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Uranium Backup Free Changelog

What's new in Uranium Backup Free 9.9.0 Build 7469

Apr 4, 2024
  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Introduced new autoupdate management system
  • Introduced compatibility with VDDK 8.0.2
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Uranium Backup from being updated from the Supremo Console
  • Fixed numerous minor bugs

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.8.3 Build 7412 (Sep 20, 2023)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Fixed a bug related to the sending of logs to the Console
  • Fixed other minor bugs

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.8.1 Build 7403 (Jul 12, 2023)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Introduced 2FA (Two-factor authentication) feature for Console login
  • Improved overall speed and stability
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Fixed numerous minor bugs

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.7.0 Build 7359 (Jan 6, 2023)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Introduced compatibility with ESXi 8 and VDDK 7.0.3 and 8.0
  • Improved stability of MySql and Hyper-v backup
  • Improved communication and connection stability with Console (ref. Uranium Backup Professional)
  • Improved overall speed and stability
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Fixed some minor bugs regarding ESXi and Hyper-v backups

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.6.8 Build 7356 (Dec 20, 2022)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Introduced compatibility with ESXi 8 and VDDK 7.0.3 and 8.0
  • Improved stability of MySql and Hyper-v backup
  • Improved communication and connection stability with Console (ref. Uranium Backup Professional)
  • Improved overall speed and stability
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Fixed some minor bugs regarding ESXi and Hyper-v backups

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.6.8 Build 7229 (Dec 24, 2021)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • It's now possible to use the Backup System State also on Win Server 2019
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Fixed an issue with file and folders backup on some QNAP destinations
  • Fixed some minor bugs

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.6.7 Build 7211 (Nov 18, 2021)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Improved management of large backups on Google Drive
  • Improved FTPS backup in case of TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Fixed an issue with trial activation
  • Fixed issues with Amazon S3 cloud backup
  • Fixed some minor bugs

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.6.6 Build 7186 (Apr 22, 2021)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Introduced compatibility with VDDK 7.0.2
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Fixed issues with Cloud backups

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.6.5 Build 7175 (Jan 27, 2021)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Improved log management
  • Introduced compatibility to ESXi on machines with hardware version 17 and 18
  • Introduced compatibility with VDDK 7.0.1
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Fixed issues with backups of VMs

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.6.2 Build 7084 (Sep 3, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Introduced Drive Image support for Windows 10 version 1809 and 1903
  • It’s now possible to manage ._ files created by macOS
  • Introduced compatibility with VDDK 6.7.2
  • Improved the setup procedure
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed bug preventing the full listing of Hyper-V machines on some servers (Windows Server 2016 or later)
  • Bug fixes and several improvements to backup and replica of VMware ESXi
  • Fixed issues with incremental backup (e.g error _UraniumBackup.dat)

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.6.1 Build 6984 (Sep 18, 2018)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Drive image: fixed bug generating “Error 87-incorrect parameter” during the backup
  • Fixed bugs with the exclusion of files and folders in File and Folder and Incremental / Differential backup
  • Fixed bug generating corrupted zip files as a result of Incremental / Differential backup
  • Other minor bug fixes

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.6.0 Build 6967 (Jul 5, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Drive Image: introduced a new backup procedure on a network path that generates VHD / VHDX files, with full support for EXT3 and EXT4 file systems, incremental backups and rotation. (It is required to recreate the backup to take advantage of the new features)
  • Drive Image: introduced the ability to create a recovery disk from the restore menu, also for backups performed with the previous procedure, by completely removing the need of Windows installation drive for bare metal restore
  • Introduced support for VMware ESXi 6.7 and Hyper-V 2016
  • Improved log recording
  • Improved file management with long path in case of FTP / FTPS / SFTP backup
  • Fixed bugs:
  • OneDrive for Business: fixed several relevant bugs and improved stability
  • Cloud Backup: fixed numerous minor bugs
  • Other minor bug fixes

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.5.2 Build 6836 (Mar 12, 2018)

  • New features:
  • It’s now possible to perform the Drive Image on unmounted volumes (without a logical letter)
  • NTFS attributes copy supports now paths longer than 260 characters
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed bug with the backup of Exchange 2010/2013
  • Fixed bug to NTFS attributes copy (ntmarta.dll error on the log)
  • Bug fixes to VMware replication
  • Bug fixes to Dropbox and Onedrive

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.5.1 Build 6817 (Feb 8, 2018)

  • New features:
  • It’s now possible to perform incremental backup and replica, with “thin provisioning”, of virtual machines VMware vSphere running on not-licensed Free Hypervisor hosts, using VDDK libraries libraries
  • It’s now possible to perform ESXi replica to the same host of virtual machine
  • Exchange backup: speed improvements
  • Added Generate ZIP for technical support button in the Help menu, to create a unique log file for our technical support team
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Bug fixes to Host ESXi / vSphere replica
  • Solved connection issues to OneDrive cloud backup
  • Other minor bug fix

