Version History
Below you can read a detailed version history for Backup4all Professional (starting with version 4.0). Be sure to check our blog at http://blog.backup4all.com/ too as we post in there details regarding the new versions.
Changes in Backup4all 4.8.286 (3-October-2012)
- Fix: Fixed a problem occurring when backing up open files on 32-bit OS
Changes in Backup4all 4.8.286 (3-October-2012)
- Fix: Fixed a problem occuring when backing up open files on 32-bit OS
Changes in Backup4all 4.8.285 (24-September-2012)
- Fix: Built-in scheduler was not created on Windows 8
- Fix: "Backup open files" was not working correctly
Changes in Backup4all 4.8.282 (31-August-2012)
- Fix: If the option to "Start at Windows Start-up" was checked, in certain conditions when the computer exited the hibernation state, Backup4all would freeze
- Fix: When starting up, the window showing quick actions was displayed behind the main program window, making it unusable
- Fix: Backup4all froze when starting a scheduled task with "Close after run" set as an action
Changes in Backup4all 4.8.278 (13-July-2012)
- Fix: Password was encrypted twice in some cases, causing problems on restore
- Fix: Large split files weren’t deleted from the destination when the option to do so was enabled
- Fix: After the second execution of a fast mirror backup an error might occur when testing even if the modified files were correctly backed up
- Fix: Error when using the “Yes, limit number of file versions”
Changes in Backup4all 4.8.275 (21-June-2012)
- New: Important backup speed enhancements
- New: Improved source filter matching
- New: Faster file access functions while archiving
- New: Detailed log creation speed is faster
- Fix: Restoring a file from a mirror with zip had a different modified time
- Fix: Cannot force a different backup type for a backup shortcut
- Fix: The BD-R disks were not 100% filled when the sources were on multiple drives
Changes in Backup4all 4.7.270 (10-May-2012)
- Fix: Problems when backing up files/folders with Korean characters
- Fix: Problems when backing up files/folders with Chinese characters
- Fix: Some fixes for SFTP destination.
Changes in Backup4all 4.7.268 (11-April-2012)
- Fix: For some FTP/SFTP servers, there was a warning about files uploaded with a different size.
- Fix: Catalog file was not renamed on some FTP/SFTP servers.
- Fix: Backup russian characters from Russian OS and restore to English OS problem fixed.
Changes in Backup4all 4.7.265 (23-03-2012)
- New: Added new transfer types for FTP uploads: Binary, Ascii and Auto
- New: New option that allows customizing the list of file types to transfer in ASCII mode
- New: Time for scheduled jobs is now in the same format as the one on the Windows machine where it's defined
- Fix: Scheduled tasks created via the new backup wizard did not start in certain situations.
Changes in Backup4all 4.6.263 (17-02-2012)
- Fix: Backup4all did not run at start when using a domain user account.
- Fix: Customized filters couldn't be modified after creation.
- Fix: Using independent splits when backing up to FTP caused an invalid warning.
Changes in Backup4all 4.6.259 (20-10-2011)
- Fix: Outlook accounts with special characters in their names were not backed up
- Fix: Backup destination was not changed when opening a catalog from USB
- Fix: Layout.ini file was not correctly recreated
- Fix: The test for predefined FTP configuration did not work in the new backup wizard.
Changes in Backup4all 4.6.254 (18-07-2011)
- Fix: In some cases, the scheduler password was asked again when saving the job
- Fix: Backup on demand using OTB button was not working
- Fix: When a backup was aborted because the action before it failed, all buttons for that job were grayed out
- Fix: When using Mirror backup, the folders were not removed from FTP destination if they were deleted from sources.
