Version History

09/13/2007 version 10.14.5

Fixed: Deleting on the server took a long time and would cause the client to think that the client software crashed. It is now instant.
Fixed: Ability to specify any type of file to run for the "before/after" backup commands (Before it was only .exe).
Fixed: Better status given when enumerating files so that the GUI does not look like it is hung.
Fixed: Client hang fix when the client was waiting for a response from the server in some cases.
Fixed: Multiple inserts was sometimes causing version id not found errors.
Fixed: FTP crash on some backups.

09/05/2007 version 10.14.2

Fixed: Password field not auto filling for network machines
Fixed: Uninstall not removing certain folders
Fixed: Adding an end user checks the customer quota
Fixed: Install over writes the log location preference
Added:: ability to schedule a database dump
Fixed: Install over writes the log location preference
Clean up: Removed unused options
Optimization: Restore would be slow if a file was in use
Changed: FTPS allows different ports
Fixed: FTP backup file selections didn't stick
Fixed: Files that weren't backed up didn't show in email report
Added Feature: Server Side/Client Side: server auto updates client
Fixed: Blank screen would appear on server selection screen
Optimization: SQL 2000 over a network
Fixed: Deleting a version and startbackup.exe gives error
Fixed: Exchange domain backup would fail if not auth specified
Fixed: Running system setup wizard twice would give error
Fixed: Blank error when modifying a schedule
Fixed: Invalid character error for UNIX ftp backups
Fixed: Surgemail would add extra spacing in email field
Fixed: Invalid Argument error
Optimization: Autohealer
Fixed: Passwords not saved when closing client
Fixed: Setting passwords at the workgroup level
Optimization: To avoid potential hangups
Optimization: Startbackup.exe writes to HD instead of RAM

12/19/2006 version 10.9.82

Added: Block Level option added to Backups. Checked by default. This will no longer store your backups on your local Hard Drive! Only available on new created schedules.
Added: New task scheduler not based on the windows task scheduler.  The new scheduler gives us the ability to run backups even if the user doesn’t enter a username/password.
Added: Conversion utility inside the installer to convert old windows task schedules to the new format.
Added: When creating a scheduled backup, it will now ask you YES or NO if you would like to runt he backup.
Added: Correct processing of exceptions in ExchangeBackupDLL
Added: Network speed optimizations for LAN loading.  A connection is only made to LAN computers when you are editing a profile for the computers that have files to backup in them.  You can manually press the connect button to specify files in other LAN computers.
Added: When right clicking on the manual container, you can now select Add network computer.  It will allow you to manually add a computer.
Added: Settings directory in application data folder.  All settings will be stored here in the future.  This is to better support Windows Vista.
Added: Network is now stored in a settings file.  These settings get loaded instantly when running new backups after the first one, and when editing backups.
Added: Menu on the main startup dialog.
Added: Ability to remove computers from the tree.  If for example a computer that used to be on your network that is no longer there.  Since all computers are saved it will be displayed.  You can remove it now manually.
Changed: Combined trial and full version builds
Changed: Small GUI text change -> When running a saved backup it said to press the Next button, when it should have said Finish button.
Changed: Manual activation button will now be enabled by default as soon as you go to activation screen
Changed: Once in activation screen can click on the text to manually activate and it will send you to the manual activation page.
Changed: Error message 25045 was changed to: "Activation not entered, or trial has expired. (Error #25045)"
Changed: Email subject changes.  Ability to set variables for the subject name
Changed: Installer now remembers last installed path
Changed: New SFTP DLL was inserted
Fixed: PFA restore, select only 1 file, it would continue to read until the end of the archive.
Fixed: Ability to detect unlimited LAN computers. Before it was limited to what could fit in a 16KB buffer.
Fixed: Activation problem on foreign language computers.
Fixed: Now give proper error message if help files could not be opened.  For example if they were manually deleted.
Fixed: Now properly display the version number in the about screen

Bit level changes:
Added: Speed optimization, support for multiple data connections simultaneously
Added: Speed optimization, support encryption and compression in seperate threads
Added: Support for CRC calculations in seperate threads
Added: Large initial backup support for bit level backups.  Can set maximum time for backups to run.  Backup will continue where it left off the next time it runs if a maximum time expires.
Added: calculating CRC and SHA in separate threads
Added: When cancel backup is pressed, it will ask you if you would like to continue the backup next time.
Changed: Renamed file echoservers.eho to BitLevelServers.blf
Fixed: If there is no backup with this backup id when bit level backup, then create a new backup_set and rewrite backup id.
Fixed: Problem with noop thread.
Fixed: Wrong respond on reconnect for bit level backups.
Fixed: When restoring for bit level server backups, all advanced options will now work.

11/20/2006 version 10.9.74

Added: (Bit level backups) Ability to perform large initial backups spanned over multiple backups. Can now set a time limit for your backups. If the backup isn't finished within that time, the backup continues where it left off the last time. If you cancel the backup at anytime, it will now ask you if you want to continue where you left off.
Changed: (Bit level backups) Renamed file echoservers.eho to BitLevelServers.blf
Fixed: (Bit level backukps) If there is no backup with this backup id when bit level backup is run, then a new backup_set id is written.
Fixed: (Bit level backups) Problem with noop thread. There was a message "Wrong respond". This also fixes hanging on backups on some computers.
Fixed: Ability to detect unlimited LAN computers. Before it was limited to what could fit in a 16KB buffer.
Fixed: (Bit level backups) When you click cancel on bit level backup and select that you do not want to continue this backup the next time, there was no reports. Now it is create one.
Fixed: When cancel button was pressed, it would sometimes give a wrong respond error.
Fixed: Problem with the cancel button. Sometimes there was an error "File corrupted context:write failed E:/BitLevelBackup/files/ad8b8d7a-f6ad-41bb-b112-c0f30ace2fe2"
Fixed: Bug related to database function which sometimes selected the wrong server when 2 server versions were running.

11/5/2006 version 10.9.64

Changed: Socket model of bit level client was changed. Instead of blocking sockets, it is now using async communication.
Changed: Socket operations are reset if they are too long. Before a kill connection occurs, it will now detect if the server is still alive.
Fixed: Problem with & in file name or in folder name. Also included fixes with & if there is a name of container or computer.
Fixed: When editing a bit level backup, it didn't re-select the server that was used initially.
Fixed: Problem with keeping only 1 version on bit level backups. In this case, the client will always do a full version of the file.
Fixed: Logout from bit level server now occurs properly after a test connection.

10/18/2006 version 10.9.58

Added: Checkbox to create a shortcut on the desktop for all types of backups. You can find it at the first window for both scheduled and non scheduled backups.
Added: When on edit screen, if you double click on profile it now edit that profile.
Added: New Backup information:
At the end of a backup, in window, it now tells you:
- The total number of bytes that was transferred to the server.
- The total number of bytes that was backed up.
- The number of files transferred to the server.
- The number of files backed up.
- The number of files that had byte level patches performed on them.
This is only related to echo backups, not PFA.
Added: ExMerge modification. Now you can select in the Preferences to leave PST files after restore or to delete them.
Added: For bit level backups, ability to have advanced versioning, where the base file is merged so that a new full backup of a file never needs to be completed.
Changed: "Total size restored" replace to "Current location in backup"
Fixed: When you do a scheduled backups and select create shortcut it made a shortcut with an empty name.
Fixed: Correct message "There is nothing files to backup".
Fixed: Software does not backup folders with the & symbol in it. The problem was in save to xml. For files it works.
Fixed: Problem with error "The error could not be determined.boost::filesystem::last_write_time:
"D:\System Volume Information\tracking.log": Access is denied.". It appears when the file locked on

9/26/2006 version 10.9.54

Fixed: Timeout on getting response from server has been reduced to one minute from 5.
Fixed: An error with a crash in StartBackup when you select local computer and one of the network computers, when there is a backup of the local computer, and one of the files on the local computer could not be backed up because it was locked, then a crash occurred.
Fixed: Error with file was not prepared in upload folder.
Fixed: Problem with hang of StartBackup while backup to echo and before adding to local storage. There was a very long iteration after transferring. Optimized and increased speed. Now it works very fast.
Fixed: Problem with duplicate keys in database (error was "Unrecognized data base error". See error context.context:ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "version_fileinfo_id_pkey")
Fixed: Selection would disappear (in edit schedule) when selecting files that were locked.
Fixed: Problem when you doing a backup from for example user 1 and passw 1 and changing this to user 2 and passw 2.  It will now create a new backup set in this situation.
Fixed: Error when doing a backup to Bit Level Server and after transferring some of the files, the file became locked before adding it to local storage. In this result the backup fails.
Fixed: Bug with total files progress.

9/1/2006 version 10.9.50

Added: Windows authentication for SQL backups
Added: Calculate CRC and SHA only when modify date is changed
Added: After an installation, subsequent installations now go to the old installation location
Fixed: Would sometimes crash when it could not backup all files.
Fixed: Problem with incremental and differential backups. It would always backup all files.
Changed: Minor fixes in plugin model.

8/10/2006 version 10.9.44

Changed: Minor fixes to COM interfaces to allow for more plug-ins.
Changed: Got rid of a message box that comes up with a warning after backups

8/3/2006 version 10.9.42.32

Changed: New DVDCDLib.
Fixed: Edit profiles was not showing selection from files on LAN computers.

7/19/2006 version 10.9.38.31

Fixed: When doing the hierarchical file transfer over SFTP it would appends data to existing files.
Fixed: Various handle and resource leaks.
Fixed: With big backup profiles, there was a crash sometimes when editing a schedule.
Fixed: Problem with FTP reconnection. Sometimes it appended the wrong data (especially when the connection was lost for a long period of time).
Fixed: Crash with deleted files when you editing schedule.
Fixed: Sometimes crashed in StartBackup while doing data verification and sending information to the html report.
Fixed: Fixed a crash when editing schedule in calculating the backup size.
Changed: New SFTPDll.dll library for work with SFTP servers.
Changed: Rewrote delete backups functionality.
Changed: Rebuilt the synchronization in the tree view.

6/28/2006 version 10.9.34

Added: Byte Level Backup Engine
Fixed: When doing the hierarchical file transfer over SFTP it would appends data to existing files. Fixed: Various handle and resource leaks.
Fixed: With big backup profiles, there was a crash sometimes when editing a schedule.
Fixed: Problem with FTP reconnection. Sometimes it appended the wrong data (especially when the connection was lost for a long time).
Changed: New SFTPDll.dll library for work with SFTP servers.
Changed: Rewrote delete backups functionality.

6/6/2006 version 10.9.30

Added: Encrypted password for windows schedule.
Added: Add version number installed into the txt log file, xml logs, html reports, and outgoing email reports: for each backup.
Fix: Start Backup sometimes would stays open when a backup has completed
Fix: If you have a folder open with US DataVault Backup Pro in the title and try to start US DataVault Backup Pro Software, it would think that US DataVault Backup Pro is running and it would give you an error that US DataVault Backup Pro is already running.
Fix: When upgrading by re-installing it would say cannot write libxml.
Fix: Removed all memory leaks using FTP, SFTP. Removed all memory leaks in StartBackup.
Fix: If you selected an exchange brick-level backup, and then entered the server name, and then clicked twice on the Next button it would sometimes crash.
Fix: If you selected a search location to restore and selected FTP/SFTP it would not always list all files of the backup
Fix: Not always listing tree of SFTP if you selected to edit the schedule.
Changed: If you select an exchange brick-level backup and after enter server name, then click Next, it will now loads mailboxes in another thread and it will immediatelly go to the select mailboxes page.

5/26/2006 version 10.9.28

- Added: Friendly FTP names for when adding an FTP location.
- Added: When you're editing a profile it now display the name of the profile.
- Fix: Various memory leaks while saving and opening backup profiles (fixed incorrect usage of libxml2.dll).
- Fix: If you first did an exchange or exchange brick-level backup and later without closing vision backup, you did a file backup, it would go to exchange by default.
- Fix: Shell extension (right clicking on a file or directory) didn't always work properly
- Changed: New SFTP library with several bug fixes Fixed: Bug with ShellExtension. If you typed a profile name that didn't exist, it would crash explorer.

5/12/2006 version 10.9.24

- Added: When editing, the text for loading profile display now in color.
- Added: When editing, the Next button is now disable until profile is done loading.
- Fix: String "The tape was unloacked and unloaded successfully" replace to "The tape was unlocked and unloaded successfully".
- Fix: Bug with DAT drives.
- Fix: About box was not showing if you go to system menu.
- Fix: Crashes with SQL and exchange backups.
- Fix: Wrong temp location when you specify it in general preferences. It would always append VB to the folder name.
- Fix: When creating a backup profile to DVD without erase option set, then start the backup without a disk in the drive it just fail without prompting you.
- Fix: Some memory leaks in VisionsBackup and StartBackup were fixed.
- Changed: Software update web service. It now shows release notes

