Tri-BACKUP 6.2.1 - Changelog

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 6.2.1:

March 16th, 2012

Enhancements:
· Various minor enhancements and interface changes.

Corrections:
· Fixed an issue generating error messages when copying files already opened by another application.
· Various minor corrections.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 6.2.0:

March 15th, 2012

· Mountain Lion (BETA): Version 6.2.0 is compatible with Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8 beta version).

Enhancements:
· Add an option to create a pause (from 1 to 3600 seconds) before or after the execution of a programmed action (in the Before/After panel).
· Various minor enhancements and interface changes.

Corrections:
· Fixed an issue with actions scheduled weekly at shut down.
· Fixed some issues due to changes in Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8 beta version).
· Various minor corrections.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 6.1.1:

February 28th, 2012

Enhancements:
· Add rename mode in the Immediate Modify action.
· Various minor enhancements and interface changes.

Corrections:
· Fixed a false detection of the GUID partition scheme on a disk protected by FileVault (issue due to a change appeared in Mac OS X 10.7.3).
· Fixed an issue with a FTP Backup programmed action, that created an empty folder at the root of the destination when the source items are set to be copied at the root of the destination.
· Programmed Delete actions no more delete the root folder.
· Various minor corrections.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 6.1.0:

February 10th, 2012

Enhancements:
· Added a new action (Create MagicProfile) to create a profile (preview) of the contents of a folder or disk. A MagicProfile is similar to a Copy Folder action, except that the files are empty. This results in a very small copy that can be used to compare the contents at different times, or to synchronize two remote disks (unconnected).
· Added a new action (Sync with MagicProfile) to easily synchronize two disks that are not physically accessible at the same time.
· Adding a new synchronization mode that compares the changes since the last synchronization (an item that is added, deleted or modified on one side will be added, deleted, modified to the other side).
· Added an option in Tri-BACKUP Scheduler's Preferences to keep the list of pending actions remained in the queue at shut down (actions not yet executed). By default, they are kept.
· Various minor enhancements and interface changes.

Corrections:
· Various minor corrections.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 6.0.4:

December 16th, 2011

Enhancements:
· Added an alert window if errors occur when executing the programmed actions.
· When creating a new Programmed Action for bootable copy, allows to define later the destination.
· When editing a Programmed Action, allows to save the settings of the action even if source or destination is not defined.
· Editor of programmed actions is now resizable.
· Now allows to define a port in the server name field for FTP backups (for example IP:port).
· Windows in Scheduler are no more top floating windows.
· Progress window: If this window is visible at the end of an action, it will be reopened on next actions.
· Various minor enhancements and interface changes.

Corrections:
· Fixed an issue where the schedule time was not saved properly when choosing a daily execution.
· Fixed an issue while defining the shortcut in Scheduler Preferences under Lion.
· Fixed an issue with FTP backups, when the server login or password has special characters.
· Fixed an issue (when in demo mode and under Lion) that could randomly quit Tri-BACKUP.
· Various minor corrections.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 6.0.3:

November 7th, 2011

Enhancements:
· Added manual sorting of the list of Programmed actions.
· Various minor enhancements and interface changes.

Corrections:
· Fixed an issue of erroneous displaying when the source or destination disk is not mounted while editing a Bootable Copy action.
· Various minor corrections.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 6.0.2:

October 24th, 2011

Enhancements:
· Added lock/unlock options in Immediate Modify action.
· Added an indicator (red dot) for "Execute with admin privileges" in the list of Programmed actions.
· Can automount connected (but unmounted) disks needed for the execution of an action.
· Various minor enhancements and interface changes.

Corrections:
· Fixed an issue generating errors when copying files to FTP server.
· Fixed an issue which indicated false errors when executing Immediate Delete action.
· Fixed an issue that did correctly save some backup options (under the list of sources) in the programmed actions editor.
· Fixed an issue that did not open the password dialog in the programmed actions editor.
· Fixed an issue with the shutdown option (under Lion).
· Various minor corrections.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 6.0.1:

September 28th, 2011

Enhancements:
· Added an option in Bootable Copy actions to keep data already existing at the root of the destination disk.
· Added options in Incremental Backup actions to keep a constant number of backups and delete the oldest beyond this number (in addition of the option to delete backups after a certain period).
· Added an option in Immediate Uncompress action to repair the Type and Creator OS9 attributes (files compressed by old versions of Tri-BACKUP).