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.5.0 Build 6787 (Dec 6, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Introduced support to OneDrive for Business
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Improved reliability to Cloud backup service
  • Minor bug fixes to the FTP backup mode
  • More SFTP servers supported

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.4.2 Build 6710 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • New features:
  • USilio 2.0 compatible
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Other fixes

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.4.1 Build 6598 (Jun 27, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Introduced support to Dropbox API v.2
  • New Czech translation
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Cloud backup is much more reliable
  • Fixed a bug preventing Uranium from backing up Exchange 2016 mailboxes
  • Other minor fixes

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.4.0 Build 6522 (Mar 27, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Replica for VMware vSphere is now supported!
  • It’s now possible to perform an incremental / differential files and folders backup directly to an FTP / SFTP / FTPS destination
  • Uranium is now able to send email notifications in case of scheduled-but-not-executed backups
  • Much better performance with cloud backups and improved reliability
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed a bug with the backup to Google Drive preventing Uranium to send data for over 90 minutes
  • Many other bug fixes

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.3.1 Build 6272 (Feb 1, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Synchronization is far more reliable
  • It’s now possible to back up all the present and future mailboxes of an Exchange Server
  • Procedures and triggers of MySQL databases can now be backed up
  • Improved reliability with the cloud backup
  • Fixed bugs:
  • USilio is now reporting the correct size of performed backups
  • Fixed many bugs of the backup to FTP / SFTP / FTPS functionalities
  • Other minor bug fixes

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.3.0 Build 6175 (Nov 10, 2016)

  • New features:
  • It’s now possible to manage the scheduling of a backup set from USilio
  • Cloud backup completely revised, now supports Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.2.2 Build 5920 (Oct 20, 2016)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Fixed a bug preventing Uranium from accessing network folders with authentication

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.2.1 Build 5894 (Jul 6, 2016)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • USilio-related bug fixes

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.2.0 Build 5883 (May 27, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Added support to USilio
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed a bug of the incremental / differential backup with the exclusion of subfolders
  • Fixed a bug with the access credential of network destinations
  • Fixed a bug preventing the configuration of a Drive Image backup with a network destination
  • Other minor bug fixes

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.1.0 Build 5760 (Apr 27, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Uranium Backup Pro DB and Gold can now perform backup and restore operations of MySQL and MariaDB databases
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed the FireDAC error bug of the files and folders incremental/differential backup
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.0.3 Build 5645 (Feb 17, 2016)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • File and folder exclusions now working when the destination is compressed
  • Minor bug fixes of the virtual machine backup functionalities (Hyper-V and ESXi)

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.0.2 Build 5643 (Jan 18, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Uranium can now auto-resume a FTP upload after a disconnection (if supported by the server)
  • Fixed bugs:
  • You can now configure authentication credentials of an incremental/differential backup element
  • Fixed other minor bugs

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.0.1 Build 5632 (Dec 30, 2015)

  • Fixed a bug with files and folders backup on a compressed destination
  • Fixed a bug with Microsoft SQL Server backup
  • Incremental/Differential restore now shows the file list correctly
  • Fixed other minor bugs

New in Uranium Backup Free 9.0.0 Build 5622 (Dec 23, 2015)

  • New features:
  • New UI design
  • New files and folders incremental/differential backup
  • Better performance (both reactivity of the UI and backup speed)
  • VM backup for both VMware ESX(i) and Hyper-V far more reliable
  • It’s now possible to perform full backups of Microsoft Exchange mailboxes (greatly improved performance on Windows SBS 2011)
  • It’s now possible to back up files and folders encrypted with Windows BitLocker
  • It’s now possible to compress (ZIP) backups of files and folders in paths longer than 256 characters
  • It’s now possible to test the service during the trial period
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Minor improvements and bug fixes (no more FTP loops, no more folder authentication problems and much more)

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.10.2 Build 5455 (May 4, 2015)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed a bug preventing Uranium service from launching backup sets on Windows XP/2003 Server
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.10.1 Build 5447 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • New features:
  • General performance improvement
  • Now Uranium can automatically unzip individually compressed files during a restore
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed a bug preventing VDDK libraries to work with VMware vCenter
  • Fixed a product version bug causing the backup set configuration files to be saved in the virtualstore folder
  • Fixed false positive errors with drive image backup

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.10.0 Build 5426 (Mar 23, 2015)

  • New features:
  • VDDK support: Uranium can now perform thin and incremental backups of ESX(i)/vSphere virtual machines
  • Much faster ESX(i)/vSphere virtual machine backups even without VDDK support
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed minor bugs of the ESX(i)/vSphere and Hyper-V backup functionalities

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.9.7 Build 5375 (Feb 3, 2015)

  • New features:
  • Uranium can now automatically decompress compressed files during a FTP restore
  • Improved performance with ESXi VM backup (Uranium is now able to auto-detect and select the best buffer size)
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed a bug of the copy attributes option with customized icons
  • Fixed a bug with DFS drives, Uranium ignored all the files stored on DFS origins during the backup
  • Fixed minor bugs of Azure and Hyper-V backup modes

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.9.6 Build 5303 (Nov 11, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Introduced remote (LAN) Hyper-V virtual machine backup
  • Autoupdate: now available on Uranium Backup Free
  • Now it’s possibile to specify the port range of an active FTP/FTPS/SFTP connection
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed a bug with Windows 8 – and higher – data deduplication
  • Fixed a minor bug of the restore of an Exchange mailbox backup
  • Fixed many minor bugs of the FTP/FTPS/SFTP backup functionalities

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.9.5 Build 5200 (Jul 23, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Added native Hyper-V virtual machine backup
  • Empowered folder exclusion functionality to the FTP backup
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed minor bugs of the ESX/ESXi VM backup

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.9.0 Build 5133 (Feb 26, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Added cloud manager and new backup to Microsoft Windows Azure storage functionalities
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed minor bugs of the ESX/ESXi VM backup
  • Fixed bugs of the Exchange backup

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.8.1 Build 5066 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • Fixed the infinite loop bug of the FTP backup
  • Fixed bugs of the Exchange backup features
  • Fixed a minor bug of the FTP backup configurator

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.8.0 Build 5060 (Sep 12, 2013)

  • Added new Exchange Server backup functionalities (Uranium Backup Pro DB)

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.7.3 Build 5050 (Aug 19, 2013)

  • Fixed a bug preventing the backup of multiple ESXi-based VMs
  • Abort button during a VM restore now works correctly
  • Fixed a problem with Drive Image on RDX

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.6.7 Build 4865 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • New features:
  • New internal database to manage incremental zip files
  • Synchronization for incremental zip files has been improved
  • FTP Upload: new option to compare the files to be uploaded with a local database to speed up the transfer
  • Some minor graphic improvements
  • Fixed bugs:
  • ESX - solved a problem of duplicated .vmdk files reported in the log
  • Logging - fixed an error in the number of processed items
  • Logging - fixed an error in detecting the right license type
  • Fixed an error in getting the number of the week in the year
  • Incremental zip compression for individual files: in some cases the file extension filter was not considered
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.6.6 Build 4829 (Dec 29, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Some graphic improvements
  • New option for direct copy, incremental zip compression and FTP transfers, to copy only files that have been modified in the last N days
  • Help updated
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.6.5 Build 4799 (Dec 8, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Some graphic improvements
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Solved error 404 with some ESX servers
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.6.4 Build 4758 (Nov 29, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Zip compression: now the program shows the total progress of the file zip creation
  • ESX backup: new parameter "quiescing" to suspend the virtual machine before the backup
  • Fixed bugs:
  • ESX backup: fixed a bug in downloading configuration files if a "cluster" architecture was used
  • ESX backup: fixed a snapshot error caused by "quiescing" mode with some specific configurations
  • ESX backup: fixed a wrong error message in .vmx file size verification

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.6.3 Build 4746 (Nov 16, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Some graphic and usability improvements in the main interface
  • ESX backup: added some new checks in the backup process
  • The Help file has been updated to the latest version
  • Fixed bugs:
  • ESX 3.5 backup: solved a problem in downloading .vmdk files
  • ESX backup: some minor bugs fixed
  • Some translations fixes

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.6.1 Build 4646 (Oct 20, 2011)

  • New features:
  • ESX backup: now the virtual machine download is faster
  • ESX backup: virtual machines, vSphere servers and hosts are now shown in a tree structure
  • ESX backup: now the program shows the virtual machine states (on, off, paused) and the host states (connected, disconnected)
  • ESX backup: now the program shows the progress of the snapshot creation
  • Fixed bugs:
  • ESX backup: fixed a blocking error in the download and the error "file is in use" with some Windows XP virtual machines
  • ESX restore: fixed a blocking error in the recovery of some virtual machines on vCenter 4.1
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.6.0 Build 4646 (Oct 20, 2011)

  • New features:
  • ESXi, ESX and vSphere: Backup, Replication and Recovery
  • Now the burning functions are available starting from the Base version (the Pro Burn version doesn`t exist anymore)
  • New wizard interface design for several configuration windows
  • Added a menu item to add an FTP Download
  • Added 2 new Special Strings (%LZ%, %ZD%), that can be used after a backup and that represent, respectively, the full path and the date of the last zip file created by Uranium during the backup
  • New interface design
  • New graphic layout of the official website
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.5.0 Build 4581 (Jul 14, 2011)