5/5/2006 version 10.9.20

- Added: Bug reports.
- Fix: Sometimes crash after click "Finish" on backup now Wizard if there were mapped drives.
- Fix: When you press the radio button to disable(enable) compression, it would keep both radio buttons checked.
- Fix: Relating to CD/DVD restore. On the screen where it asks for the location of the PFA file, if you accept the pre-filled selection if it is correct (i.e. E:\), or choose another drive from the drop-down, or manually type in a drive, it will fail with the error "You must enter the location of the PFA file".
- Fix: Hang when creating a backup profile to DVD with the Erase option set, than starting the backup without a disk in the drive.

4/29/2006 version 10.9.18

- Feature: Check for new version will now be made and will notify user if there is a new version on program startup automatically.
- Feature: Added a Cancel button to cancel the backup job.
- Feature: When restoring from a known backup, added a CD/DVD option. It work the same as the Hard drive option.
- Feature: Plug-in framework re-written from scratch. Can now create plug-ins in any COM enabled language.
- Feature: Installed plug-ins will show up as checkboxes under computers. User can check off any plug-in.
- Feature: Created directories and files plug-in (must be downloaded separately)
- Feature: Created my desktop and files plug-in (included in US DataVault Backup Pro builds)
- Feature: Created web browser bookmarks plug-in (included in US DataVault Backup Pro builds)
- Feature: Created Email client mailboxes plug-in (included inUS DataVault Backup Pro builds)
- Feature: To StartBackup information about trial version.  Schedules won't be able to run after the trial has expired.
- Fix: Changed string "Please select the tape drive to backup to" on "Search location to restore from" to "Please select the tape drive to restore from".
- Fix: When you select the DVD option on "Search location to restore from" it will now say: "Please select the drive letter of your DVD/CD burner".
- Fix: Any time you create a profile, and you create it for CD/DVD. When you go to edit the profile, the selection media will always go back to hard drive/Zip drive. This has been fixed.
- Fix: Could not burn DVD+RW at all because it didn't think the disc was writable.
- Fix: Could not burn DVD-RW without first erasing them.
- Fix: When you selected the wrong burner, went to run the backup, and get the messagebox about "Please insert a writable disk", you can click OK in that error box infinitely, but it just keeps reappearing.
- Fix: Problem with restore backups that was crypted(the restore operation did not finished).
- Fix: The Request messagebox says press OK, but there is no OK button(there is Retry button). Change string on it to "The disc is not writable, please insert a DVD/CD and press Retry to start burning."
- Fix: GUI fix, restore from cd/dvd no longer shows erase dvd checkbox
- Fix: Fixed issue with backups of single files that are larger than 4GB.
- Fix: Incremental backup restores information fixed
- Fix: Information to running backups added for when trial expires
- Fix: Sometimes in Scheduling window the password was being saved wrong on edits
- Fix: Changed log folder from LogPath to Logs
- Fix: Problem with doing scheduled backup weekly and monthly. Program didn't check if you selected the day of the week or one of the months.
- Fix: Scheduled window password had wrong string sometimes.
- Fix: Bug with mis-aligned filenames in the PFA file due to the size of the file being written, and the actual data being written being different.
- Fix: Some minor restore GUI issues.
- Fix for “delete options”
- Changed: On screen with selection of what to backup, when you are editing a schedule, but it has not loaded yet: it was showing: [Computer Name Static], this was changed to displaying nothing after Name: [Status], this was change to display nothing after Status:
- Changed: We now display a message above the text Network computers that says "Loading backup profile, please wait:".
- Changed: When restoring, if from a PFA file on CD/DVD. Sometimes it will give the error "Could not open archive". Now it says "Could not open archive, please open and close your burner tray and try again."
- Changed: String "Update my expire date" to "update my expiry date".

