AISBackup: Version History 2.8 to Date.

Changes in version 2.8

AISBackup Version 2.8 Build 368 (9 March 2010)
Build 368 9 March 2010 3.24 MB (3,401,800 bytes)

Fixes:

• Server 2008 only (all versions): Microsoft includes the Active Directory in the list of files not to backup, this has been removed from the exclusions to enable the active directory to be backed up. This problem did not affect Server 2000 or Server 2003 (All versions).
• When restoring more than one drive at the same time if one of the drives included Windows Vista or Windows 7 the restore would fail. The restore worked if the drives were restored individually.
• Direct to CD / DVD Backup: discs can now me formatted on 64-bit system's from the load media form.

Changes:

• Microsoft Do Not Backup List: It has been made possible to attempt to backup the files in Microsoft's list of files not to backup. See the Manage Backup / Modify Files and Folders List / Exclusions Tab / Remove Microsoft Exclusions and the Backup Microsoft Exclusions check box.
• If a backup is password protected the password must be given when opening the job with Tools / Open Job From Backup Media.

AISBackup Version 2.8 Build 367 (23  February 2010)
3.24 MB (3,400,080 bytes).

Fixes:

• The New Job option to external drive did not work correctly.
• For AISBackup Network Management users where the management path is password protected it was possible for AISBackup to ask for a password at the same time that the splash start-up screen was displayed resulting in AISBackup becoming non-operational and requiring a shut-down via Task Manager.
• The open file dialogue may not have shown after making a new backup job on 64-bit system's.
• The Load Disc /Format button has been fixed on 64 bit Windows, this button is used to format UDF CD's and DVD's.

Changes:

• New job has been updated to reduce the risk of backing up to the root of a network drive in error, and using a malformed backup filename (actually a blank filename causing the backup files to be called _###.zip). It is however still possible (by design) to backup to the root of a network drive.

AISBackup Build 366 Version 2.8 (16 February 2010)
3.24 MB (3,398,536 bytes).

Fixes:

• During restore new folders created in previously backed up empty folders would not be made candidates for deletion.
• Jobs list sort by date of last backup did not work if invalid dates were found in the list.
• fixed: During Restore it was possible for AISBackup to report a problem writing to a Canvas.

Changes:

• Files from specific fuzzy matched folders may be excluded, for example to exclude Google Earth Cache files, which by default are in the following files:
  
  Windows XP
  C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\GoogleEarth\dbCache.dat
  C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\GoogleEarth\dbCache.dat.index
  
  Windows Vista & Windows 7
  C:\Users\Username\AppData\LocalLow\Google\GoogleEarth\dbCache.dat
  C:\Users\Username\AppData\LocalLow\Google\GoogleEarth\dbCache.dat.index
  
  There may be other files called dbCache.dat that we do not want to exclude from the backup, so to specify the exclusion only for Google Earth enter:
  
  *\Google\GoogleEarth\dbCache*.*
  
  This is interpreted as any filename starting with dbCache that is in any folder whose name ends with \Google\GoogleEarth\.
• After several requests the number of external drives that a backup job can use has been increased from 3 to several, there is no defined upper limit except for networked drives where the limit is 9. Now you can have a backup disk for each day of the week if you wish (or even more).
• Folder security settings and other meta data is now retained and restored if the folder does not pre-exist on the PC and an early backup session is selected for restore. Previously the security information from the last backup was restored.
• The e-mail set-up can retrieve SMTP settings from more e-mail system's.
• The Manage Backup / Validate (Test) Backup option for FTP jobs where the backup is also retained on the local PC may be set to test the FTP copy of the backup.
• The AISbackup set-up program may be optionally added to the AISBackup ret sore CD to make a dual functioning Set-up / Recovery CD.
• It is now possible to delete the destination files prior to running the copy phase of a copy job. Only candidates for deletion are actually deleted and not the whole destination folder.
• The pre and post job parameter list has been expanded and it is now possible to generate a prototype post run batch job.
  

AISBackup Build 361 Version 2.8  (11 November 2009)
Builds 349 to 359 were internal test versions.
3.19 MB (3,347,592 bytes).

Fixes:

• The Unicode index held in the backup zip files could overflow; this would lead to restore test errors.
• Various updates to meta data style backup.
• AISBackup may not have started on some PC's owing to a problem with interfacing with some disk interfaces.

Changes: