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• Enhancements:
  • No more preliminary configuration required, a single executable jar is provided for all the platforms
  • Detect automatically if running command line or with the GUI
  • Added capability to handle symlinks (with options to follow/not to follow/copy)
  • Catalog optimization resulting in a smaller file
  • Quicker restore if the destination directory is empty
  • A backup set taken in Unix can be restored in Windows and viceversa
• Bug Fixes:
  • Restoring the timestamp only of an item does not work #269
  • Unexpected behavior when restoring after removing a directory from the directories to backup #239
  • If a file is skipped because in use, when restoring it will be deleted #119
  • The job config file copied into the archive directory is corrupted #224
  • When the maximum number of items in the summary is reached, the total size is not updated correctly #270
  • Catalog version is not updated correctly #226
  • Restore into a different directory creates a prefix with "-" which may be incompatible with Unix #231
  • Calculating differential restore does not show any progress bar #198
  • Compression stats during backup do not take into account invalid files #153
  • Warning summary is printed in random order #148
  • During restore the user is prompted multiple times for overwriting if the file is in multiple volumes #139
  • Matching directory contents against the catalog percentage not smooth with big files #97
  • Time Tolerance setting not working correctly #235

Download Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/zipsnapng/files/v3.1.1/ZipSnapNG-v3.1.1.zip/download

• New features:
  • A new, fully functional GUI has ben been introduced
• Enhancements:
  • For differential backup, the checksum of a file is not calculated if the timestamp has not changed hence speeding up the process
  • The job file is copied over the archive directory upon each backup
• Bug Fixes:
  • During restore the same file is restored and deleted resulting in a warning #217
  • Multiple checksum mismatch errors when restoring #206
  • Undetected loop leads to skipping some files #187
  • Unable to retrieve the list of files of the ZIP volume when catalog is empty #160
  • Files with special character in the name are always seen as updated files #125
  • The file does not exist anymore error while the file is still there #186
  • Archive check complains about slice not stored in any archive #184
  • Progress bar during ZIP archive optimizing does not work #172... read more

• New features:
  • Binary deltas: only the portion (data slices) of the file that has changed is saved or restored
  • Data deduplication: across directories/snapshots/computers, prevent storing copied/renamed/moved contents or any data slice already in the catalog
  • Encryption support: generate password-protected backup sets
  • Purge old data: remove from the catalog the oldest snapshots and associated data
  • Custom action: a custom script can be executed automatically when the backup process is finished
  • Multiple restore options: original location, different directory or merge with existing directories
  • Windows Shadow Copy support: integration with Windows VSS to handle opened files
  • Multi-volumes archive: split the backup archive in multiple, smaller files
  • A backup job can include multiple source directories
  • The configuration for each backup job is stored in independent configuration files
  • The integrity of the files extracted after a restore is verified
  • Identify and differentiate between new and updated files
  • Provide a summary to review of what is going to be backed up or restored before proceeding
• Enhancements:
  • The dataset integrity is verified through different means during backup and restore
  • Provide ETA for long-lasting operations
  • Generate and store log file for each run
  • Keep track of elapsed time for each task and memory consumption
  • The program can be run non-interactively when executed in a batch job... read more