  • New features:
  • SQL Server: improved the visual aspect of the window for backup configuration
  • Tape: improved the visual aspect and the usability of the restore window
  • General options: removed some obsolete options
  • New buttons for the items and destinations list and for the main toolbar
  • Fixed bugs:
  • FTP: solved the "read timeout" error when transferring big files with some routers
  • Now it is possible to see the backups running through the service even if you aren`t in the main user session
  • SFTP: improved UTF8 compatibility also for protocols version 3 or earlier
  • SFTP: fixed an upload error with 0 byte files
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.4.9 Build 4510 (Apr 12, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Tape: removed the ASPI support (obsolete), now the program always use the native interface
  • Windows Image Backup and System State Backup: better error handling
  • FTP: better error handling in case of "quota exceeded" error
  • FTP: better error handling
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Windows Image Backup: solved a problem in keeping more copies on some systems
  • System State Backup: solved a problem in deleting old backups on some systems. Now Uranium keeps the right number of copies.
  • FTPS: removed automatic passive mode, that could block the connection with some firewall
  • Tape restore: solved the error "Invalid argument to date encode" on some systems
  • Solved a problem in the function to convert a mapped network drive to the full UNC path
  • FTP: fixed the "Read timed out" error
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.4.8 Build 4453 (Feb 11, 2011)

  • New Features
  • Service: now the Uranium`s instance executed by the service under the SYSTEM account can interact with the desktop also in Vista, 2008 and 7.
  • Some minor improvements
  • Fixed bugs
  • SQL Server: solved a problem of wrong error message when executing Stored Procedures
  • SQL Server: fixed some restore problems in SQL Server 2000
  • Fixed an error that in some cases could cause the wrong saving of the general encryption password.

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.4.7 Build 4433 (Dec 26, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Improved unicode compatibility for log files
  • Tape: now the calculation of bytes written is more accurate
  • Some minor improvements
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Solved a problem in refreshing the activity window for backup executed by the service

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.4.6 Build 4422 (Dec 14, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • Installation of the service: it is now presented as the default choice of a specific account, and is automatically enhanced the username field, with the eventual domain
  • Possibility of automatic conversion of units in the mapped network paths complete
  • Synchronization: more control of access network location, local drives and mapped drives, to prevent the failure of `accessibility provoking bad sync
  • Bug fixes:
  • FTP SSL: Fixed problem communicating with the server requesting a TLS encrypted data transfer

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.4.5 Build 4409 (Nov 22, 2010)

  • New featues:
  • New command line options: "tape explore", "tape restore", "tape guid", "tape size", "tape format", "set option"
  • Command line: new handling of the file cmdlineresult.txt (the first character in the file is the result: 1 if the operation has been completed correctly and 0 if there has been an error)
  • Tape backup and restore: improved and speeded up the CRC generation procedures
  • Tape restore: log has been simplified
  • MD5 and CRC calculation in the direct copy: now the progress is correctly displayed
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Tape backup: the incremental mode had the same behavior of the differential
  • Fixed an error on creating the root folder in FTP destinations (upload and download)
  • Tape restore: fixed an error in reading the backup header on some systems
  • Tape Backup: fixed the "unhandled error" at backup start with some file types
  • SQL Server: now the network authentication data can be set also if the specified path is local
  • SQL Server: fixed an error on backup verification for network servers

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.4.3 Build 4381 (Oct 26, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • Drive Image e System State Backup: now it is possible to retain more copies
  • Some minor improvements
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Now the Mail Report and Scheduling settings are not reset when clicking again on the Backup Set menu
  • Fixed an error of infinite recursion in Tape backup with some special folders
  • Fixed a visualization problem of e-mails in the MAIL ZIP BACKUP (in unicode languages)
  • Solved a problem of progress visualization in creating ISO files.
  • SQL Server: solved some errors when restoring on a different/new database, and when the backup file contained FullText catalogs.
  • Some minor bugs fixes

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.4.2 Build 4364 (Oct 21, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • Drive Image e System State Backup: now it is possible to retain more copies
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Now the Mail Report and Scheduling settings are not reset when clicking again on the Backup Set menu
  • Fixed an error of infinite recursion in Tape backup with some special folders
  • Fixed a visualization problem of e-mails in the MAIL ZIP BACKUP (in unicode languages)

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.4.1 Build 4336 (Sep 28, 2010)

  • TP Upload: new option to decide if automatically delete the temporary zip files on the server
  • Translation in Korean.
  • Translation in Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.4.0 Build 4318 (Sep 2, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Update of configuration files management on Vista, 2008 and 7 operating systems
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Now the folder "System Volume Information" is correctly excluded also for network items.
  • Solved activation issues on dual-processor systems
  • Fixed an error on activity window positioning when the Windows taskbar was put on the left/right side of the screen
  • In the individual files compression, now the date of the zip files remains unchanged if the file contained in the zip has not been updated.

