GRBackPro: Version History
What's New in version 7.0.30?
- Fixed: Folder creation failed when backing up to a UNC path name
folder greater than 258 characters.
- Fixed: If a Task sent an email message with the last backup run
report attached, and an error occurred creating the file (for example,
access denied), then the program crashed.
- Fixed: The Tray Icon bar icon could show the scheduling message and
icon for too long.
- Fixed: When the user selected Exit from the Tray icon there was no
warning about the Scheduler needing to have the program running.
- Fixed: The setup procedure now correctly sets the security on the
GRBackPro data folder.
- Fixed: After first installation if the user had already enabled
automatic software updates then the program asked again if the user
wanted to enable automatic updates.
- Fixed: Reworded "Check all weekdays" to "Check all days" in the
Add/Edit Scheduler Event so that it is clearer that all 7 days will be
checked/unchecked.
- Added: Italian DLL.
- Fixed: Deleting a backup session on the Job tab caused the program
to hang.
- Added: The Open, Read, Create, Write and Not Ready errors have been
enhanced with the addition of an Abort button and a "Disable these error
messages (put errors in log only)" check box.
- Fixed: When using the Split mode with many small files compared to a
few big files then GRBackPro failed to correctly split the folders with
the specified size.
What's New in version 7.0.24?
- Fixed: With access password enabled, when exiting the program
(without entering a password) after clicking on Cancel, you needed to
click the Exit button twice.
- Fixed: When starting "hidden" the program failed to hide itself
completely -- the task bar showed a flashing icon.
- Fixed: Due to a buffer calculation error the program could crash if
handling a corrupted log file.
- Fixed: When converting from version 5 GRB file, the option "On
Manual backup completion do:" was not correctly handled if it had been
disabled.
- Fixed: When the "Execute missed backups" option is active in the
Scheduler tab and a weekly Event is added then it started every day even
if programmed to start on a specified week day only.
- Fixed: Wrong handling of Scheduler Event Monthly when option
"Execute missed backups" is active.
- Fixed: The setup failed to properly assign security attributes to
GRBackPro data folders and in some cases this could lead to losing user
settings or the license code.
- Fixed: The access password was incorrectly saved in the current
backup session settings with the result that if you changed the backup
session the access password became inactive.
- Added: More diagnostic details for the Ask Support feature in the
program.log file.
What's New in version 7.0.18?
- Fixed: The Wizard Job Options dialog, Include / Exclude files option
always included files.
- Fixed: The Wizard Source path dialog option "Include all
sub-folders" didn't show the sub-folders selected when activated.
- Added: In the Wizard Destination path selection the right
click popup menu to create/rename/delete folders.
- Fixed: The Backup button shield icon was not updated when you
changed the backup session.
- Fixed: Bug where if the single zip option was active some
files were backed up repeatedly.
- Fixed: If running as a Service the program failed to download
the Server package update.
- Fixed: When using UNC names in the JobSrc\ option in the
Backup tab, some folders were not correctly backed up to the destination
path.
- Fixed: Option "Delete empty source folders after move" in the
Adv. Backup tab was not yet activated.
- Added: Diagnostic about Backup options in the backup log if
log mode is "Debug".
- Fixed: A file with size zero was not excluded.
- Fixed: "Reparse points" were not skipped when using the single
zip feature.
What's New in version 7.0.13?
- Fixed: The tab control user interface item because it caused a delay
on all operations.
- Fixed: When user press the "Check for Updates" button and there
isn't internet connection the wait dialog simply disappeared instead to
show an error message.
- Fixed: If the Service encountered an error it failed to show the
description and only showed the error number.
- Changed: The "Email Options" dialog now automatically fills in the
"Send To" field with the "Sender Email address" and the "SMTP Server"
with the "Sender Email address" domain name.
- Fixed: If the Scheduler Event called for First Friday of a month it
failed to calculate the correct next start date.
- Fixed: The log resize algorithm that caused log file corruption in
certain cases.
- Fixed: Removed spurious entry in the log when a Verify operation is
performed.
- Fixed: Version 6 scheduled weekly and daily events were not being
converted correctly to Version 7 format.
- Fixed: Somtetimes the taskbar icon was not correct after a backup
completed.
What's New in version 7.0.10?
- Fixed: If destination drive is not ready and GRBackPro is running
attended then the Error message would loop forever if the user did not
press the Cancel button. A maximum of 10 loops has been added then the
retry loop is automatically closed.
- Fixed: On some installations the program failed to retain the user
license and even the user settings.
- Fixed: Single zip archive bug generated a recursive folder name
appended to the destination path while adding files.
- Fixed: When the single zip archive option is enabled the program
failed to skip files.
- Added: When a backup is started by the Scheduler all error messages
now have a timeout of 10 seconds.
- Fixed: Possible problem running as a Service if the Terminal
Services are not yet started.
- Fixed: The message box that asks if the user wants to enable
automatic updates was automatically closed if GRBackPro was starting
hidden.