Changes in Backup4all 4.6.253 (27-05-2011)
- Fix: Successful email was sent even if external drive was disconnected
- Fix: Cache size for burner engine was increased
- Fix: The merged files will be deleted only after the resulting zip is uploaded to destination
- Fix: Scheduled tasks cannot be created if user name contains a space
- Fix: Properties window was not displayed completely for large fonts with small resolutions
Changes in Backup4all 4.6.250 (18-04-2011)
- New: Added a Backup4all gadget for Windows Vista and Windows 7
- New: The CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning engine was updated
- New: An exclamation sound is played when the CD/DVD/Blu-ray needs to be changed
- New: New backup tags were added for hour, minute and second
- New: When forcing a shutdown during the backup, you will be notified that "Shutting down will corrupt current backup"
- Fix: Excluding a file from sources lead to removing the entire folder
- Fix: If the upload of a file failed, the retry caused the progress to exceed 100%
- Fix: Clean backup was executed on external drives even if those were disconnected
- Fix: Filters could not be changed from Include to Exclude
- Fix: The application did not start when computer was idle
- Fix: When backing up to a CD/DVD/Blu-ray, the fist execution date was not correctly imported after the second session
- Fix: If "Test after backup" option was not used, the application was still asking for the disk
- Fix: Importing backup jobs in Professional or Standard from Lite was not working
- Fix: "After backup" action was not executed if running from command line
- Fix: The zip name in log error messages was empty in certain situations
- Fix: The log was not open with the selected Log Viewer in all cases
- Fix: In the backup list, the last selected group was not saved after a restart
- Fix: The dot character was not allowed in a tag name
- Fix: The default backup type couldn't be changed in scheduler
Changes in Backup4all 4.5.241 (23-02-2011)
- New: Switching between languages will hide the history
- Update: Environmental variables are for destination folders on FTP/SFTP too
- Fix: Some fixes for backup to FTP and SFTP destinations
Changes in Backup4all 4.5.236(24-01-2011)
- Update: French language update
- Update: When proxy was not available, check for updates stopped but now tries without proxy too
- Fix: Backup jobs were not imported if a job with the same name already existed
- Fix: Some errors fixed when backing up to SFTP
- Fix: Scheduler at system shutdown did not work correctly when the backup settings were set to All Users
- Fix: Changing the scheduler from Main interface to Command line removed the task
Changes in Backup4all 4.5.231(28-10-2010)
- Fix: There was a "permission denied" error when backing up to some SFTP servers
Changes in Backup4all 4.5.230(26-10-2010)
- Fix: Limit number of file versions did not work for FTP/SFTP
- Fix: Canceling backup in Progress View was hanging the process in some cases
Changes in Backup4all 4.5.226 (14-10-2010)
- New: Added "Progress view"
- New: The progress bar contains now more details
- New: New GUI translation added (Finnish)
- New: Scheduled jobs now show an extra icon in the backup list
- New: Added command line parameters for "Difference Viewer"
- New: Added "Active" checkbox for filters
- New: Scheduled tasks can be created via Remote Desktop
- New: Shutdown pop-up notification is shown even if backup is running in background
- New: Repair function from "Control Panel" works even if installed from exe
- Fix: Changing the destination folder name was not updated on FTP
- Fix: Pause during merge was not working properly
- Fix: Brief view was not showing the correct details for new open jobs
- Fix: Backup jobs from CD/DVD cannot be open because of read-only attribute
- Fix: Sheduled backups at 00:00 or 12:00 AM were not correctly listed in Backup view
- Fix: Restore Preview page showed the UTC time, not the local time
- Fix: Shutdown after backup did not work if no user was logged in
- Fix: Standalone scheduler does not run at startup or at logon
- Fix: Command line Access Violation when local catalog was not used
- Fix: CD/DVD was not refreshed after backup
- Fix: User intervention was expected for scheduled groups
- Fix: In some cases, the application did not start at Windows startup
- Fix: Message not clear when the CD/DVD was missing for a scheduled job
Changes in Backup4all 4.4.218 (31-08-2010)
- Fix: Fixed problem with long "Preparing shadow copy" message during the backup
- Fix: Removed false errors during restore of NTFS files with permissions
- Fix: Copy NTFS permissions problem fixed
- Fix: Dll problem fixed for Windows 2000 server
Changes in Backup4all 4.4.214 (30-07-2010)
- Fix: Vscsrv2008 crashes under Windows Vista/7/2008 32 bit.
Changes in Backup4all 4.4.213 (29-06-2010)
- Fix: Temporary files were not deleted during the restore of multiple splits.
- Fix: Scheduled backup at system shutdown was asking for a password in some cases.
- Fix: "Invalid request id" warning when backing up to SFTP.
- Fix: Backup view not expanded correctly in some cases.
- Fix: Cannot open catalog from a mapped drive.
- Fix: Vscsrv.exe crashes under Win XP 64-bit.
- Fix: SQL Server Backup was automatically triggered when using backup open files option.