3/20/2006 version 10.9.4

- Fix: Problem with Remote Computers in tree view when the base path is something different than /.
- Fix: Fixed edit problem with saving schedules for schedules that are
edited more than twice

3/17/2006 version 10.9.2

- Added: SQL Backups directly to all media is now supported
- Added: Exchange full backups directly to all media is now supported
- Added: Exchange mailbox backups directly to all media is now supported
- Change: All backups will now be performed inside the PFA file. Before exchange and SQL would get created separately.
- Change: Re-created all wizards to be more consistent and have cleaner code. All GUI functionality will now be more stable.
- Fix: Fixed problem with log file sometimes not getting created effecting incremental backups
- Fix: Error with the detection of CD/DVD burning drives on computers that had 8+ drives and a CD/DVD was in spot 8 or more
- Fix: Problem with log file path: When you go into the vision Backup Preferences and change the log file path in the general settings. Close the program and re-open it and it will have returned to the original path.
- Change: initializing tape drive could sometimes take hours depending on the tape size because it always tried to determine the number of headers on the tape. Since the format of the tape for N archives on a single tape is [header 1] [data 1] [footer 1] ... [header N] [data N] [footer N], it would have to seek past very long data for to get to the next header. Every time the tape was initialized it would go to the start of each header. Most backups though put a single large backup per tape. Which means that most of the time you don't need to seek past the entire data block. We now check to see if the first header has a matching name to the file we want to restore, and if so we don't seek past the header.
- Fix: Fixed bug when restoring from a tape drive on a searched location, it didn't always find the backups on tape. Depending on the tape drive number that was searched.
- Fix: Fixed tape initialization problem on some profiles
- Fix: When tape is full it would crash instead of issuing an error message to the client, this has been fixed
- Fix: Some tape write operations would sometimes fail because the tape drive reported a device IO error. Error trapping has been added to handle this so that the data on tape will not get corrupted.
- Fix: Fixed display problem with some files not being displayed in restore screen for compressed backups > 4GB in size
- Fix: Fixed sometimes 2 computers load in tree
- Fix: Fixed problem with access to FTPSFTP log file Change: Message for include exchange server dll path to environment variables

2/22/2006 version 10.8.44

- Fix: Backups, though successful, may not show up in the restore from known locations window

2/15/2006 version 10.8.42 - Update (version is the same but bugs have been fixed)

- Fix: Incrementals were doing full backups instead backing up only files that had been added or changed
- Fix: When doing an Exchange server backup, even though all mailboxes were selected, only 3 would be backed up

2/10/2006 version 10.8.42

- Fix: File delete issues with Iomega Rev Drives where it couldn't find backup file if correct disk wasn't inserted
- Update: Full rewrite of FTP/FTPS/SFTP reconnect feature to make it 100% more stable with every connection

2/8/2006 version 10.8.40

- Added a step when restoring from a known location to confirm the media to restore from.
- Fix: Was not always showing all mailboxes while backup using Exchange Brick-level
- Fix: FTP and SFTP reconnect dialog was not showing
- Added Now display detailed notifications to the backup window when deleting old backups about which files were deleted and if any failed
to delete.
- Fix: Remove backups older than bugfix for SFTP.

2/1/2006 version 10.8.36

- Fix: Hangs if restore over SFTP.
- Fix: Problem with incremental backups if there is an ampersand in the profile name.
- Fix: Problem with notification after restore over FTP.
- Fix: You cannot edit brick level profile if you create a schedule brick level backup.
- Fix: Crash when in edit backup schedules delete all profiles.
- Add: SFTP reconnect feature if connection lost.
- Added Now display detailed notifications to the backup window when deleting old backups about which files were deleted and if any failed to delete.
- Fix: Remove backups older than bugfix for SFTP.

1/24/2006 version 10.8.30

- Add: Added new icons. Improved description drawing on main dialog.
- Add: Convert new icons to 24BPP. Turn on by default "Do not use index file for restore" option.

1/20/2006 version 10.8.28

- Add: Select mailboxes for Exchange Brick-level Backup

1/18/2006 version 10.8.26

- Fix: Fix always SUCCES after Exchange Brick-Level Backup
- Add: Message about Environment variables for Exchange Brick-Level Backup

1/17/2006 version 10.8.24

-Fix: While backup or restore problem with allocate memory in gzio.c. Removed memory leaks on Lan detection and backup operation.
-Fix: Lan backup failure. In version 10.8.14 backup operation failed. After we fixed memory leaks and allocated memory in gzio.c
-Fix: Removed memory leaks in create new schedule pages.
-Fix: Lan backup fails. Added reconnect dialog while fails backup or restore operation from Lan.
-Add: Reconnect dialog on restore and verification operations.
-Add: FTP server incremental backups.
-Fixed: Exchange cleanup options were not being set properly
-Fixed: Schedules not running on 2003 server if not logged in

1/14/2006 version 10.8.22

- Add: Exchange Brick-level backup support.