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.3.2 Build 4246 (Jul 2, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Ability to choose multiple disks/partitions for the drive image backup
  • Now the log is written if Shadow Copy is enabled/usable increased from 5 to 10 maximum number (by default) of concatenated operations to execute before and after a backup
  • Set Now to reach the maximum number of concatenated operations, if there are others to be executed, an error is reported in the log of the last backup
  • Set some updates in the translation
  • Bugs fixed:
  • SQL Server: fixed errors due to database names with square brackets
  • FTP Upload: fixed error creating numbered root folder.

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.3.1 Build 4239 (Jun 15, 2010)

  • New features:
  • New version Pro Shadow (Base + copy of open/locked files with Volume Shadow Copy)
  • Log: the license type is now shown after the version number
  • Command line: now you can add the tape backup destination and the burning destination
  • Command line: now you can send a command to open the tape restore window
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Some minor fixes in the Brazilian Portuguese translation

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.3.0 Build 4223 (Jun 8, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Uranium 8 is out of BETA stage. It officially becomes the stable/production version
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.2 (Jun 8, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Drive Image Backup and System State Backup: two new backup procedures for Disaster Recovery and Bare metal restore (Vista, 2008, 7)
  • Two new Special Strings to get the newest and the oldest folder in a directory
  • Two new information in the log list: size of copied files and time taken
  • Tape: Added an option to enable-disable the hardware compression
  • Tape: now the program can detect some specific hardware errors related to the peripheral and consequently abort the backup
  • E-mail notifications: now you can duplicate the e-mail settings from a Backup Set to another
  • FTP: new support to the secure FTPS (FTP-SSL) protocol in all the upload-download procedures and in the FTP Client
  • SQL Server: now the network authentication is more accurate and powerful
  • Activity window for backups executed through the Service: now it is shown the zip file name when compressing and encrypting
  • Copy of security permissions: new option to choose if maintain or not the inherited permissions
  • Translation in Brazilian Portuguese - Thanks to Cleber Baglioni Silva
  • Fixed bugs:
  • FTP Client: improved some reconnection checkings in case of connection interruptions or user abortions
  • Tape: fixed a bug in Special Strings substitution in the item names
  • Network authentication: fixed some authentications errors in case of Special Strings in the item names
  • FTP Upload: fixed a notification error when a file upload task was interrupted by the user
  • Running of external processes: fixed an error on executing some Windows programs on 64-bit operating systems
  • Service start: fixed a logon error on some systems. Now Uranium can automatically create the necessary security policies.

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.1.2 (Jun 8, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Added the checking of some user privileges when UAC is enabled
  • Added the version checking for Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Some minor improvements
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • E-mail notifications: fixed the errors "501 Syntactically invalid EHLO argument(s)" and "Invalid address"
  • FTP Client: now the "previous folder" button works properly
  • Burning: fixed a bug that could abort the burning process if there were some types of locked files
  • FTP Download: fixed a problem in the progress bar during a file download (progress bar always on zero)
  • FTP Client: fixed a problem on checking the SFTP disconnection
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.1.1 (Jun 8, 2010)

  • New features:
  • New activity window to see all the backups running through the Service
  • SQL Server: new posibility of automatic authentication in network paths
  • Now the backup speed in the log is reported in MB/min instead of KB/s
  • Free ISO creator: now the ISO file creation is available also in the Freeware version
  • Translation in Russian language. Thanks to Viktoriya Malchenko
  • Bugs fixed:
  • FTP: fixed the detection of symbolic links on FTP servers Unix/Linux based (for example in some NAS models)
  • Service management and UAC: fixed some "access denied" issues in reading some service information
  • Now the activity window is correctly positioned depending on the taskbar height (for example: higher taskbar on Windows 7)
  • FTP Client: automatic reconnection in case of connection closed due to a timeout
  • SQL Server: fixed the timeout error during the backup verification
  • E-mail notifications: fixed Socket errors 10053/10054 with SSL connections (e.g.: Gmail)
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.1.0 (Jun 8, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Tape: now you can choose the maximum lenght of file paths: from 256 to 512 characters.
  • Tape: some improvements for a better speed and a reduced memory consumption
  • New information on status bar: service and scheduling state
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed "read timeout" error in sending of notification e-mail using SSL (for example: GMAIL) on the port 465
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.0.6 (Jun 8, 2010)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed "Out Of Memory" error in the creation of the file list for restore from tape: now the program can allocate more memory on 64 bit systems
  • Significantly decreased the memory consumption during the creation of the file list for restore from tape
  • Fixed problem on generation of unreadable machine codes on some computers
  • Fixed problem on corean characters visualization in the notification e-mails
  • Some minor fixes in the translations.