- Fix: Rename backup jobs from removable drives.
- Fix: Select folder and driver destination does not indicate the specified folder.
- Fix: Job was not renamed after changing the destination from CD to local.
- Fix: "Exclude from backup sources" option does not work for new files.
Changes in Backup4all 4.4.206 (5-05-2010)
- Fix: File/folder icons were not correctly displayed in Explore View.
- Fix: Error while restoring Microsoft Outlook backups to original location.
- Fix: AV when backing up to CD/DVD using command line.
Changes in Backup4all 4.4.194 (2-03-2010)
- Fix: SSL settings were not correctly saved.
- Fix: Some language updates.
Changes in Backup4all 4.4.188 (20-01-2010)
- New: Option added to open backups from specific locations (Local, Network, FTP/SFTP)
- New: Backup jobs can now be moved in the backup list(drag-and-drop)
- New: Test runs after the merge operation too
- Fix: The number of warnings in email notification was not correct
- Fix: Backup4all froze while paused for a longer period of time
- Fix: Mirror backup to CD/DVD/Blu-ray spaning on multiple disks
- Fix: Warning message when cannot open read-only catalog file
- Fix: "Backup all groups" scheduler did not work correctly
- Fix: Restore with problems from "Getting Started" page
- Fix: "Filter by action" under Scheduler page did not work correctly
- Fix: Some fixes when backing up open files
- Fix: AV when backing up to CD/DVD/Blu-ray using command line
- Fix: "Open" and "View with Notepad" options fixed
Changes in Backup4all 4.3.175 (25-11-2009)
- Fix: Hidden scheduled tasks not starting.
- Fix: Deleted or excluded files were restored all the time
- Fix: Notification sounds not reflecting the backup status.
- New: Estonian language was added.
- New: SFTP host keys are also backed up with Backup4all configurations plugin.
Changes in Backup4all 4.3.173 (20-11-2009)
- Fix: Problem when switching between backup limitation options
- Fix: Deleted files were restored all the time
- Fix: "Backup all groups" radio button does not correctly work
- Fix: Sort files after size does not work correctly
- Fix: Backup open files problem fixed
Changes in Backup4all 4.3.168 (5-11-2009)
- New: Backup to SFTP was added
- New: Added a new option that lets you Backup all groups
- New: Option to split files larger than a specific size for FTP backups
- New: Select the scheduler priority
- New: Split the backup according to a number of files/folders
- New: Change the scheduler username and password for multiple jobs
- New: New option to "Store temporary catalog data in memory"
- New: "Minimize to tray when finished" added for backup on demand
- Fix: Pressing Cancel during the Clean operation is not possible anymore
- Fix: "Last Backup" and "Last backup status" from Brief view will be updated even if no files were backed up
- Fix: Cancel backup during catalog upload will not result in a corrupt catalog
- Fix: Test with warnings for Backup4all configurations plugin on Vista
- Fix: Index out of bounds during independent test for mirror
- Fix: Backup4all did not close after run for backups on demand
- Fix: Standalone scheduler fix (was not starting if application was not started)
- Fix: Backup open files on 64-bit OS
- Fix: Desktop.ini file was modified after backup on Windows 2008 R2
- Fix: The scheduled task was not created if switching to another application during setup
- Fix: Incorrect OTB device detection fixed
- Fix: Skipping files from disconnected source drives is faster
- Fix: Restoring file with non-English characters
- Fix: Backup at system shutdown was not turning the computer off
Changes in Backup4all 4.2.156 (28-08-2009)
- Fix: Volume Shadow Copy problems on Windows 2003
- Fix: Some files were not correctly backed up using mirror type
- Fix: Faster actions for large number of versions
- Fix: Command line speed improvements
Changes in Backup4all 4.2.155 (24-08-2009)
- Fix: Volume Shadow Copy problems
- Fix: Microsoft Outlook plugin
- Fix: Faster catalog loading for large number of versions
- Fix: Some tags were not working for Mirror backup
- Fix: Empty folders were not removed from FTP backups
Changes in Backup4all 4.2.154 (12-08-2009)
- New: Bulgarian language was added
- New: Czech language was added
- Fix: Excluded folders were not removed from FTP destinations
- Fix: Test after backup had false warnings in some cases
- Fix: Backup open files fix
- Fix: Backup to CD/DVD/Blu-ray fix
Changes in Backup4all 4.2.153 (7-08-2009)
