What's new in luckyBackup 0.4.8
Mar 28, 2014
- Added option to disable TLS for email reports
- Added some (useful) statistics at the end of a profile run
- Added destination disk free space at information window
- Minor modifications to "modify task" dialog
- View of remote places is now available through the "manage backup" dialog
- Default email options are now loaded when a new profile is created
- Split of full email command to command & arguments
- Changed the default exclude "system folders" from "/dev /proc /sys /var" to "/dev /proc /sys /run /var/run"
- Safety checks of mount-points now include deeper levels in paths than /media// and /mnt//
- Added support for vss implementation (windows)
- Added support for nt-streams (windows)
- Added support for e-mail notifications (windows)
- Added various libs used for the windows port
- Fixed issue: When one or more items were manually removed from an existing schedule list, LB would delete entries from the bottom of the list instead, when the cronIT button is pressed.
- Fixed issue: Progress bar did not update normally
- Fixed issue: Segmentation fault under certain circumstances, when --skip-critical is used as an argument and there exists one or more actual CRITICAL tasks.
- Fixed issue: Confusion at task list when an item's box state changed.
- Fixed issue (windows): Warning message regarding the changes.log files during a run
New in luckyBackup 0.4.6 (Jun 13, 2011)
- Fixed issue: Older snapshots restore did not always work as expected
- Fixed issue: ".changes.log" files sometimes did not update their lines normaly
- Improved gui. Thank you Michael
- Changed default help browser size
- Increased the limit of maximum snapshots
- Improved OS2 compatibility for snapshots
- Updated manual
New in luckyBackup 0.4.4 (Nov 1, 2010)
- Fixed issue: Displayed task last execution time at the main window, was always "not available" (thank you Michele)
- Added support for snapshots when remote destination is used.
New in luckyBackup 0.4.3 (Sep 3, 2010)
- Fixed issue: Fail to add a new schedule, due to an "invalid profile" message.
- Fixed annoying gui freeze while calculating differences between a snapshot & the source. Also added a "STOP caclulations" button.
- Fixed issue: Seg fault occurs when a system tray notification area is not available and LB is minimized to tray (eg scheduled jobs).
- Minor gui improvements.
New in luckyBackup 0.4.2 (Aug 30, 2010)
- Added extra description field for profiles and individual tasks.
- Change .profile files to simple text so that they can be edited directly (original profiles are backed-up to ~/.luckyBackup/profiles/backups/ just in case).
- Improved logviewer to handle huge files much faster.
- Fixed issue: Normal user menu entry title is "luckybackup (super user)".
- Fixed issue: When using remote destination, a directory named exactly as the destination, will be created localy.
- Fixed issue: Non-workings links inside manual, when application is run from command-line
- Fixed issue: The gui freezes when huge amount of information is desplayed in the "commands output" window
- Updated manual
New in luckyBackup 0.4.1 (Jun 18, 2010)
- Added feature to restore a snapshot to any local directory
- Updated manual
- Improved the cron logfile: Different logfiles for each profile, listing results from only the last cronjob.
- Fixed issue: Command-line mode fails to execute some tasks within a profile
- Fixed issue: Various snapshots issues when task type is "Backup the entire source directory (by name)".
- Fixed issue: Command-line mode fails to delete older snapshots
- Fixed issue: Specific snapshots can now be deleted if more than one exist.
- Fixed issue: Restoring from any snapshot, but the last one, will cause an error to be displayed if the directory .luckybackup-snaphots/XXXXXX has not been created.
- Fixed issue: Creation of full path of destination directory if it does not exist.
- Fixed issue: Translation of standard yes/no - ok/cancel Qt dialogs.
- Fixed issue: Logfiles manipulation when invalid characters are used within the task name.
- Fixed issue: Some character encoding issues at command-line mode.
New in luckyBackup 0.4.0 (May 17, 2010)
- Added support for snapshots
- Officialy added feature to manage created backups:
- Restore
- Delete
- View log
- View source & destination
- Calculate differences between source & destination
- Updated manual
- Added option to copy the actual command to be executed, to clipboard, at "validate" dialog, for direct use at a terminal (...or anywhere).
- Added option to duplicate a profile.
- Added option to duplicate a task.
- Added option to use exclude/include patterns from a file.
- Added "command option" template to support destination FAT/ntfs partitions.
- Added @reboot option at schedule dialog.
- Added "view current crontab" option at schedule dialog
- Added 2 modes for include patterns: "Only Include" and "Normal Include".
- Changed behaviour of pre-task commands to prevent task execution if there is an error.
- Improved pattern editor.
- Updated manpage.
- Improved main gui.
- Improved help dialog (manual) so that it is visible while the user can interact with the main window.