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.0.5 (Jun 8, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Added the information about the number of executions with errors in the Backup Set information panel
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Now the Backup Set conversion to version 8 is made also with manual importation
  • Fixed errors in showing and processing items in case of a large number of items.
  • Tape: fixed a bug in showing the writing speed in the log in case of very high speeds and lage amounts of data.
  • New procedures to set and synchronize NTFS permissions: fixed errors on Windows 2008, higher speed, fixed "access denied" errors
  • Error in creating Windows scheduled tasks: now the program automatically add the domain (if present) in the username field (the lack of the domain could cause errors). Error messages more accurated.
  • Tape restore: fixed some visualization errors on Korean operating systems
  • Some minor fixes in the translations

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.0.2 Build 3910 Beta (Jan 15, 2010)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Increased the speed in selecting of the items (in multiple selection) when there are unreachable network items.
  • FTP: Fixed "List index out of bounds" error when listing files on Windows FTP server with MS-DOS directory listing mode.
  • FTP: fixed application error when a transfer is aborted.
  • Fixed application error in Volume Shadow Copy during direct copy operations.
  • Fixed program freezing in sending of e-mail notifications and slowing-down of disconnection in case of connection problems on some SMTP ports.
  • Fixed conversion error of the configuration`s protection password when updating from version 7 to version 8.

New in Uranium Backup Free 8.0 (Jan 15, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Burning: compatibility with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs
  • Burning: UDF File System
  • Burning: full Unicode support,
  • Burning: file path of any length (automatically renames the file names longer than 127 characters and puts a notice in the log)
  • Burning: copy of locked files with Volume Shadow Copy
  • Burn: Writing of files larger than 2 GB
  • Burning: disc verification option
  • Tape: full Unicode support, and ability to save files with paths longer than 255 characters
  • Tape Restore: the version 8 can restore backups created with earlier versions
  • Tape: now the "In case of error, continue the backup anywway" option is enabled by default
  • Tape: Now the window that shows the detailed progress of tape backup closes automatically at the end of writing to tape, to free up memory for other operations
  • SQL Server: new Restore feature: automatic (as element) and manual
  • SQL Server: Added new verification option
  • SQL Server: updated the version detection with the versions 2005 SP3 and 2008 RTM / SP1
  • Volume Shadow Copy: now no longer created temporary files: a substantial increase in speed and space saving
  • Volume Shadow Copy: better management and optimization of shadow copies in memory. Creating only if necessary and automatic deletion
  • Volume Shadow Copy: now the option of copying locked files is enabled by default
  • Volume Shadow Copy: Added an option to ignore locked files if they are also hidden or system files
  • FTP: now Uranium supports the UTF-8 extension, to upload and download files and folders with Unicode names
  • SFTP: procedures updated and made Unicode
  • SFTP: now it is suppoerted the bandwidth limitation
  • E-Mail sending with SSL: Improved handling of SSL libraries (no more a separate download in the general options, now the libraries are embedded in the program)
  • E-Mail sending with SSL connection: Updated the SSL libraries for greater compatibility and stability, improved management of loading into memory
  • E-Mail sending with SSL connection: new option in the e-mail sending configuration to choose whether to use SSL secure connection
  • Now the Backup Set options are set separately, according to those that are selected in the main menu of the options
  • Zip compression: unicode support for file names and paths compatible with WinZip and other archive management tools
  • ZIP compression: the option to re-check files during compression and the option to disable error reporting for files removed during compression are now enabled by default
  • Now they are automatically excluded some system files and folders that cause errors and that are not important for the backup (pagefile.sys, hyberfil.sys, etc ...)
  • Increased the number of characters allowed for the username of the FTP destinations
  • Adding the "64-bit" information in the log in the description of the operating system
  • Improved look and feel of the main window and the list of logs and new options menu
  • AutoUpdate differentiated between version 7 and version 8
  • Now in the name of the Backup Set you can use almost all the characters
  • New unique installation file

New in Uranium Backup Free 7.5.1 Build 3226 (Oct 16, 2009)

  • SFTP function have been updated to improve compatibility with all servers
  • French translation.
  • Dutch translation.

New in Uranium Backup Free 7.5.0 Build 3200 (Jul 31, 2009)

  • New Features
  • Service: now in the Backup Set information panel the program shows a message if the Backup Set is running through the service. A little "play" symbol appears in the Backup Set icon. Moreover it is also shown a link with which you can terminate the backup process depending on Process ID.
  • Service: removed the possibility to use the option to make the service able to interact with the desktop on Vista and later (because this mode is no more supported)
  • Language files: now they are installed on a common system folder (no more in the program installation folder)
  • Unicode characters support in the main menu
  • Polish translation
  • Fixed bugs
  • Fixed an error message on an SQL Server item when you added other folders in the list of the items though the multi-selection button.
  • Tape: now the program doesn`t make the verification if no file has been copied, because in this case the verification always raises an error (for example if the program makes an incremental backup and doesn`t copy any file)
  • Fixed an error that caused item duplication if the item had a file filter set and you deleted one of its own destinations.