- Fix: New backup jobs using existing plugins had wrong paths in sources
Changes in Backup4all 4.2.152 (6-08-2009)
- Fix: In certain cases installation would stop with an "Ended Prematurely" error
- Fix: Changing user settings during installation would result in backup jobs not being imported from the previous version
- Fix: Crash when using the Outlook Express or Microsoft Outlook plugin
- Fix: Scheduled jobs would return an AV in particular cases
Changes in Backup4all 4.2.150 (30-07-2009)
- New: Added Unicode filename support (files with non-standard characters can be easily backed up now)
- New: Backup4all is now compatible with 64-bit operating systems too
- New: Environment Variables can be used when defining new filters (e.g. %temp%, %SystemRoot%)
- New: File versions can be compared now
- New: Added "Select columns" option in the right-click menu of the versions section (Explore View)
- New: Added option to select new filetype for log files (.txt is accepted now too, given that .log files cannot be opened on Blackberry devices)
- New: Added option "Remove from sources" when right-clicking a file in Explore View
- New: Added "Run With" and "Job Type" in schedule lists
- New: Added a new button for "Ignore all" during restore
- New: Added message for mirror backups to FTP when splitting large files and there is not enough space in temp (Ftp allows files of max 2GB)
- New: Added notification if the CTM gets corrupted (ask user to reinstall application)
- New: Added an option to force the after backup action execution
- New: Interface now available in French, German, Malay, Portuguese too
- Update: If the notification email has an attachment larger than the sending limit, only the email is sent (without attachment)
- Update: Sources can be modified now even after selecting a Predefined Backup job (this way a backup job can be used as a "template" for future backup jobs)
- Fix: Various fixes for mirror backups (with zip) to removable drives and FTP
- Fix: In particular cases the .bkc got corrupted
- Fix: Fixed an error when using "Create full paths (including drive letter)" option
- Fix: "Destination error" when using the Mirror backup type with a plugin
- Fix: The zip split is adjusted to the destination media even if is set to a larger size
- Fix: SQL errors were showing in some particular cases
- Fix: Some unicode characters were not zipped correctly
- Fix: Cannot use a mapped drive as destination in New Backup Wizard
- Fix: Changing the time zone caused the back up of all files
- Fix: The standalone scheduler was not starting the backup
- Fix: Several Access Violations were fixed
- Fix: Folders were not erased from FTP using "Remove excluded and deleted files" option.
- Fix: Several Access Violations were fixed
- Fix: An invalid task resulted when creating a scheduler to load backup job via command line
- Fix: Multiple files selection was not working correctly
Changes in Backup4all 4.1.139 (13-05-2009)
- New: Files with names up to 255 characters (or special characters such as ;) can be added on CD/DVD/Blu-ray without trimming
- Fix: An AV occured after starting a Backup Group when a backup job was already active
- Fix: Using CD/DVD/Blu-ray destination from command line generated an AV
- Fix: The Merge operation was not using the correct temporary folder
- Fix: Testing mirror to ftp with subfolder prefix did not work
Changes in Backup4all 4.1.138 (8-05-2009)
- New zip prefix: "Backup Day of Week (locale)" - number that takes into account the regional settings
- New zip prefix: "Backup Day of Week (name)" - short name of the day in week
- Fix: Minimum zip split size was not enforced to 512 KB
- Fix: Catalogs were inconsistent after runing cleanup on imported backup jobs
- Fix: Corrected some issues related to spanning backup on multiple DVDs
- Fix: An access violation was triggered in some cases when running mirror with zip
- Fix: Corrected volume shadow copy service issues for jobs using plugins
Changes in Backup4all 4.1.137 (29-04-2009)
- Update: The "Prepare files list" operation was optimized so the backup time is reduced
- Update: Test operation is now faster for large files
- Update: Italian and Spanish languages were updated
Changes in Backup4all 4.1.136 (24-04-2009)
- Update: If the user cannot write to Folder locations paths, the default path will be used.
- Update: Selecting the backup job after changing the CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive letter, displays a wrong message.