- Changed: The Libraries are no longer listed in the folder tree
because they do not have a direct corresponding path name meaning that
selecting them is not meaningful.
What's New in version 7.0.7?
- Fixed: Crash bug if error happens when trying to compress the log
file in the Ask Support feature
- Fixed: Scheduling error handling the weekly event recur parameter.
- Fixed: Removed Crash Test button from the Options tab
- Fixed: Selecting a long destination path resulted in a wrong path if
the Add/Edit Job dialog was small.
- Fixed: When restoring and "copying all files" the program didn't
restore any file. It only created the folders.
- Fixed: When updating the software on Windows Server it downloaded
the Workstation package.
What's New in version 7.0.4?
- New customizable look and feel
- Windows 7 security full support
- REQUIRES minimum Windows XP or Windows Server 2003
- Separated Workstation and Server editions
- Server edition can run as a Service
- Zip64 archive format with unicode file names support
- Unicode file names supported when copying
- New Tasks tab
- New Task to end a process
- Windows Volume Shadow Copy support
- Long path names supported up to 1024 characters
- New Scheduler completely rewritten with more options
- Automatic software updater
- Added new move option to delete empty folders after move
- Added option to execute at windows start in the Options tab
- New error messages with automatic retry capability
What's New in version 6.6.274?
- Fixed: The setup failed to properly assign security attributes to
GRBackPro data folders and in some cases this could lead to losing user
settings or the license code.
- Fixed: The access password was incorrectly saved in the current
backup session settings with the result that if you changed the backup
session the access password became inactive.
What's New in version 6.6.272?
- Changed: Limited version 6.x to run only on Windows XP or lower Windows version for
compatibility issues.
- Fixed: The tab control user interface item caused a
delay on all operations.
What's New in version 6.6.270?
- Fixed: When a crash happens the Crash Report utility can delete user
files such as the license and settings files.
- Fixed: The Tray Icon bar menu option "Backup and Shutdown
Windows" failed to start the backup if a Scheduler event to backup at
shutdown didn't exist. Now the backup will start even if there are no
Scheduler events.
- Fixed: Too long path names could cause program crash in some
cases.
- Fixed: Split mode when files big than 2GB are handled.
- Fixed: Setup procedure on Windows Vista.
- Fixed: License retention problems on Windows Vista.
- Fixed: Bug in Scheduler Repeat every hour first time
execution.
- Fixed: When a disk full condition was reached and the user
had selected the Stop option then the program failed to stop and continued to
ask.
- Fixed: License is not kept on the full program version under
Windows Vista.
- Added: Conversion from Unicode GRB file to ANSI to support
GRBackPro version 7 compatibility.
What's New in version 6.6.244?
- Fixed: When the user changed the log file path name it did not
change until the next run.
- Fixed: If the log file path didn't exists the program failed
to create it.
- Added: Program.log entry when the user enabled the "Move"
option.
- Fixed: Potential problem with a corrupted log file.
- Fixed: If the program is running as a Service and the user
doesn't specify a login this is no longer considered an error in the
backup execution. The event is indicated in the log as an information
warning.
- Added: Program.log entries during logon when running as a
Service
- Fixed: When running as a Service and executing a Verify
operation then the option "At End do" is enabled while it should remain
disabled.
- Added: More diagnostics on File Read Errors.
- Fixed: On the Adv. Backup tab, if you set an option and then
click on the tasks Edit... button then your current settings are lost
and you have to re-enter them.
- Fixed: Files with date older than 1-1-1980 got backed up
repeatedly.
- Fixed: Executing a program after the backup would apparently
hang the program. It was waiting for the program completion before
proceeding.
- Fixed: Bug in the Restore Single file explorer window
- Changed: The Crash Report utility has been improved and tries
now to send the report directly to our mailbox without using any
customer email program. If it fails then it tries to send the email
message using the default email program registered into the system.
What's New in version 6.6.224?
- Fixed: On the Add/Edit Job dialog selecting a virtual folder results
in an empty Job source path.
- Fixed: When the Move option is active the program also deleted
the empty source folders.
- Fixed: Temporary folder error when using an additional folder
(destination path layout).
- Fixed: Copy error = 0 while backing up the registry.
- Fixed: Stack out of memory problem with deep folder
structures.
What's New in version 6.6.210?
- Fixed: When running as a Service, the Temp path was erroneously set
to the Service login user profile directory.
- Fixed: When changing the display color scheme the Job, Report
and Progress tab didn't update the background color.
- Fixed: On the backup tab if you set the Destination path
layout first combo box and then exit the program, when you run it again
you have lost your setting.
- Fixed: Using the Ask Support dialog if something goes wrong
with connecting to the SMTP server then the program didn't allowed to
exit from the dialog as the Cancel button and the X button were
disabled.
What's New in version 6.6.199?
- Fixed: Command line parameter /? tried to open the old .hlp file
instead of the new .chm file.
