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Drive Snapshot v1.42

Starting December 14th, 2012 the latest Drive Snapshot release is now available: v1.42.

Compared to the previous release, the following improvements have been made:

 

    As always, this Update is free for all registered customers.

    Drive Snapshot Revision History:

    V1.40 - 20 February 2010

     

    • restore of system drive during the system restart
    • supports Windows 7/2008 R2
    • supports Linux Ext4
    • moving to different Hardware has been enhanced

     


    V1.39 - 15 July 2008

    • Supports Restore into Virtual Machines (VMWare/Virtual Server)
    • Mounted snapshots are writeable (data are buffered in RAM) - the user can make a new snapshot of the virtual disk
    • Enhanced ability to exclude files and folders ( --exclude:\*.MP3 )
    • Defective images can be repaired - within certain limits
    • Allows installation of additional (disk) drivers in WinPE/BartPE
    • Fixes/tolerates some bugs in Vista/2008 X64


    V1.38 - 26 March 2007

    • supports Microsoft VSS (useful for MS Exchange 2003 servers)
    • supports mounting of up to 5 images at the same time
    • possibility to exclude Files or directories enhanced ( --exclude:\windows\$NtUninstall*)
    • default image size is 1500 MB

    works better with Windows Vista


    V1.37 - 28 February 2007

    Still 1.37, but works better with Windows Vista


    V1.37 - 17 November 2005

    • differential Backup
    • exclude files/directories from backup
    • command line replacement of some 'magic' strings $DATE,$DRIVE,...
    • supports Windows64 X64 (not IA64-Itanium)
    • Windows Longhorn Beta 1 (it simply worked)

    V1.36 - 20 July 2005

    Older versions of Drive Snapshot (1.35 and earlier) do NOT work with Windows 2003 SP1

    New features:

    Backup:

    • partitions without a drive letter (mounted at mount points)
    • unrecognized partitions (Compaq/HP/Dell service partitions)
    • Linux Ext2/Ext3/Reiser/Swap partitions
    • image files are saved as unfragmented as possible
    • USB sticks should be supported
    • our first attempt to use some graphic in the windows user interface ;)

    Restore:

    • to all partitions mentioned above
    • when restoring from Windows/BartPE, allows resizing of NTFS file system to the partition size.
      Resizing up is always possible; resizing down only to the size of the highest used
      sector on the disk (basically: what you see in disk defragmenter), NOT to the used data size;
      no defragmentation on the fly is attempted.

    Bugs fixed:

    • previous versions allowed mounting of images with <= 256 image .sn1, .sn2,...pieces;
      now up to 65535 pieces (of max 256 TB each) are mountable
    • supports image mounting in Win 2000/Win 2003 Terminal server environment
    • behaves better, if memory cards (MMC etc.) aren't plugged in
    • a couple of minor things (as usual)
    • the described procedure to convert the networkbootdiskette.sna into a 'real' image, suitable to burn a bootable CD, had a bug. fixed.

    V1.35 - 1 May 2004

    • BUG: Windows 2003 Server: 'Driver reports error: IRQL 5'; should be fixed
    • BUG: The recovery diskette was broken for Intel E1000 Network driver. fixed.

    V1.34 - 22 Apr 2004

    • BUG: Sometimes Snapshot Backup caused blue screens; should be fixed
    • BUG: DOS restore worked only for drives, that supported LBA addressing; fixed.
    • new: SafeGuard Easy is detected, and gets special handling. Needs some more testing.
    • new: the DOS part is now packed with APACK, reducing .EXE size by 3K ;)

    V1.33 - 1 Mar 2004

    • new: when backing up from command line. some users wanted a graphical status nevertheless.
      added new switch -G (graphical) to allow this
    • new: when restoring to a new drive, where the drive geometry (cylinders/sectors) changed, the disk isn't bootable. there's a new command
      DOS: snapshot CHECKBOOT HD1
      Windows:snapshot -!CHECKBOOT HD1
      to correct this; will be done automatically in 1.36
    • when output is redirected (command line backup), progress messages are written to stderr, not to the logfile
    • some formatting changes, typos,...

    V1.30 - 9 Oct 2003

    • UDMA Support in the DOS Recovery diskette
    • Ability to resize the file system inside a partition