New in Uranium Backup Free 7.4.0 Build 3126 (Jun 13, 2009)

  • New Features
  • Added a new option to recreate the entire path of the items in the Direct Copy and Zip compression
  • Increased the number of allowed characters for the user name in the FTP destinations
  • Added the "64 bit" information in the log for the operating system description
  • Added the symbolic name in the tape drive description in the main and detailed log
  • Removed the link to create a Windows scheduled task in the scheduling panel (the link is still present in the Backup Set contextual menu)
  • The date selection lists now show the current date by default
  • Tape: now a rewind error or an error in setting the block size cause the backup abort.
  • Fixed Bugs
  • Fixed an issue in reading the complete tape drive description on some operating systems
  • Fixed a tape restore error when in the system there was only a tape drive but with the symbolic name Tape1 instead of Tape0
  • Fixed an error that causes program hang due to a date conversion error with some particular system date formats
  • Fixed an error in MD5 verification with files in the disk root (e.g.: C:) and when was used the "unique root folder" option.
  • Fixed and optimized the function to check the existence of files on FTP servers: with some NAS servers or UNIX/LINUX systems Uranium got an "authorization denied" error and so it was not able to check the existence of remote files, transferring again at each backup all files, regardless if they have been modified or not.

New in Uranium Backup Free 7.3.0 Build 3071 (Mar 3, 2009)

  • New Features
  • Compatibility with Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)
  • Volume Shadow Copy support also for Windows7 and Windows 7 64 bit
  • Added a new option to avoid the automatic disconnection from network shares if there are other active Uranium instances run by the service
  • SQL Server: added the backup file size (normal and compressed) in the log
  • SQL Server: improved the function to retrieve the correct version and service pack
  • SQL Server: now the program can also handle the port in the server address, in the form "ServerAddress,Port"
  • SQL Server: Improved the function to retrieve the path and the size of the backup file, even if the program cannot access the destination folder
  • Tape: added a more detailed message for the "end of tape" error, also in the main log
  • SSL components installation in general options: added a button to uninstall them
  • Fixed Bugs
  • Zip compression: fixed an issue in creating temporary files
  • Zip compression: fixed an issue in compressing subfolders
  • FTP Client: fixed an error in exploring subfolders in SFTP connections
  • FTP Client: fixed an error in deleting folders
  • SFTP: fixed an issue that did not allow you to connect to a port different form the 22 (default)
  • Tape: better precision in the log for the size of data written on tape
  • Direct copy to network paths: a connection error to a destination could cause a false error to the next network destinations
  • Other minor bugs fixed

New in Uranium Backup Free 7.2.0 Build 2980 (Jan 10, 2009)

  • New features
  • SQL Server: added the Special Strings replacement also in the exclusion filter
  • Added the check (and the warning in the log) of password changes since the last backup (general encryption password, zip and tape passwords)
  • FTP Download: now the dates of local files are set as the dates of remote files, once they have been downloaded
  • FTP Client: added the number of files and the total size of files in the remote folders in the bottom of the list
  • FTP Client: now it is possible to move multiple files
  • Synchronization with file deletion in direct copy: now the file existence check is more accurated, the program now considers also hidden and system files, and consider a file as no more existing only if it detects specific errors (for example, not in case of "access denied" errors)
  • Added the Special Strings replacement also in the Common Destinations (added also a menu item to type a destination manually)
  • SQL Server: now it is shown in the log the complete path of backup files, also when no backup folder is specified and so the database server uses the default path
  • Added 3 new Special Strings: %UF%: path of the user`s profile folder - %UD%: path of the user`s desktop - %UM%: path of the user`s documents folder
  • Fixed Bugs
  • SQL Server: fixed some errors in selecting and retrieving the path of the backup files on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista
  • SQL Server: fixed a backup error on SQL Server 2000 when no backup folder was specified
  • FTP: fixed error of continuous reconnection attempts in case of timeout or disconnection errors
  • FTP download: solved program freezing problems in case of unespected network disconnection.
  • Fixed an error in checking the existence and in opening of a Windows Scheduled Task on 2008 and Vista
  • SQL Server: fixed backup error when was specified the native compression option and the database server version was different from 2008 enterprise (the only one where the native compression is available)

New in Uranium Backup Free 7.0.0 Build 2837 (Sep 23, 2008)