- Fix: When backup limit was reached, the zip splits were not always deleted from destination
- Fix: The default installation language was not English if the OS was in another language than English
- Fix: Cleanup action was not working when using command line
- Fix: Changing from Fast mirror to Full mirror was not correctly done in catalog in some cases
- Fix: Sometimes there was a problem when loading an imported catalog
- Fix: Restoring a single file to a different location was recreating the entire path
- Fix: Merge backups was not working for application configurations
- Fix: Some SSL problems fixed for email notifications
- Fix: In Explore View, when right clicking a file version, the "Open" and "Open with Notepad" options did not work
- Fix: Backup was not deleted from catalog after clean if moved from local destination to FTP
Changes in Backup4all 4.1.135 (6-04-2009)
- Fix: Backup to spanned CD/DVD/Blu-ray had a wrong date or the date was missing
- Fix: When restoring a selective file to another location, the entire original file path was added
- Fix: In some cases, importing jobs from version 3 did not add them in the backup list
Changes in Backup4all 4.1.134 (31-03-2009)
- Update: On Vista, the "Code error: 0x8007052E" message is now more explanatory
- Update: Spanish interface language added
- Update: Notification emails are sent without attached log if the file size is too large
- Fix: Reduced Backup4all start time when using network sources
Changes in Backup4all 4.1.133 (26-03-2009)
- Update: Russian language available for the user interface
- Fix: "No argument for format %s" error was displaying for some scheduled backup jobs
Changes in Backup4all 4.1.132 (25-03-2009)
- Update: Scollbar for Language box in Backup Properties
- Update: Improved selective restore from a spanned backup on CD/DVD
- Fix: Uploading files larger than 2GB on FTP using Mirror with zip, did not work
- Fix: Fixed several "Access volation" errors
- Fix: Drive A: and B: were not allowed as a CD/DVD/Blu-ray destination
- Fix: Fixed an error in "Always use temporary folder" for backups to removable drives
- Fix: False error message in the cleanup log when there were no files to clean
- Fix: Standalone scheduler did not start in specific cases
Changes in Backup4all 4.1.131 (20-03-2009)
- Update: Obsolete plugins are detected and removed from the Plugins folder on startup
- Fix: An access denied error was returned when trying to access MyDocuments folder in Vista in some particular cases
- Fix: An access violation was shown when the destination was set to a CD/DVD/Blu-ray without writing capabilities
Changes in Backup4all 4.1.130 (17-03-2009)
- New: Backup to Blu-ray discs and HD-DVD (or from Blu-ray/HD DVD) is now supported
- New: Added support for backing up to dual layer DVDs
- New: Added plugin to backup Microsoft Outlook automatically
- New: Added show excluded file no. and excluded folder no. (in Test/Cleanup window, Backup View, Restore/Choose backup numbers window)
- New: Added text description field for selected filter in Options->Filters
- New: Predefined global filters are added automatically to new backup jobs
- New: Added new predefined splits for Blu-ray and dual layer DVDs
- New: Show text description for selected filter in Options->Filters
- Update: Optimized "Update catalog" process for jobs with many backup numbers
- Update: Before/After actions now allow shortcuts
- Fix: When using mirror with zip, files with long path were not copied
- Fix: "Delete sources after successful backup" did not remove folders from sources
- Fix: ICO images with resolution over 32x32 and alpha blending were not loaded as backup job icons
- Fix: Filters containing absolute paths were ignored
- Fix: Testing a mirror backup (with zip and AES encryption) to FTP returned errors even when successful
- Fix: Timeout while waiting to stop expand
- Fix: In specific cases, "Close after run" was ignored for scheduled groups
- Fix: Disabled schedulers were still executed on Vista
- Fix: Files were not deleted during incremental backups set to keep only 3 versions
- Fix: Use existing FTP configuration in New Backup Wizard
- Fix: "Limit number of backups" and "Merge backups" are now taken into account when backing up to USB flash drives (if the backup is not spanned)
- Fix: Scheduled jobs for other users were available for the current user too
- Fix: Miscelaneous fixes for filters
- Fix: When running a full backup to an external drive, no error was shown in some cases if the drive was disconnected
- Fix: Bandwidth limitation was ignored when set through the Options-Ftp window
- Fix: When using the Merge backups option, files that only have one version and have the status excluded will be deleted
- Fix: Pause during a restore operation was ignored
- Fix: Security password is not enforced when switching from current user to all users
- Fix: Changes to a general predefined filter were not propagated to locked backup jobs using it
- Fix: Changes to a general predefined ftp configuration were not propagated to locked backup jobs using it
- Fix: When cancelling a backup to a removable drive during merge, a temporary folder was kept in the destination
- Fix: Restoring deleted files from a mirror backup wasn't working in certain conditions
- Fix: Too many tests were performed for a spanned back-up to CD/DVD
- Fix: Standalone scheduler was still executed if disabled
- Fix: Importing (from version 3) a backup job based on a plugin was not importing the plugin too
