What's new in Safe Data Backup 6.0
Apr 15, 2022
- Updated for Windows 11 compatibility
- Added the ability to choose different toolbar button sizes. See "File / Options... / Toolbar Button Size:". Choose from <Automatic>, Tiny, Small, Medium, or Large. The <Automatic> option selects an optimal size based on the screen's resolution, and is the default setting.
- Added support for high resolution monitors
- Updated the list view sort arrows to use more modern styling
- Updated installer program
- Updated OpenSSL version
- Various updates in documentation
- Other minor improvements
- July 1, 2016 version 5.1:
New in Safe Data Backup 5.1 (Sep 22, 2021)
- Increased size of maximum backup path to 1023 characters. Was previously limited to 259.
- Added a "Notes" tab in the Backup Configuration dialog to record notes for each backup job. Useful to help remember anything associated with this backup job.
- Added support for sending emails through an SMTP server using TLS encryption. Used to only support SSL, now support both SSL and TLS. Available for emailing remote backup or emailing job log results.
- Added support for SFTP and FTPS (explicit). Now supports Plain FTP, SFTP - SSH File Transfer protocol, FTPS - Explicit FTP over TLS, and FTPS - Implicit FTP over TLS.
- Added options for FTP upload to choose whether or not to validate SSL certificate authenticity and hostname match
- Security and speed improvements: Re-built with latest compiler and security library (OpenSSL)
- Added information to verbose log used for determining if a revision was made to a source file (size, attributes, date/time of last write)
- Other minor improvements
New in Safe Data Backup 5.0 (Sep 22, 2021)
- Updated for Windows 10 compatibility
- Fixed issue where "Help / Contents…" would not properly display initial help page
New in Safe Data Backup 4.2 (Mar 13, 2015)
- Improved reliability of setup program
- Improved reading of license. Extra line returns from email programs could sometimes cause license to be reported as invalid.
- Bug fix: Fixed small memory leak upon program exit
New in Safe Data Backup 4.1 (Dec 3, 2014)
- Updated links in program to all use HTTPS instead of HTTP
- Security improvement: Updated to current OpenSSL library for sending email via SSL
- Bug fix: Program could crash if the Revision path got too long
- Bug fix: When specifying multiple comma delimited recipients for email backup and using SSL the email would fail
- Bug fix: In some rare cases sending an email could cause the program to crash
New in Safe Data Backup 4.0 (Feb 10, 2014)
- Updated for Windows 8 compatibility
- Improved backup for more robustness related to keeping deleted files marked as read-only
New in Safe Data Backup 3.3 (Oct 28, 2011)
- Improved robustness of FTPs remote backup uploads
New in Safe Data Backup 3.2 (Oct 28, 2011)
- Improved installation program to verify required .NET Framework version (2.0) is installed on the computer. This is required for the new FTPs feature.
New in Safe Data Backup 3.1 (Oct 28, 2011)
- Added FTPs (Secure FTP) remote backup option
- Improved adding files/folders to backup configurations by adding drag and drop support when User Account Control (UAC) is on. Previously drag and drop was only available when UAC was off.
- Bug fix: List view columns could have their data displayed out of order after columns were re-ordered
- Other minor improvements
New in Safe Data Backup 3.0 (Dec 16, 2009)
- Added support for running under Windows 7
- Added option to send an e-mail with the results of a backup job after it finishes
- Added support for e-mail servers requiring a secure connection (SSL). Used when sending remote backups by e-mail or for e-mailing job results.
New in Safe Data Backup 2.1 (Jul 15, 2009)
- Added support for using Windows Task Scheduler under Windows XP when the username does not have an assigned password. Previously this option was only available under Vista.
New in Safe Data Backup 2.0 (Feb 13, 2009)
- Added support for running under all 64 bit versions of Vista.
New in Safe Data Backup 1.4 (Jul 10, 2008)
- Improved FTP upload robustness to handle various error conditions better