- Changed the way of creating RESTORE tasks from within the task properties to a menu entry.
- Added option to minimize the main window to tray by using the close button when a profile execution is in progress.
- Improved profiles to implement backward compatibility (older versions of application can load newer version profiles).
- Fixed check of 2 tasks within the same profile, using identical destination directories and "backup dir contents" as task type.
- Fixed (hopefully) lots of problems caused by non-standard characters (eg Cyrillic, Greek) especially at schedules and console-mode.
- Fixed lots of problems when a profile execution was ABORTED by the user
- Improved propject file for ubuntu, fedora & openSuse compatibility
New in luckyBackup 0.3.4 (Dec 17, 2009)
- Improved logfiles to a much more useable format
- Added cool "pattern editor"
- Added tray notification support
- Changed "delete files on the destination" as a default option again, together with a WARNING message
- Added "by-pass WARNING" option as a task property, so that the user has the ability to execute tasks with a WARNING message
- Added more command line arguments so that that the gui executes the profile given as argument in normal, dry-run or silent mode
- Improved (simplified) input of a valid profile at command-line mode
- Indroduced error codes at console mode
- Improved schedule settings file (please excuse me for no compatibility with older versions)
- Minor "task properties" dialog improvements
- Introduced information messages regarding schedules
- Introduced information messages regarding the current user running LB
- Fixed schedule dialog bug. When one schedule existed the modify option did not work correctly
- Added refresh list function, after a profile execution to update the gui
- Updated manpage
- Minor gui improvements
New in luckyBackup 0.3.3 (Jul 9, 2009)
- Changed "Delete files on the Destination" as a not-default option
- Fixed display of license at about dialog
- Bug fix: Checking of same source and destination directories when using remote
New in luckyBackup 0.3.2 (May 29, 2009)
- More fixes to comply with various package standards
New in luckyBackup 0.3.1 (May 29, 2009)
- Bug fix: fixed rsync progress window that displayed wrong information about source & destination directories
- Added backup time-stamps to know when tasks were last executed
- Updated manpage
- Minor fixes to comply with various package standards
- Bug fix: Same destination of 2 included tasks check fixed
New in luckyBackup 0.3 (May 11, 2009)
- Completely re-designed gui
- Added option to execute commands before or after a specific task
- Bug fix: Build errors at some systems (including ubuntu 8.04) that refer to wrong use of the 'count' variable
- Bug fix: Window no more disappears when the user has no write permissions at the destination folder
- Bug fix: Window no more disappears when the user clicks the close button at the task properties dialog
- Bug fix: Same destination of 2 included tasks check fixed
New in luckyBackup 0.2.2 (Mar 17, 2009)
- Fixed display of characters other than English at rsync progress window.
- Added "make install" option.
- Improved deb & rpm packages to meet standards.
New in luckyBackup 0.2.1 (Feb 9, 2009)
- Bug fix: Command-line mode no more asks for an X-Server to execute
- Bug fix: Scheduling is now supported for all users including the super-user
- Bug fix: Remote connections actually work now
- Added v0.2 manual
- Added ssh specific port support
- Added translation to other languages support using .ts files
- Added Greek & Czech language support (gui only)
- Improved checks for safer backups and data protection
- Added the “validate” option to the operation properties window
- Improved “save/load profile” code. After this version don't worry if your saved profile will work at the next release.
New in luckyBackup 0.2 (Dec 30, 2008)
- Completely changed gui
- Added support for infinite number of operations for each profile
- Added command line support
- Added support for scheduling of certain profiles execution via cron
- Added support for remote connections
- Added SSH support for remote connections
- Added option to restore an operation
- Added option to remove/add any rsync option
- Added support for certain files, folders or patterns tranfer only (Only Include) & not whole directory
- Added support to exclude the tranfer of certain files, folders or patterns from an operation
- Added option to actually see the rsync command to be executed
- Improved checks to protect user from doing stuff that he/she shoudn't
- Added simple/advanced mode for every type of user
New in luckyBackup 0.2 Pre 1 (Dec 27, 2008)
- Completely changed gui
- Added support for infinite number of operations for each profile
- Added command line support
- Added support for scheduling of certain profiles execution via cron
- Added support for remote connections
- Added SSH support for remote connections
- Added option to restore an operation
- Added option to remove/add any rsync option
- Added support for certain files, folders or patterns tranfer only (Only Include) & not whole directory
- Added support to exclude the tranfer of certain files, folders or patterns from an operation
- Added option to actually see the rsync command to be executed
- Improved checks to protect user from doing stuff that he/she shoudn't
- Added simple/advanced mode for every type of user
New in luckyBackup 0.1.2 (Dec 5, 2008)
- Help dialog fix
- Added man page
- Fixed menu links