What's new in Redo Backup and Recovery 1.0.4
Nov 28, 2012
- Base upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise)
- Percent complete now based on part sizes rather than total number of parts
- Windows now have titlebars to ease minimizing, maximizing and closing
- Time is now synced to localtime (hardware clock) after boot
- Widget theme changed to Bluebird for Gtk3 compatibility
- Now has a helpful beep to indicate when long processes are finished
- Added alsamixergui to enable mixer button on volume control
- Drive reset utility can now operate on multiple drives simultaneously
- Removed synaptic and boot-repair packages to reduce image size
New in Redo Backup and Recovery 1.0.3 (May 16, 2012)
- Restore now overwrites MBR and partition table upon completion
New in Redo Backup and Recovery 1.0.2 (Jan 4, 2012)
- Updated to latest partclone stable binaries
- Shorten dropdown menus with an ellipsis after certain character limit
- Ubuntu Maverick repos for updates and backports added; base upgraded Chromium browser launched with user data dir specified (to run as root)
- Show time elapsed when backup/restore operations are completed
- Added boot-repair tool for correcting any boot issues after restore
- Added wget utility for easily downloading files from the command line
- Show free space on destination drive while saving a backup
- Warn if less than 1GB free on backup destination drive
- Show an error if any of the partitions to restore do not exist
- Allow spaces in network shared folders
New in Redo Backup and Recovery 1.0.1 (Jan 4, 2012)
- LVM2 support added
- Fixed HFS+ bug that prevented the proper partclone tool from being called Minor changes to boot menu
- Safe mode boot option now prompts user to select a valid video mode
New in Redo Backup and Recovery 1.0.0 (Jan 4, 2012)
- Added the wodim package for command-line CD burning
- Password boxes now display hidden characters when typed in
- Increased boot delay for machines that are slow to display it
- Changed default boot option to load the system into RAM with "toram" Changed safe video mode to use "xforcevesa nomodeset"
- Updated the boot help text to provide info about Ubuntu boot options
- Removed enhanced security erase option in drive reset tool for reliability
New in Redo Backup and Recovery 0.9.9 (Jan 4, 2012)
- Added missing ntfs-3g package to allow saving backups to NTFS drives
- Version number can be found in bottom left after booting into GUI
New in Redo Backup and Recovery 0.9.8 (Jan 4, 2012)
- Major platform shift; building from Ubuntu rather than xPUD in the future
- Many base features not directly related to backup/restore have changed
- Added boot menu option to check CD media for defects
- Added performance enhancement section to /etc/smb.conf
- Updated fsarchiver and partclone binaries to latest stable versions
- Boot splash screen now displays version number for easy identification
New in Redo Backup and Recovery 0.9.7 (Jan 4, 2012)
- Added autorun.exe to help Windows users realize that a reboot is needed Changed color of UI background from orange to soft blue
- Copied VERSION and LICENSE files to root of CD-ROM for easier acces
New in Redo Backup and Recovery 0.9.6 (Jan 4, 2012)
- Fixed: Backup required scanning net before specifying a share manually
- Fixed: Verification for drive reset can detect success or failure
- Fixed: Missing rsync CLI dependencies have been added to the live CD image Modified the bookmarks, labels and links in the UI
- Marked wireless features as unsupported in the UI (experimental only)
- Default boot option uses the fbdev driver in 1024x768 (16-bit) mode
- Removed unused boot modes (e.g. command line mode)
- Boot screen wait time reduced to 5 seconds
- All packages moved to the "core" image file for simplicity
- Added the grsync graphical utility for incremental file transfers
- Added the scp tool for secure transfer of files via SSH
- Added the very powerful gnome-disk-utility (palimpsest)
- Added support for encrypted volumes with cryptsetup
- Added GUI lshw-gtk tool to easily identify computer hardware components Added the baobab graphical disk usage tool
New in Redo Backup and Recovery 0.9.5 (Jan 4, 2012)
- Major speed improvements; backups and restores now 4x faster
- Standalone gzip binary allows the compression level to be specified
- Updated partclone to version 0.2.13
- Added the smartmontools "smartctl" CLI for monitoring drive health
- Back to using syslinux from the standard Ubuntu 9.10 repo version
- Only one isolinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg file to maintain
New in Redo Backup and Recovery 0.9.4 (Jan 4, 2012)
- New option to manually specify a shared folder or FTP server
- Allow retry if network mount fails or bad password is provided
- Warning: New backup naming convention allows dashes, not underscores Created /opt/backup to hold backup components (instead of using /opt/core) ISO CD-ROM label changed to "Redo Backup"
- Suppress umount error messages when they aren't really errors
- Added testdisk_static for recovering partition tables and MBRs
- Added rsync for copying files with a progress indicator
- Default boot option now works with any VESA-compatible video card
- Simplified boot menu focused on hardware support instead of languages
- Added F1 option to boot menu to display helpful options and information Cancel button kills any running backup/restore processes before exiting Hotplug scripts removed at boot time to stop automounting (for gparted)
- USB installer upgraded to syslinux-3.86, forcibly writes mbr.bin to device
- USB installer now creates FAT32 partition and filesystem instead of FAT16 Optionally search for network shares on demand, rather than automatically Compatibility fixes and UI improvements to factory drive reset tool
- Added reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs and mcheck for more filesystem support
New in Redo Backup and Recovery 0.9.3 (Jan 4, 2012)
- Warning: Not interoperable with images from previous versions
- Updated partclone to version 0.2.12
- Save partclone error log to /partclone.log during each operation
- Split backup images into 2GB files rather than saving one giant file
- Added GZIP compression to reduce size of backup image
- Backup saves first 32768 bytes rather than 512 when imaging MBR
- Partition list saved to
- *.backup instead of *.redo
- Fixed missing nmap dependencies so that local FTP servers are found
- USB installation now detects if CD is in /dev/scd0 or /dev/sdc1
- Stronger warning before overwriting all data to destination drive
- Decision to abort restoration now aborts (continued either way before)
- Abort restore if destination drive is smaller than the original
- Do not allow partition being saved to be selected as the destination
- Warn when restoring to the same drive the backup image is being read from Minor graphic adjustment to title image
- Removed kernel boot option "quiet" so users can see it is booting
- Removed kernel boot option "noisapnp" (added by default in xPUD project) Splash screen implemented on USB stick installations
- Modified boot menu appearance and help text