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Version 1.0b8
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a crash that could happen during user interface updates when multiple backups are running simultaneously
- All addresses in 10.x.x.x, 192.168.x.x and 172.16.x.x are now correctly considered to be on the local network
Version 1.0b7
Enhancements:
- When a file fails being archived, only this file is excluded from the backup instead of all the files in the archive
- Fixed a crash that could happen when a backup generated more than 4,096 data files
- Improved reliability when connecting to FTPS servers
- Fixed the estimated remaining time not being displayed in some circumstances
- Fixed an issue where the backup progress in the user interface could get out-of-sync after several suspend / resume actions
Version 1.0b6
Enhancements:
- Cleaning up stalled files at destination now works even if no backup data is present
- [Web version] Prevent creation of multiple backups with same name
- Fixed a crash that could happen when SFTP connection was restarted
Version 1.0b5
Enhancements:
- Improved disconnection handling for SFTP and AFP / SMB protocols
- Fixed some typos in error messages
- Fixed Persistence Web activation sometimes not working
- Fixed crashes that could occur when providing invalid Amazon S3 bucket names
- Fixed an error that could happen when using "File Size" in the exclusion rules
- Fixed estimated transfer speed sometimes showing abnormally high values
Version 1.0b4
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a regression introduced in 1.0b3 that prevented creation of Amazon S3 buckets in Europe
- Fixed exclusion settings not working properly for some subdirectories of /private
- Fixed status icon in menubar sometimes not animating while backups were in progress
- Fixed backups with more than 1,000 data files on Amazon S3 not being recognized properly
Version 1.0b3
Enhancements:
- Compute automatically a recommended maximum backup data file size in the Backup Assistant
- Aborting a backup during the scanning phase is now immediate
- Loading and saving backup information from disk is now faster
- Reduced overall memory usage during backup operations
- Added handler for non-recoverable internal errors
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed backup information not being reinitialized correctly when resetting a backup completely
- Fixed exclusion settings not being applied when using the root of the file system as the backup source directory
- Fixed a memory leak in the backup history
- Fixed estimated remaining time being often inaccurate
- Properly disable simultaneous processing checkbox on single-processor machines
Version 1.0b2
Enhancements:
- Add an advanced preference to report all excluded invisible items when testing exclusion settings
- Status icon now looks different if backups are active but suspended instead of running
- Finishing phase of backups is now faster
- Improved performance when using the destination browser in the Backup Assistant
- Simplified first pane of the Backup Assistant
- Added a new Backup Assistant operation to remove stalled backup data files
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed some minor issues in the user interface and the Backup Assistant
- Allow .Mac member name to be specified in the Backup Assistant with or without the @mac.com or @me.com suffix
- Now correctly ignores .AFPDeletedXXX files on AFP volumes
- Now correctly reports an error if the initial backup is empty
- Prevent user from selecting a directory on a non-local disk as the destination directory in the Backup Assistant
- Fixed transfer speed display sometimes reporting abnormally high values
- Fixed a potential crash when choosing AFP or SMB server as the destination in the Backup Assistant
- Fixed an issue where Persistence would exit abnormally if the SFTP connection became invalid during a network operation
- Fixed connection issues that could happen with Amazon S3 buckets at a European location
- Fixed connections to FTP servers using Bonjour type addresses that would sometimes fail
- Fixed directory creation or deletion sometimes failing in the destination browser of the Backup Assistant in FTP mode
- Fixed the backup scheduler sometimes not firing properly
Version 1.0b1
Initial release