- Fix: Status progress bar inaccuracies when backing up registry files
- Fix: Show only Active jobs filter was not working correctly
- Fix: "Backup4all could not find the locally cached backup catalog for..." error fixed
- Fix: Catalog folder pointed to the wrong folder when reinstalling with different setup options
- Fix: Folder filters when performing a restore were ignored
- Fix: Restoring from an Outlook Express backup was not working correctly if the Windows username was different
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.126 (23-12-2008)
- FIX: Merge problems when using plugins
- FIX: The visualization mode was ignored
- FIX: Filter by date was not correctly working
- FIX: New tags were not inserted in the correct order
- FIX: Test was not correctly performed after a backup to FTP with independent splits
- FIX: Sometimes, after backup, "Format '%s' invalid or incompatible with argument" error was shown.
- FIX: Failure when performing computer shutdown after backup
- UPDATE: Faster "Expand all" in Backup View and Explore View
- UPDATE: Faster catalog update after backup
- UPDATE: Plugins are listed in alphabetical order
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.125 (12-12-2008)
- FIX: SQL error (primary key constraint violation) when removing deleted files from backup
- FIX: In some cases, the new files were not displayed in Explore View.
- FIX: Sometimes the zip was not correctly split on FAT32 hard drives.
- FIX: Independent test was not canceled on removable drive when drive not accesible.
- FIX: SQL error "UPDATE TempVersionDelete SET StartSpan = -1 ..." when deleting backup numbers.
- FIX: Av when creating a new backup job while another backup job is writing a CD\DVD
- FIX: "Backup name" was terminated abnormally. Press OK to reindex the backup catalog
- FIX: Fixed some minor gui errors when using custom dpi (120 dpi)
- UPDATE: Explorer like multiselect handling in Backup View / Explorer View
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.124 (8-12-2008)
- FIX: Restore stops when a file cannot be overwritten
- FIX: Sometimes an AV appears in Backup View after backup is finished
- FIX: "No argument for format ..." error when deleting backup versions
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.123 (5-12-2008)
- FIX: Error when backing up to FTP using XCRC
- FIX: Sometimes an AV appears when loading a job after the backup has finished
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.122 (4-12-2008)
- FIX: The Restore button was not disabled during the backup execution
- FIX: The Standalone scheduler was running even if disabled
- FIX: Restoring the configurations did not add the jobs in the backup list
- FIX: Sometimes the application froze when running a scheduled backup
- FIX: Fixed "Cannot exit aplication when busy" message after running a backup group using shortcut
- FIX: Some files were not restored if using the advanced restore configuration
- UPDATE: Added text box on the Compression page, informing about the encryption feature applicability
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.121 (28-11-2008)
- FEATURE: "Check all"/"Uncheck all" buttons were added to Restore Wizard.
- FIX: "Duplicate Object index" error fixed
- FIX: "Invalid backup numbers specified" error when running the cleanup action with command line
- FIX: "Backup is already running" erorr when running a cleanup from command line
- FIX: Sometimes the application froze when running a scheduled backup
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.120 (21-11-2008)
- FIX: "Zip the files" option from Mirror page was not saved
- FIX: History window was not listing the backup actions
- FIX: Fixed a "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window" error
- FIX: Files were not found because of a double slash in path on some FTP servers
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.119 (18-11-2008)
- FIX: Fixed an AV when choosing an .exe file as a job icon
- FIX: Testing a backup (created using plugins) returned an error if registry keys were missing from the source
- FIX: The Outlook Express plugin didn't work correctly
- FIX: Mirror backup was running slow in some cases
- FIX: Fixed a "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window" error
- FIX: The catalog wasn't removed from the old location when changing the destination folder for an FTP backup
- UPDATE: During open file backup, if a file is not found via the shadow copy volume service, it looks for it directly in the source
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.118 (11-11-2008)
- FIX: Running a shortcut for a backup group using a bat file didn't do anything
- FIX: Group filters were ignored when the backup list was switched to the icon view
- FIX: Fixed a "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window" error occuring in some cases when clicking the calculate statistics button
- FIX: Fixed a "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window" error occuring in some cases when clicking the view log file button from the Logs and history window
- FIX: Fixed "Cannot connect to the FTP server" error occuring when merging files for a backup having FTP as destination
- FIX: Fixed an AV occuring when trying to edit the filter in Backup View
- FIX: "Copy files in a subfolder" option sometimes erase destination folder
- FIX: The "Remove excluded or deleted files from backup" option did not work for the first mirror backup
- UPDATE: Optimized the speed for backup jobs that were created using predefined plugins.