- Changed: If running as a Service the help button was disabled.
Now it is enabled and when pressed it will display a message box that
tells you: "Please access the help file from the Start menu".
- Fixed: A bug with the temporary zip archive created in the
destination disk when the Temp path option is empty.
- Fixed: Error: while creating temporary file on: \_GRB000
What's New in version 6.6.195?
- Fixed: Full backup mode delete destination disk. The program missed
to delete multiple destination path if on the same destination drive.
- Fixed: Bug in split mode. Some files were not included in the
backup zip archives.
- Fixed: If the program is installed as a Service it was
possible to execute a second program instance using the same .grb file.
- Fixed: Upon updating a zip archive the zip file archive bit
attribute was not set.
- Added: Message Box when the user enable the "move" option
because this is an unsafe option.
- Added: More log details during restore operations.
- Fixed: If the specified temp path (Backup tab) doesn't exists
the program forgot to create it and issued an error message.
- Fixed: On the Backup tab when you change the first combo box
and then you change another option you lost the first change.
- Fixed: The verify after the backup had the icon animation
turned off.
- Changed: If running with a Windows Server license, the Icon
Tray menu no more shows the option to "Backup and shutdown windows".
- Fixed: The service log file GRSrv.log had wrong timestamp
date.
- Fixed: When a backup is aborted and no errors occurred since
the abort button pressing then the program executed the "At end do"
action.
- Fixed: When running as a Service, the option "At backup
completion do" also named "At end do" in the progress tab is disabled
and forced to "Do nothing".
- Fixed: The Add/Edit Job dialog open time has been speed up.
- Fixed: Problem displaying the icons in the Add/Edit job dialog
under Windows Vista if running as a Service.
- Fixed: Under Vista when a backup is running the other tabs are
now drawn as disabled text.
- Fixed: When aborting the Verify procedure the program shown
the Aborted message box twice.
What's New in version 6.6.155?
- Added: Crash Report feature to easy the user report of program crashes.
- Fixed: Crash when pressing the Job tab "Add Job" button on some Windows Vista installations.
- Fixed: "Single Files" restore feature didn't shown the zip archive files in the left tree view.
- Fixed: Existing splitted zip archives update when the new zip archive size is greater than 2GB.
- Fixed: Restore Single Files - when a zip password is defined.
- Fixed: "Single Files" restore feature didn't shown the zip archive files in the left tree view if Windows Explorer has the option "Disable know extensions" enabled.
- Fixed: Verify and the option "Unhide while backing up" was enabled then the main program window went hidden after the verify completed.
- Fixed: Certain file names containing characters whole ascii code was over 128 could lead to crashes when included in zip archives.
- Fixed: When backup simulation is active and backup mode is FULL then GRBackPro skipped the delete of the previous backup.
- Fixed: On certain cases the full backup do not delete the destination folder contents only but the root disk. This bug could cause data loss!
- Fixed: "Clear archive bit attribute on restored files" option on the Restore tab didn't work correctly.
- Fixed: Folder created during Restore did not restore the original folder attributes.
- Fixed: Execute Tasks feature. When executing an application the program didn't wait its completion.
- Fixed: When you have created a multiple zip archive (.z01, .z02 and .zip for example) and then you remove all source files and synchronization is enabled then the program failed to delete the .z01, .z02. It only deleted the .zip archive.
- Added: When backup mode is Full and a Job source folder is empty then the corresponding destination folder is not deleted preserving a previous backup set.
- Added: Email options button on the Ask support dialog to easily change email settings before to send email to support.
What's New in version 6.6.115?
- Fixed: Error converting a registry stored license to a license file.
- Fixed: The Restore Explorer window was not defined as child of
the main window.
- Fixed: Some problems with the setup procedure. In particular
under Windows Vista the program had difficulties storing the program
settings and the log file.
What's New in version 6.6.111?
- Fixed: Report tab Log display bug
- Fixed: Log file went slightly corrupted when the size limit is
reached and the log file needs to be resized.
- Fixed: When running as a Service and entering the license
sometimes it was not saved correctly.
- Fixed: When the Split mode is active and the registry is
backed up to the destination disk it create a Disk_XX folder instead of
the proper disk number.
- Fixed: When the Split mode is active and the registry is backed up
to the destination disk and the split size was less then the registry
required space the program issue an error and didn't correctly backup
the registry.
- Fixed: Under Windows Vista: the registry backup generated and
error.
- Fixed: Under Windows Vista: having more than one backup to
execute at Windows shutdown the program only executed the first one.
- Added: New menu selection from the Tray icon bar to "Backup
and Shut Down Windows". This option will execute all backup sessions
that have a scheduler event programmed to run at Windows Shutdown and
then at completion it will shown a dialog to allow the user to decide if
logoff, restart or shutdown the Computer.
- Fixed: When a Task email the latest log report and this report
is very big (more than available memory for example) then the program
take a lot of time in order to be able to send the email message because
it wanted to load all the log into the memory. Now this has been changed
so that the report is created on a temporary file and then this file is
read line by line while sending by email.
