New in Areca Backup 7.1.6 (Apr 20, 2010)

  • Big files (over 2 GB) metadata are now properly handled
  • More control has been added to file path naming conventions on Windows
  • A bug that could occur when recovering single files in 'delta' mode has been fixed
  • Configuration storage has been refactored and simplified
  • Check' and 'Merge' features have been improved
  • Better 'Configuration import' window
  • Search' feature enhancements
  • Minor user interface enhancements.
  • CAUTION : This version includes major modifications of Areca's backup configuration format.

New in Areca Backup 7.1.5 (Sep 9, 2009)

  • More secured configuration backup (Areca makes sure that the XML backup file is correctly written on the backup location)
  • Command-line output in console has been reactivated
  • Bugfix when forcing 'full backup' mode on delta targets
  • Areca can now handle extended attribute values
  • Progress bars enhancements
  • Post-processors enhancements.

New in Areca Backup 7.1.4 (Aug 5, 2009)

  • Drag and Drop in sources configuration window
  • Bugfix when recovering a specific version of a file (the latest version was always recovered)
  • Minor enhancements

New in Areca Backup 7.1.3 (Jul 14, 2009)

  • This release fixes a major bug that occurred when recovering or merging archives that contained a high number of files.It also includes minor bug fixes in regex filters and XML configuration

New in Areca Backup 7.1.2 (Jun 16, 2009)

  • New regular expression filters options
  • Backup report enhancements
  • Post processors enhancements
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Areca Backup 7.1.1 (Jun 9, 2009)

  • Ability to view files contained in your archives using the default applications configured on your system
  • Some post-backup actions enhancements
  • Minor other enhancements

New in Areca Backup 7.1.0 (Jun 9, 2009)

  • Minor error messages enhancements
  • Named pipes are now properly handled by Areca
  • Better 'Check Archive' feature

New in Areca Backup 7.0.9 (Apr 10, 2009)

  • Synchronous backup mode available from command-line interface.
  • The 256 characters limit on file path is disabled if the Java version is over 1.6.
  • Enhanced FTP connexions management.

New in Areca Backup 7.0.8 (Mar 23, 2009)

  • Logical view minor bug fix
  • Image backup bug fix

New in Areca Backup 7.0.7 (Mar 20, 2009)

  • Regex file filter bug fix
  • Added 'encrypt file names' to the 'missing encryption data' window
  • File handle cleanup

New in Areca Backup 7.0.6 (Mar 7, 2009)

  • Delta backup bug fix.

New in Areca Backup 5.5.6 (Jan 16, 2008)

  • Some checks were added to control the length of files' paths
  • Minor enhancements

New in Areca Backup 5.5.5a (Jan 14, 2008)

  • Encryption bug fix
  • Zip64 bug fix
  • Some minor enhancements

New in Areca Backup 5.5.4 (Dec 20, 2007)

  • Recovery Bug Fix

New in Areca Backup 5.5.3 (Dec 13, 2007)

  • A new target option ('process subdirectories')
  • Differential and full backup support

New in Areca Backup 5.5.2 (Nov 27, 2007)

  • Compression enhancements : it is now possible to compress each file separately.
  • Hungarian translation
  • Some minor bug fixes and enhancements.

New in Areca Backup 5.5.1 (Nov 2, 2007)

  • Some performance optimizations for single files recovery.
  • A backup strategy wizard: helps you to create the required command files for your backup strategy.
  • Some minor bug fixes and enhancements.

New in Areca Backup 5.0a (May 30, 2007)

  • Since version 5.0, Areca has been completely refactored and uses the SWT graphic library for its user interface, which allows a better OS integration.