Corrections:
· Fixed an issue when deleting an item in Immediate Synchro mode.
· Fixed an issue preventing the execution of FTP programmed actions in demo mode.
· Fixed an issue that could not correctly copy items with a "/" in the name.
· Programmed Delete actions no more delete the root folder.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 6.0.0:

September 17th, 2011

General:
· 
Completely redesigned interface.

· Programmed Actions:

· Simplified creation of the programmed actions.

· New Action: Copy bootable disk.

· Ability to check immediately, during its creation, what will be done.

· Ability to estimate the size of backed up data (simulation of the execution of the action, with calculation of the space to be occupied and eventually released by an update).

· Display the list of programmed actions that are created with filtering and sorting options.

· Scheduling programmed actions:

· Added the notion of context: a context can be assigned to each action and by modifying the execution context depending on where one is for example with a laptop -, the user can have some actions to be launched only when at the office or at home (available contexte: Office, Home and Mobile, and anywhere).

· Immediate Actions:

· New display options.

· Filters and settings identical to those of programmed actions.

· Immediate action can be set with all the settings of a programmed action.

· Analyze features to get an idea of what the action will do (without having to launch a real execution).

· Preview file contents (QuickLook).

· Restoration:

· Direct restoration of data backed up by a specific programmed action.

· Search when and where was made the last backup of a particular folder, and restore from this backup.
· Restore from an Evolutive Backup.

· Restore from Time Machine backups (with all the filtering options available to restore only the desired items).

· Restoration in immediate mode to verify and see exactly what needs to be restored.

· Tools:

· Display of the general state of the application and its process.

· Tool disk state, history of executions and daily reports.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.3.3:

September 1st, 2011

· Fixed an issue with the confirmation when a large folder needs to be deleted.
· Fixed minor issues.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.3.2:

September 1st, 2011

· Fixed an issue that displayed a message when relaunching the Scheduler.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.3.1:

August 22nd, 2011

· Various minor corrections for Lion compatibility.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.3.0:

July 25th, 2011

· Modified for Mac OS X Lion compatibility.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.2.8:

June 30th, 2010

· Fixed an issue when deleting compressed files.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.2.7:

May 3rd, 2010

Enhancements:
· Various improvements.

Corrections:
· Fixed an exception issue.
· Various minor corrections.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.2.6:

March 29th, 2010

Enhancements:
· English and French localization corrections.
· Various improvements.

Corrections:
· Various minor corrections.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.2.5:

February 22nd, 2010

Enhancements:
· Add an option to allow partial backup when source items are not all available.

Corrections:
· Various minor corrections.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.2.4:

December 14th, 2009

· Corrections: Fixed a time out interruption that could appear with large files copied from/to slow devices under the latest versions of Snow Leopard.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.2.3:

October 28th, 2009

· Added daily reports, and the possibility to send a daily report by email.
· Automatic backups of the list of programmed action (to import previous settings, or recover settings from another machine or after a crash).
· Show a message when the automatic scheduling is activated or deactivated.
· Evolutive folder (containing evolutive data) has a new name: "__(fBACKUP.Evolutive.folder**)" instead of " (BACKUP.Evolutive.folder**)". This allows these folders to be copied to FTP servers and remote servers having a System that does not accept "exotic" characters.
· Added a delayed disabling function (in the Scheduler menu) to disable the automatic scheduling after all actions in the queue are done.
· Various improvements.
· No more check for updates if the option is unchecked in Preferences.
· Fixed an issue with files directly added in the list of items for an Incremental Programmed Action. They are now copied only if they were modified since the last backup (if this option is checked on).
· Various minor corrections.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.2.2:

October 13th, 2009

Enhancements:
· Now list the items not found when alerting that items are missing in the package.

Corrections:
· Fixed a problem with icons drawing in Tri-BACKUP windows.
· Fixed a problem with errors reported while no error did happen (with aliases).

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.2.1:

September 21st, 2009

· Fixed a problem with icons drawing in Tri-BACKUP windows.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.2.0:

September 11th, 2009

Enhancements:
· Snow Leopard compatible.
· Add a function to globally change the reference to a volume for all programmed actions using this volume (in case of change of disk or of the name of a volume).

Corrections:
· Fixed a problem with Snow Leopard that could cause the System to ask an administrator password when programmed actions are executed.
· Fixed a problem that could crash the execution of an action when displaying a dialog at the end of the action.
· Fixed a problem that could incorrectly display the icon of volume or folder in the action's editor.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.1.5:

June 3rd, 2009

Enhancements:
· Allow to launch an alias with the link function "Launch a file, script or application".