- Fixed: When running as a Service under Windows Vista and no
Temp path was specified in the Backup tab then the destination disk zip
archive were not created.
What's New in version 6.6.70?
- Fixed: some problems in the Demo version.
- Fixed: File names inside zip archives with characters over
ASCII 128 (for example European characters) were not correctly
converted.
- Fixed: Possible problem that can lead to lose the GRBakPro.grb file
(your backup settings).
- Fixed: If the "Attended backup" options was disabled GRBackPro
didn't execute the after backup Tasks.
- Fixed: Renamed option "Skip empty source folders" to "Delete empty
destination folders" in the Adv. Backup tab.
- Changed: The registry backup reports in the Progress tab the source
file instead of the destination one.
- Updated: Setup to conform to Windows XP and Windows Vista standards.
What's New in version 6.6.60?
- Changed: The file time compare has now a 2 seconds dead zone to
compensate the file systems that doesn't allows even times (for example
the LaCie network drives).
- Fixed: When a license was never entered on the full program
version, it failed asking to enter the license data but ended the program
instead.
- Updated: SMTP email sending engine for minor problems.
- Fixed: Bug on the Registry backup when reaching the Bak99 folder.
- Fixed: Problem on the Registry backup when running as a
service and backing up to a network drive.
- Fixed: Registry backup on local folder do not properly
followed the right sequence after reaching the Bak99 folder name.
- Added: Command line options /QL and /QLE to force program quit
and logoff at backup completion (the E version even in presence of
backup errors).
- Fixed: Bug handling the log file that in certain cases seems
to disappear from the Report tab.
- Fixed: Some problems using Terminal Services to access
GRBackPro running as a Service.
- Fixed: The option "Warn if a backup was executed more than <n>
days ago" was erroneously based on the last scheduled time. Thus if
backups are manually executed then the test failed.
- Fixed: The Verify operation erroneously taken into account the
Restore source folder defined in the Restore tab.
- Changed: The log report line reporting excluded files has been
enhanced adding file size, date and time and attributes.
- Fixed: Problem when hiding the program and the current tab was
Report. On un-hiding the report log was no more shown.
- Fixed: Tips on the Report tab has been automatically wrapped
to make long lines completely visible.
- Fixed: When the program run the first time after installation
and you resized the main window then the other tab's window were not
resized.
- Fixed: When starting an application after the backup is
completed, if the application doesn't terminate then the program hung
waiting for termination.
- Fixed: When shutting down, the program failed to detect a disabled
scheduler event and erroneously stopped the shutdown sequence.
What's New in version 6.6.25?
- Added: Additional diagnostic messages in the log file (only in
Debug log mode).
- Fixed: On some tabs the wait cursor was not always
correctly shown.
- Fixed: Disk volume label was changed on hard disk when a
disk full condition was reached. Now the program verify that the
destination drive is removable or Cd-rom.
- Fixed: Problem with missed backup on Weekly Events.
- Added: String into the log file to indicate if a backup was
executed manually or by the scheduler
- Fixed: When a Job didn't have the "Include sub-folder" option
enabled and no new or changed files where present in the source
folder then the program failed to indicate this in the Progress tab.
"No files were found" message was displayed instead of "No new or
changed files were found".
- Changed: When the zip file size overcomes the 2GB size and it is
automatically splitted or when the Split option is active then the
zip archive is moved to the destination disk as soon as it is
completed instead to remain in the temporary folder till the whole
zip archive is completed. This reduces the temporary folder free
space requirements.
- Fixed: When using the "Autostart" option in the Scheduler and
you press the Disable button to disable the Event then scheduler
kept trying to start the Event again and again till the Stop button
is pressed.
- Changed: The scheduler has been mainly changed and reviewed in
its inner working in preparation for some feature additions.
- Fixed: The $backup.skp file was no more correctly handled.
- Added: Other then the $backup zip archive file name and its
variations we have added other variants because on some file systems
the $ is a not allowed character.
What's New in version 6.6.10?
What's New in version 6.6.0?
- Fixed: The file $backup.skp was not correctly handled.
- Fixed: When a manual backup was completed and an error had occurred the program did not perform the specified action even if the "Prompt if any error..." option in the Options tab is not enabled. Now if this option is disabled the action is executed even if there are errors.
- Fixed: When executing a Task and the program tries to START a service that is already started an error message erroneously appears.
- Fixed: When changing the Backup Session, sometimes, the program crashes.
- Added: When restoring with copy file (i.e. without decompressing) the destination file date and time is made equal to the source file date and time.