  • Version 7.0.0 Build 2837
  • Running as Service
  • Copy of locked files (Volume Shadow Copy) now supported on XP, 2003, VISTA, 2008
  • Advanced options for sending of e-mail notifications
  • Translation in Spanish (thanks to Javier Pizarro Ortiz)
  • New English translation (thanks to Donny Jasperson)
  • Added full description of operating system name and version in the log
  • Added 2 new special strings: %OW% and %OR% (Registered Owner and Registered Organization: information from Windows installation)
  • Tape: extremely increased the speed of creating the file list in backup and restore operations
  • Direct copy: added a combined function (and its relative "general option") to check locked files and copy them.
  • New installer that installs Uranium for all users
  • New uninstaller, more powerful, that removes registry keys, uninstalls the service, terminates all instances of Uranium
  • New option to decide if restart the Volume Shadow Copy services at each backup
  • SQL Server: Added an advanced filter option to exclude specific databases from backup, even according to their names
  • SQL Server: improved the appearence of the SQL Server backup items in the log file. Added the full version of the SQL Server.
  • Added the possibility to protect Uranium configuration with a password
  • Added the creation of the root folders for FTP download
  • Added two separate menu items to execute all the Backup Set in two ways: one by one or all at once in separate instances. You can also choose whether to shutdown the PC at the end of all backups.
  • FTP upload: now the program, before each upload of zip files, check that there are no old temporary files and if so, delete them
  • Ability to manually add the specific exclusions of an item, then even partial paths or with wildcards (* and ?)
  • Tape: Improved the handling of "access denied" / "tape locked" errors in the functions that lists the tape drives. Now you have more accurate error messages and if a tape is locked you can still select another (if present) to make a backup or a restore.
  • Tape detailed logs and e-mail: When you attach the detailed log of tape backup to the notification e-mail it is automatically zipped (otherwise when you backup many files the attachment might be very large)
  • A number of improvements for speed and reliability

New in Uranium Backup Free 6.8.0 Build 2531 (Jun 27, 2008)

  • New Features
  • SQL Server: dynamic backup of all databases with a single item (the program detect each time what databases are present)
  • FTP: possibility to limit bandwidth in upload and download (you can set the speed in KB/s)
  • Possibility to create root directory with a custom name and with a progressive number, for local and ftp destinations
  • Officially tested the full compatibility with Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008
  • Fixed Bugs
  • New wait function between various sql server backup operations, to avoid errors due to locked files
  • Solved an issue in checking the existence of the sql server backup file if the server was on a different machine
  • Solved an issue in subfolders exclusion when using the option to ignore locked files

New in Uranium Backup Free 6.6.5 Build 2430 (Apr 9, 2008)

  • SQL Server: now the program counts the size and the number of backup files and shows the correct values in the activity window and in the log.
  • Volume Shadow Copy: now the program starts and stops automatically the Shadow Copy services. It is no more necessary to enable Shadow Copies from Windows volume properties.
  • Added an option to shutdown the computer after backup
  • Zip compression: now the program shows the progress while it's writing and reading the temporary file: with very large zip files the program`s interface was frozen.
  • Added the possibility to choose between 3 file comparison methods in the direct copy: MD5, CRC, memory footprint.
  • Added two new special strings, for using in items names: %LF% (the latest file in a folder) - %OF% (the oldest file in a folder). For example: D:mydocuments%LF% (subfolders are not considered)
  • Added a new option to copy files comparing their dates with the current date (for example: copy only files that have date equal to today)
  • Changed the color of warnings in the log if for a specific item the program didn`t copy any file: gray instead of red
  • Added the number of warnings in the log header
  • Added a special icon (a sheet with the % symbol) for items that contains special strings. Now that items are not considered as errors anymore.
  • Several little performance and disk access optimizations.
  • Modified some menu and option names and the item icon for the sinchronization with file deletion
  • Now the program returns the backup error in the log if there are some unavailable items when creating aggregated zip files.
  • Solved possible problems with tls/ssl libraries in e-mail sending, if there are other libraries of the same type installed in the system
  • Incremental zip compression: some little fixes in file deletion

New in Uranium Backup Free 6.5.1 Build 2377 (Mar 5, 2008)

  • Added the new special string %PP%: program`s path
  • Tape - restore: added the number of files and folders and the total size in the log listbox, after file structure configuration.
  • Improved ftp backup (upload and download): now the program continues the transfer also in case of disconnection due to Socket error 10053 (software caused connection abort), 10054 (connection reset by peer), error 421 (connection timed out) and "connection interrupted"
  • In some kinds of backup the program didn`t make the replacement of special strings (burning, tape, aggregated zip)
  • Fixed error in creation of the first log file: the first time was not created the backup set specific log folder
  • Tape - backup: fixed error in backup verify and tape eject: if was set the option to eject the tape, the verify result was always an error.
  • Tape - restore: removed the insert of all counted files in the log listbox: considerably increased the speed in creating the list of files on tape