- UPDATE: Modified the merging procedure when using independent zip splits
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.117 (4-11-2008)
- FIX: Fixed SQL error (sqlite_close, database is locked) occuring when a scheduled group backup was executed
- FIX: Command line version didn't unblock the bkc file after backup displaying an error "Catalog file ... does not have a valid signature."
- FIX: Fixed bug occuring when testing a mirror backup to CD (with compression)
- UPDATE: Drastically reduced the time needed to reindex the backup catalog (after a backup terminated abnormally)
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.116 (30-10-2008)
- FIX: The "Allusers" setup command line parameter was ignored
- FIX: When using the merge backups option, the custom split size was not respected
- FIX: Backup to FTP didn't work in certain cases (created an infinite loop)
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.115 (28-10-2008)
- FIX: Fixed AV that occured when finding files (in some particular cases)
- FIX: For a protected backup, the password was corrupted starting with the second backup run
- FIX: Fixed error that occured when backing up to CD without using local catalog
- FIX: Fixed error that occured when backing up to removable drives without using local catalog
- FIX: Fixed "Application seems to be frozen" error
- FIX: File size was different in destination than in source for full, incremental and differential
- UPDATE: Automatically detection and conversion of backup catalog from version 3 to 4 (when needed)
- UPDATE: Added command line parameters for setup
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.114 (22-10-2008)
- FIX: Several Volume Shadow Copy errors occured (.pst file was not always copied in the destination)
- FIX: "Size of file in destination different than in source" error message fixed
- FIX: If the interface was locked and update check enabled at application startup, update didn't work
- FIX: When adding a new scheduled backup job, the windows logged in user was not filled by default
- FIX: "List index out of bounds" error was shown when displaying backup job hint (some specific cases)
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.113 (17-10-2008)
- FIX: Fixed file splitting errors for large backups
- FIX: Import from previous versions didn't work in certain situations
- FIX: Username for SMTP and FTP server configurations was not remembered if it consisted of over 16 characters
- FIX: In certain situations when using mirror backup with "Remove excluded or deleted files from backup", the files were copied to the destination but deleted on completion
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.112 (16-10-2008)
- FIX: The destination drive selection was not remembered when using the New Backup Wizard
- FIX: Test and restore for files with chinese names did not work
- FIX: Backup to FTP did not work correctly for files over 2GB (files were copied each time)
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.111 (14-10-2008)
- FEATURE: Added the possibility to enable/disable automatic weekly updates during setup
- FIX: Fixed AV that occured in some cases when displaying backup job hints
- FIX: Fixed AV triggered by using some specific backup plugins
- FIX: An SQL error was generated when opening some backup jobs
- FIX: Merging backups did not work if the source was on a network location
- FIX: Merging backups did not work after importing a backup job that had merge configured
- FIX: The Restore, Test and Cleanup windows were not displayed correctly on Windows 2000
- FIX: Fixed other AV errors that occured in particular situations
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.110 (9-10-2008)
- FIX: Fixed AV that occured in some cases when using incremental backup
- FIX: Corrected "Not enough disk space" error when backing up to FAT32 formatted destinations
- FIX: Importing backups with plugins didn't work correctly
- FIX: Running backup jobs with plugins
- FIX: Exclude status for filter was not saved
- FIX: Sometimes an SQL error was raised when 2 or more jobs were scheduled at the same time
- FIX: Name of the merged archive did not have the prefix added (when using incremental with merge)
- FIX: After importing from v3, past statistics were wrong
- FIX: Locked status of filter was not saved
- FIX: During backup, connecting to an inexisting mapped drive letter (used as source or destination) returned "Program stopped working" error on Vista
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.108 (30-09-2008)
- FIX: Configurations lost after switching to "All Users" and restarting Backup4all.