- Added: New option in Options tab: "Ignore 1 hour time delay on file compare (NTFS daylight fix)". This option solves the NTFS one hour file time difference when daylight saving is enabled. When using Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, it's possible to use two file systems, FAT32 or NTFS. While FAT32 stores the local time of files, NTFS stores the GMT (English standard time) of the files. When going from Summer (daylight saving) time to Winter (normal) time, the local timestamps on FAT32 will remain the same, while files on NTFS drives will have the time changed by 1 hour because the time zone difference to GMT changes by one hour. Therefore files on FAT32 and NTFS drives which had identical times before the time change will suddenly be different. Thanks to this new option, the files can still be detected as dentical if time difference between them is exactly one hour.
- Updated: Language translations.
- Fixed: There were the possibility to select an empty destination path either with the Browse button that manually editing it. This could cause unexpected behavior.
- Fixed: When the option "Move files to the destination folder (delete source)" was enabled the source empty folders were not deleted.
- Added: Backup summary and error list in the body of the email message sent using the "Execute Tasks" function.
- Fixed: Verify and Restore error "Insufficient memory to inflate" when handling big files.
- Added: Restore and Verify memory usage has been greatly reduced and the execution speed has been increased.
- Added: Running as a Service under Vista, Terminal Services and XP switched users will now see the icon in the tray icon bar. As the program is now always visible by the currently logged in user then the initial message box asking to stop the service has been removed. If the program is lunched after the Service is running then the Service running copy will be opened and the second copy of the program terminated. If a command line grb file is specified, instead, a second copy of the program is allowed because it works on a different configuration.
- Added: When the Verify after the Backup is enabled and exists a Task that emails the last report log the program attaches two separate files: one for the backup and one for the verify operation.
- Added: To the Restore - Single Files - Restore Explorer windows a progress control and the handling of the abort of the restore operation when clicking on the X.
- Added: Program internal log file that is named Program.log. This file details internal operations and possible problems. This will help a lot and speed up the user assistance in case of problems.
- Added: It is now possible to enable the tooltips when running as a Service. Previously they were not compatible with a Service. The help button remain disabled because the help file fails to launch when running as a Service.
What's New in version 6.5.50?
- Fixed: When copying File Security Attributes, normal attributes were not copied correctly if running as a Service.
- Fixed: Access password Hints edit box. A long description can now automatically wrap and also text lines scroll down.
- Added: More diagnostic when copying NTFS security attributes (Previous version didn't show the correct error when copy NTFS files to FAT32 disks).
- Added: Completed Dutch translation.
- Added: Preliminary Sweden translation.
What's New in version 6.5.35?
- Fixed: The "Operation activities" list in the Report dialog didn't allow correct scrolling using the vertical scroll bar.
- Fixed: When the backup is running the About and Pause buttons are less responsive.
- Fixed: When running as a Service the program failed to backup the registry.
- Fixed: Folder Security Attributes were not correctly restored.
- Fixed: Buffer overflow bug in log reporting.
- Added: The number of errors at the end of the log.
What's New in version 6.5.20?
- Fixed: The "Single files" button in the Restore dialog failed to correctly login when running as a Service.
- Fixed: German version - the "Set Dest." button didn't works.
- Fixed: Under Windows 98 the "At backup end do" combo box didn't list some available options.
- Fixed: The password in the "Service Options" of the Adv. Backup tab can be empty now.
- Added: A Reset button on the Scheduler tab in order to allows the reset of the "Last Executed backup time". This reset can be elpful when the scheduler do not start at specified time because a sufficient time window is not passed.
What's New in version 6.5.0?
- Fixed: When both the "Move files to the destination folder (delete source)" option and the "Build a single zip archive with stored path names" were active then the program failed to delete the source files and folders.
- Fixed: When a disk full condition was reached and you elected to STOP the backup then the destination disk label was changed anyway.
- Changed: When the verify after backup option was active then the Tasks after the backup were executed after the verification instead of after the backup execution.
- Fixed: When the zip archive file name post string was not blank (for example was <nn>) then the registry backup failed to build the correct zip file name.
- Fixed: When a long file was being verified and the user pressed the Abort button then the program waited too long before stopping the operation.
- Fixed: When a disk full condition was reached and the user stopped the backup then an extra error message was displayed.
- Fixed: On FAT and FAT32 destination disks, files were continuously copied in incremental mode.
- Fixed: When copying a file and a disk full condition happened the program continued asking if you wanted to stop the backup.
- Added: Backup Wizard button on the Job tab. This new button will guide the user on the backup setup in an easiest way. The Wizard button takes the place of the Print button. The print function has been moved into the Job list popup menu (right click on the Job list to see it).
- Added: The Add/Edit Job dialog is now resizable. The modified size is stored in the ini file.
- Added: Program access password.
- Fixed: When a folder was locked by Windows security settings the program wouldn't issue any error.
- Fixed: When a file was locked by another application and the user decided to abort the backup, then the program wouldn't execute the post backup tasks.
- Added: When the program tries to send out an email message and an error occurs then it now ask if you want to retry or not.
- Fixed: The scheduler event monthly failed to start the backup on day 31.
- Fixed: Small problem on the grip resize icon on high DPI display.
