AISBackup: Version History 3.0 to Date.

Changes in version 3.0

AISBackup Version 3.0 Build 402 (13 January 2012)
Build 402: 3.34 MB (3,504,360 bytes

This build introduces the ability to backup and restore the Windows 8 Developer Preview edition. There may be issues with Windows 8 support and we welcome feedback.

Updates:

Support for Windows 8 (developers preview version).
Change to network drive password handling.
A Warning is shown if encrypted e-mail is selected and the AISBackup SSL support has not been installed.
When running from the bootable AISBackup Restore CD the network IP address is displayed in the caption of AISBackup; this should help with ascertaining if a network connection has been established.

Fixes:

A problem preventing the previous version running on Windows NT4 has been repaired.

Changes in version 2.9

AISBackup Version 2.9 Build 400 (12 September 2011)
Build 400: 3.43 MB (3,605,728 bytes)

Updates:

AISBackup is now aware of Blu-ray and HDDVD and these drives may be chosen as the backup destination. Please note that backing up to Blu-ray using the integrated disc writer requires a 25GB disk stage (15GB for HDDVD).
AISBackup Restore Media: AISBackup may now set-up the AISBackup restore boot image on USB NTFS External drives that have been formatted as a primary partition. A question is asked when setting up backup jobs to the correct type of external drive. This option may be used on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (where the AISBackup Restore USB flash drive option does not work).
AISBackup Restore Media: now supports a list of backup jobs that is created when the AISBackup Restore media is created. The list is automatically maintained in backup jobs that backup to the correct type of USB external drive. (NTFS, Primary partition).
AISBackup detects Server 2011 as Server 2011 instead of Windows Server 2008 R2.

Fixes:

Disk to disk copy did not delete removed folders if the delete files before copy option is chosen.
AISBackup used to recreate large file segment control files (aii) in FTP backup jobs.
Entering leading or trailing spaces in the job name when setting up a backup job would create a destination with leading or trailing spaces; this would cause the backup job to fail. Any leading or trailing spaces are now removed.
Repaired problem with testing optical media (CD, DVD and Blu-ray).
Exception errors when displaying empty log files.

AISBackup Version 2.9 Build 398 (23 March 2011)
Build 398: 3.29 MB (3,450,040 bytes)

Fixes:

Server 2008 64 bit editions: Backup of open exclusive files would fail for the second drive if open exclusive files were on more than one disk drive.
The New Job option used the job name as the internal file names used within AISBackup, previous versions would allow invalid filename characters to be used; AISBackup now changes invalid filename characters to the underscore character.
Possible problem restoring hard links in backup jobs that contain over 65,535 file hard links. The problem is in the restore and the backup itself is okay. This problem was only likely to affect restores from backups that contain multiple Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems in a dual or multi-boot environment.
Test backup repaired where the backup is to multiple destinations and more than 1 destination is online.

Changes:

Improved performance calculating synchronise of files of type. Example: A synchronise job of 21 file types in 1,172 folders over a 100MBit network takes 1 hour 9 minutes and 20 seconds in the previous version of AISBackup and 3 minutes 19 seconds with this version of AISBackup.
Improved support for backup, restore and copy of NTFS sparse files.
The New Job form has been updated to only scroll 1 item at a time when using the mouse wheel. The mouse wheel resolution has also been updated on the Undo Backup and Select backup session for restore forms.
The New Job option now uses the job name as the sub folder name in the backup destination field if the generated job name is manually changed. This update should make it easier to locate a backup when using the Tools / Open Job From Backup Media option. You can of course still change the backup destination to your own preferred destination.
Added a reminder to make the AISBackup Bootable Restore media.
Auto-run log message change for copy style jobs.

AISBackup Version 2.9 Build 395 (18 January 2011)
Build 395: 3.28 MB (3,448,944 bytes)

Changes:

The method of making backup jobs has been made easier by making the New Job option use the click to select options; it is possible to make a full backup with just 6 mouse clicks. The previous New Job options are available under Custom Job.