- FIX: Multiple filters were not imported correctly.
- FIX: If you started the application from a different user, installed plugins were not available.
- FIX: Slow loading of a backup job on external drive.
- FIX: Statistics are cleared during backup.
- FIX: "Clear archive bit" for folders did not work.
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.107 (26-09-2008)
- FIX: Backup4all did not start on WinXP in Czech language
- FIX: Minor bug fixed when importing from version 3
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.106 (25-09-2008)
- FIX: "One touch backup" did not start the backup
- FIX: Backup to FTP - executing a full after a previous mirror generated an AV
- FIX: "Import from version 3..." didn't work if the Settings folder was redirected in Backup4all 3
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.105 (24-09-2008)
- UPDATE: Added a portable version for Backup4all
- FIX: "Cannot insert file into image" error when backing up to CD without using local catalog.
- FIX: Canceling a backup generated an AV (sometimes).
- FIX: Testing files with limited NTFS permisions generated errors.
- FIX: Cannot add a new filter in Backup Properties when a predefined filter is already defined.
- FIX: Create Shortcut: show a drop-down list with the names of all defined backup groups and backup jobs.
- FIX: Importing jobs from Lite 4 to Professional 4 generates an error.
- FIX: Files greater than 2GB could not be uploaded on FTP (split file error).
- FIX: Explore View/Backup View: after expand all cancel, files in the root folders were duplicated.
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.103 (16-09-2008)
- FEATURE: Added the possibility to see passwords while typing them
- UPDATE: List the file paths from destination in the test log
- UPDATE: Mirror backup: if a source drive is not available (network share, usb stick, ...) then the files from that drive are not excluded from backup
- UPDATE: Scheduler: "Abort backup when network sources are not available" option applies to all types of sources
- FIX: Pause backup during file splitting did not work properly
- FIX: Wrong error message generated when adding the same plugin twice
- FIX: Save the layout of the Backup View
- FIX: Backup execution status was not changed when warnings or errors occurred during Test
- FIX: Bkc file was not deleted from the catalog folder if a job was deleted from interface
- FIX: Legacy comparison criteria didn't work
- FIX: Log folder limit did not work properly
- FIX: Allow commas in the job and group names
- FIX: Check for updates did not run at startup
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.102 (24-08-2008)
- FEATURE: Multiple files/folders can be selected in Sources folder tree in New Backup Wizard and Backup Properties
- FEATURE: Added icon for selected destination and selected backup type in Backup Properties
- FEATURE: New version automatically upgrades existing installation (no need to uninstall first)
- UPDATE: Updated internal CD/DVD burning engine
- UPDATE: Added warning on scheduling with blank passwords
- UPDATE: New backup group is created by default on first run
- UPDATE: Sources tree list resizes with window
- UPDATE: Mouse wheel can be used to scroll Sources tree list
- UPDATE: Defined folder filters now apply to full folder path too
- UPDATE: Plugins used in backup jobs cannot be deleted
- FIX: Fixed creating directory structure on certain FTP servers with specific user rights
- FIX: Backup to CD using UDF works now
- FIX: If backup finished with errors, test will not run
- FIX: Fixed "List index out of bounds" when using predefined backup on FTP
- FIX: Fixed log folder size limit bug
- FIX: Specify destination folder on install
- FIX: User interface corrections for large fonts
Changes in Backup4all 4.0.101 (21-08-2008)
- UPDATE: Main windows will remember their last size and position
- UPDATE: Show a message when the added plugin (*.xml) is not valid
- FIX: Fixed the "Browse" buttons from Default Settings page in the installer
- FIX: Fixed SQL error for differential backups on FTP
- FIX: Fixed drag and drop on the Sources page in Backup Properties window
- FIX: Fixed AV when editing the Backup View filter
- FIX: Fixed tab key order
- FIX: Fixed inserting tags in zip prefix
- FIX: Fixed AV when opening a job with an already existing name
- FIX: Fixed AV when trying to open an non-existing backup icon
- FIX: Fixed list index out of bounds when switching Backup List to Icons view mode