- Fixed: On the "Before / After Backup Options" dialog when a Task is moved up or down it failed to stop at top and bottom resulting in a Task modification.
- Fixed: When using the zip password protection and a zip archive was updated to add a new file, then the zip archive got corrupted.
- Added: When a zip archive password change is detected then a message box is displayed in order to suggest that you perform a full backup so that all files into the zip archive will have the same password.
- Added: Enabled backup execution at shutdown under Windows Vista.
- Fixed: On the verify or restore procedure the program missed to ask for a password is password protection was enabled but a password was not defined.
- Fixed: An error while deleting and moving the Before or After backup tasks.
- Fixed: The scheduler event repeat every month sometimes failed to start the backup (for example on November).
What's New in version 6.4.15?
- Fixed: On the Options tab the buttons: "Email Options" and "Email To Support" moved when you resize the program main window.
- Fixed: The first combo box of the "Destination path layout" option in the Backup tab were not restored at program startup.
- Fixed: On FAT and FAT32 destination disks, when the Daylight saving become active then a full backup always taken place.
- Fixed: If running as a service when editing the Source or Destination path name of a backup Job, using the Job list popup menu, the program failed to login as specified in the Adv. Backup tab.
- Fixed: Memory allocation problem.
- Fixed: The <nn> option in the zip file name no more worked.
- Fixed: When copy only (compression disabled) and the destination disk went full the program failed to display the "change disk" dialog and created a destination file of size zero.
- Fixed: Progress Dialog icon loading problems under Windows 2000.
What's New in version 6.4.2?
- Fixed: A missing file close prevented to modify source files when a backup with compression disabled was executed.
What's New in version 6.4.0?
- Fixed: The verify button didn't works if the backup Job has the option to "copy only".
- Fixed: The "Move files to the destination folder" option no more works in copy only mode.
- Fixed: The Start and Stop service Task missed a required access right and thus start and stop failed on some services.
- Changed: The ask support dialog has now the text that automatically wrap instead of horizontally scrolling.
- Fixed: The first combo box of the "Destination Path Layout" option in the Backup tab didn't update the item that display the backup Session name.
- Added: Three command line options:
/DR - disable the restore confirmation dialog (the one you get when you press the Restore button).
/DSY - disable restore file delete dialog when synchronization is on and answer Yes to all delete confirmation requests so that all files will be automatically deleted in the restore destination folder.
/DSN - disable restore file delete dialog when synchronization is on and answer No to all delete confirmation requests so that NO files will be deleted in the restore destination folder.
- Added: An option to disable the Taskbar Notifier window.
- Fixed: When the backup completes the GRBackPro window gained the focus (if hidden) causing problem if you were typing.
- Changed: Improved the tray icon bar tooltip text.
- Changed: Improved the Tabs visual look, under Windows XP and Vista, when the tab is disabled.
- Fixed: Bug while setting the file attributes on the source file in "Archive bit" backup mode.
- Fixed: Bug while skipping files when the single zip archive option was enabled.
- Fixed: Bug on the single zip archive option.
- Fixed: Bug on Full backup when there were listed more Jobs with different source disk or computer and the Bak_sd option were selected. GRBackPro only delete the first Job tree from the destination disk.
- Fixed: Bug on Windows 98 when backing up the root of a disk.
- Added: Increased Windows Vista compatibility.
- Fixed: On some systems when the program start the Report Search for Text dialog appeared.
- Fixed: When a backup Session was duplicated then the "Execute Tasks" options were not duplicated.
- Fixed: When a backup was started by the Scheduler the option "At backup end do" could be not properly read and executed.
- Fixed: When copying files if GRBackPro update a file it overestimate the required free space and issue a disk full message.
- Fixed: Scheduler monthly backup start time no more shown the month.
- Fixed: added two missing tool tips in the Options tab.
- Fixed: the About dialog didn't shown the translation (always International Edition).
- Fixed: When the Daylight saving become active then a full backup taken place.
- Fixed: In full backup mode the option "clear source file archive bit attribute" was not executed if the file were not backed up.
- Fixed: Bug in the splash screen under Windows XP Home.
- Fixed: Bug on backup Verify when the compression was disabled at Job level. The Verify didn't take place.
- Fixed: Buffer overflow on Windows Vista.
- Added: Buttons for Create, Delete, Rename a folder in the destination disk on the Add / Edit Job dialog.
- Fixed: Some special characters in the file name where not correctly handled in zip archives.
What's New in version 6.3.10?
- Fixed: When the backup was done on a different file system disk, or using a different language locale Windows, the Restore failed to handle file time and date correctly and thus it restored more files than expected.
- Fixed: When compression was disabled GRBackPro failed to clear the source file archive attribute.
What's New in version 6.3.7?
- Fixed: Synchronization option bug.
- Fixed: Registry backup bug.
- Fixed: Possible Taskbar notifier division by zero.