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.1.4:

January 31st, 2009

· Alert if multiple versions of Tri-BACKUP are running at the same time on the same Mac.
· Add drag and drop in immediate actions lists.
· Add filters in immediate actions.
· Add preview in immediate action.
· Now copy ACL information.
· Add an option to limit the number of versions retained in Evolutive Backup.
· Add an information window.
· Add the possibility to send an email in case an action cannot be executed because a volume is not mounted.
Corrections:
· Fixed various minor issues.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.1.3:

January 7th, 2009

Enhancements:
· Alert if multiple versions of Tri-BACKUP are running at the same time on the same Mac. Now prevents that multiple scheduling could execute simultaneously.

Corrections:
· Fixed a problem with the min and max size of the programmed actions edition window.
· Fixed a problem with specific FTP backup.
· Fixed a problem with filters in FTP copy.
· Fixed a problem with programmed restoration.
· Fixed a problem that could show multiple lines of the same action in the list of latest actions executed.
· Fixed various minor issues.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.1.2:

November 21st, 2008

Enhancements:
· Add drag and drop in Immediate actions list, to copy any item directly to a folder.
· Add filters in Immediate actions.
· Add preview of selected item in Immediate actions, activated by the Space bar.
· Add contextual menu in the list of immediate actions.

Corrections:
· Fixed various minor issues.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.1.0:

September 1st, 2008

· Enhancement of the FTP backup routines.
· Enhancement of the Email sending (add SMTP server, and sender email information).
· Add a Check Settings function to control if settings are correct.
· Add a Simple Mode to easily create backup and disk copy.
· Add a Filter check button, to show the results of filters.
· Add an alert when the startup volume has less than10% of free space.
· Add an alert during actions execution when the free space on destination disk is less than 10%.
· Add a new function in the Tools menu that shows the evolution of the free space in volumes.
· Add sender and SMTP server information when a programmed action must send an email.
· Add information about volumes when a volume is missing (and this prevents the execution of the action).
· Add an option to prevent launching a programmed action by remote control.
· Fixed an issue that could prevent Immediate Modify actions to scan the contents of folders for modifications (when this option is selected).
· Fixed various minor issues.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.0.3:

June 27th, 2008

· Add date of last execution in programmed actions list.
· Shows the list of code errors meaning.
· Add the possibility to launch a group of actions from the Tri-BACKUP icon in the menu bar.
· Add a filter option for files modified xx days before the execution of a programmed action.
· Add a function in Actions menu to export in a text file the settings of selected programmed actions.
· Add multiple selection when adding folders/files in the Items list of programmed backup.
· Add options in immediate comparison to check (or not) permissions and date.
· When a programmed action is selected, creating an immediate action (from the action menu or the left buttons) will copy settings from the programmed action.
· It is now possible to have multiple scheduling, both with the predefined menu and the programmation list.
· Links of a programmed action can now be manually sorted.
· Links for volumes ejection are now immediatly executed (they no more wait until all is done).
· Fixed a problem that did not copy or delete items in a locked folder.
· Fixed a problem that uncorrectly copied owner and permissions when this option was unchecked.
· Fixed a problem with files in the list of items to backup in programmed actions (files could be replaced by folders in the backup).
· Fixed a problem with "include" filters. Tri-BACKUP now scan all folders to search for items matching the filters.
· Fixed a problem when filtering names with multiple values (separated with commas).
· Fixed various minor issues.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP 5.0.1:

April 22nd, 2008

· Add a Clean Evolutive Data function (accessed from the Tools menu).
· Add a Volumes Information window (accessed from the Tools menu).
· Add an Incremental Backup to multiple destination option (Pro only).
· Add a new condition in Links panel, to show an alert or send an email when the free space is low (< 10%) in the destination disk.
· Now detects if a folder was renamed, and change the folder's name in destination instead of deleting the old one, and re-copy new contents (only available in Copy and Mirror backup programmed actions, and Copy immediate action, when "delete missing" option is activated).
· Mount Volumes function in the Tri-BACKUP menu.
· Automatically mount connected but unmounted volumes if they are used by the current action.
· Fixed a problem in Evolutive Backup that could miss to place items deleted in a source folder in Evolutive data folders.
· Fixed a problem that could interrupt a backup in some specific cases.
· Fixed various minor issues.