- Fixed: When the "At end do" is set to Quit the task bar icon doesn't disappear at program exit.
- Fixed: Set / Get File attribute problem with backup method = "Archive bit".
- Fixed: language DLL have been reviewed and some missing strings have been added.
What's New in version 6.3.0?
- Fixed: Windows Home is now correctly detected in the Report dialog log.
- Fixed: The "Email options" dialog shows the Password in plain text.
- Fixed: When the user select to disable the "JobSrc" option in the Backup tab, Destination path layout, forth combo box, then GRBackPro failed to add to the destination folder path the sub-folders path name so that all source files were backed up to the same destination folder.
- Added: When a folder doesn't contains files, now GRBackPro correctly indicate this into the Progress tab.
- Fixed: On some scheduled events, if the backup duration is under 1-3 minutes the backup can start twice.
- Changed: New icons have been placed in the Progress tab list control.
- Fixed: If the Scheduler autostart delay values was near or over 60 seconds a double backup was executed.
- Fixed: Within the 5 minutes time slot of the backup start the "Scheduler will start the next backup at:" displayed value was empty or wrong.
- Added: A new option in the Scheduler tab that allows you to disable or enable the wake-up feature.
- Added: two new option on the "On manual backup completion do" option. They are Suspend and Hibernate.
- Changed: The "On manual backup completion do" check box option has been removed. The option is always active now and the combo box selection is grown with the options: Suspend, Hibernate, Hide, UnHide and Do Nothing. The Do Nothing selection let you disable this option. If the old "On manual backup completion do" check box is disabled then the "Do Nothing" option is automatically selected in order to have a complete compatibility with all previous versions.
- Added: the new option "At backup completion do" has been duplicated in the Progress tab in order to allow you to change it on the fly while the backup is executing. The option is the same to the one that appears on the Adv. Backup tab ... it is only replicated here. This option is disabled in the Progress tab is a Restore or Verify operation is under execution.
- Fixed: With certain log file corruptions the program hangs at backup start.
- Added: A new taskbar notifier window that appear when the backup or restore or verify is completed.
- Added: Packet write software is now identified into the log. Currently are recognizer Sonic DLA and Nero InCD.
- Changed: The option "Build a single zip archive with stored path names" has been simplified. The two additional options available before has been removed and now the program will always store full path names inside the zip archive. Previous options were sometime difficult to understand and explain and very few users, if any, were adopting the "relative path" option.
What's New in version 6.2.0?
- Fixed: With the "Differential backup" method a file was backed up twice because the archive attribute bit was taken into account during the file compare phase.
- Fixed: When you started a second copy of GRBackPro and the GRBackPro Service was already running you got a message box that asked you if you wanted to stop the service or not. When you stopped the service the new copy of the program still had the Service Options disabled. This was a problem if you administrate a server using Windows Terminal Services.
- Fixed: When you selected the destination path layout Split mode in the backup dialog, then GRBackPro didn’t update the backup method correctly (the only allowable is the Full mode).
- Fixed: Pressing the Compare button twice in quick sequence didn’t create any log for the second and successive times.
- Fixed: In Split mode there was an endless loop when the split size was less than the file size.
- Fixed: In Split mode the restore/compare failed.
- Added: Enabled the option "Verify archives or files after backup completion" even in Split mode.
- Changed: The split size can be written directly into the edit box instead of clicking the arrows only.
- Added: In the Destination path layout first combo box (at bottom), there are four new options that concatenate the current Session name with the current date in the four formats: DMY, MDY, YDM and YMD.
- Added: Column widths in the Job tab are now saved and restored.
- Added: Column widths in the Progress tab are now saved and restored.
- Fixed: In History mode when the folder number reached 99, the backup always went to folder Hist_01 without increments.
- Added: button "Email Options" in the Options tab. From this new dialog you can set up all the email options. The options SMTP Server and Sender Email address have been moved here from the options tab.
- Added: new Email options:
- SMTP server log in methods: None, Cram MD5, Auth Log in, Plain
- SMTP User name and password - SMTP Port number
- Added: A "Send Email Test" button in the Email Options dialog. Pressing this button lets you send a test email message to verify that your email settings are correct and thus future email messages can be delivered to the specified destination.
- Changed: The splash screen has been centered to the program window instead of the desktop.
- Changed: renamed button Compare to Verify because GRBackPro doesn't actually compare the source files against the backed-up files but only verify the backup archives for file integrity (readability).
What's New in version 6.1.0?
- Fixed: When a scheduled event defined a backup every day with the current day enabled, and the start time is past the current time, then GRBakPro incorrectly reported the next backup start time.
- Fixed: Daily and Weekly scheduling subtle bugs
- Added: The program resize grip has been made similar to the Office 2003 one.
- Fixed: The file $backup.skp was not handled correctly.
- Fixed: Error while setting file attributes on a root drive letter.
What's New in version 6.0.60?
- Fixed: When using the zip password, and the backup verify is enabled, GRBackPro asks for the password instead of simply using the backup password.
- Updated: Tips of the Days.
- Fixed: Scheduler Monthly.
- Fixed: Scheduler Weekly.
- Fixed: If the backup execution time is under 5 minutes, the scheduler can start the backup two or more times.
- Fixed: Zip compressor fails when files to be compressed are already compressed better than zip can do.
- Fixed: The progress tab Elapsed time restarts from zero after each message box or program Pause.
What's New in version 6.0.50?
- Fixed: Windows XP look was lost due to a typo error on the program resource file.
What's New in version 6.0.47?
- Fixed: License recognition problem under Windows NT Server.
- Fixed: Tips of the Day dialog caused an error message under Windows NT because it requires IE4.
- Fixed: Backing up big folders so that GRBackPro splits the archive into 2GB pieces sometime caused the loss of the final $backup.zip file.
- Fixed: Backup simulation indicated invalid values when backing up folders larger than 2GB.
- Fixed: Error when adding a Task after the backup has been executed.
- Fixed: In Full backup mode, with the Bak_sd option enabled, GRBackPro wanted to delete the root disk.
- Fixed: In presence of a corrupted log file GRBackPro hung at backup start.
- Fixed: When running in Split mode the program hangs at the first disk change.
- Fixed: When scheduling daily, and less then 2 days passed since the last backup time, then the missed backup options do not start the ackup.
What's New in version 6.0.37?
- Fixed: Sometimes when you press the Backup button the program displays the Progress tab and then freezes.
- Added: The compression engine can now be quickly aborted. Previously you had to wait the current operation completion.
- Added: The log now shows the skipped file names.
- Fixed: The Registry backup was missing the required Security Privileges.
- Changed: The progress bar has been set to the Windows one so that XP Themes work better. The completion percentage that was shown in the bar itself has been moved after the elapsed time.
- Fixed: Under the Backup tab. When you change the backup Method, then the first combo box of the Destination path layout option does not change to reflect the new selected backup Method.
- Fixed: Under Windows NT a message box indicating that the "SetThreadExecutionState" is not supported appeared.
- Fixed: When there were path names longer than 256 bytes the Zip compressor generate program crashed.
- Fixed: When copying files whose size is more than 2GB, then the program asked for a new disk in the destination drive even if this drive had sufficient available free space.
- Fixed: The scheduled backup didn't automatically start at specified point for certain repeat modes.
- Fixed: When the log file was corrupted the program sometimes hung after starting a backup or by going into the Report tab.
What's New in version 6.0.22?
- Fixed: The JobSrc option, when disabled, did not add any sub-folder name to the destination path so that all sub-folders are flattered into the same destination folder.
- Fixed: If you were logged in without Administrator rights, the program failed to read the license information from the registry and thus the program refused to start asked you for a license.
- Fixed: When you ran a backup that created a report that exceeded the specified log file threshold, then the log file size was not automatically reduced on the next backup run but you needed to execute two backup run instead.
- Fixed: Scheduler start times were sometime imprecise.
- Fixed: An error message appeared when you try to back up a file whose size was greater than 2GB even if the backup completed correctly without any error or problem.
- Added: On the Job tab now you can select one or more backup Jobs and then click on the right mouse button to display the popup menu that allows you to "Backup selected Job(s)" or Restore them.
- Fixed: When using the Split function with size over 4GB, GRBackPro didn't correctly calculate the disk size.
- Fixed: When using the Split function and the destination disk was near the specified disk threshold and GRBackPro needed to back up a file whose size was greater than 2GB it failed to correctly satisfy the specified split size.
What's New in version 6.0.14?
- Fixed: GRBackPro failed to verify the license when just entered and sometimes never recognized it, particularly for Server licenses.
- Fixed: The setup tried to install to the GRBackPro6 folder instead of installing over the old version folder.
- Fixed: Restore synchronization failed to change the destination folder name when you had more than one Job.
- Fixed: When the backup was running with compression enabled and you hit the Abort button, sometimes the program displayed an additional "File Copy" error.
- Fixed: For certain licenses the program crashed when you hit the About button.
What's New in version 6.0.0?
A lot of new features have been added in this version! Here is a brief list:
- Backup Verify facility
- Include file option to include all files, files older or younger than a specified number of days
- Simulate backup execution to precisely estimate the backup size and tests for errors
- Registry backup history
- Backup history
- Backup user specified destination size split
- Automatic destination split for zip archives that try to grow over the 2Gb limit
- Service options have been moved at backup session level
- Backup security attributes on NTFS file systems
- Execute task function, before and / or after the backup, that allows you to:
- execute an application
- close an application
- start or stop a service
- pause
- email a message (with attached the log file)
- display a message box
- Restore single files
- Enhanced scheduler
- Log file can be saved in a specified location
- Report dialog faster to display
- Search on Report facility
- The program execution priority can be changed while the backup is running
- If you have any problem, you can easily email to our support staff from inside the program.
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