Double Image® and Double Image-O® ____________________________________________ 5.0.55.0 Release Notes September 29, 2009 Corrections, Enhancements Made corrections and updates to the installer project Note, the Double Image code has not changed, other than version #.
____________________________________________ 5.0.54.0 Release Notes September 9, 2009 Corrections, Enhancements Updated installation and code features Created installation and code changes to provide for easier network to client deployments. ____________________________________________ 5.0.52 Release Notes February 17, 2009 Corrections, Enhancements Updated the Help File Fixed problem with target files not showing after disk format and backup Under certain conditions, the target files would not show following a backup. This could occur on a newly formatted drive, when copying from the root of a source drive; in which case the target would receive the System (s) attribute and Hidden (H) attribute making the files invisible to the user. This could occur if the user did not permit System and Hidden files to show. See Windows Explorer, Tools, Folder Options, Advanced settings: [x] 'Display the contents of system folders' Fixed Installer Package to ensure the open file copy drivers were fully installed. The previous build .0039 was released with a problem in the installer package that prevented the open file copy drivers from being installed correctly in some cases. When running build .0039, and copying open files was selected, the user would get a log error message: "the open file copy drivers are not installed..." The open file copy drivers for Double Image-O are now certificate signed for authenticity to run on Windows systems.
____________________________________________ 5.0.39 Release Notes October 21, 2008
Corrections, Enhancements Updated 'Always Omit' Path and File Groups This enhancement will help users to prevent copying files that should not be copied to other hard drives, including the system page file, system volume information, recycle bin. This change will prevent permissions of a target drive from being corrupted by not copying the source drive's 'system volume information' over another drive's 'system volume information' folder. ____________________________________________ 5.0.38 August 2, 2007 Release Notes Corrections, Enhancements Corrected a problem that occurred on Windows 2000 computers, when Help, About was clicked. This issue was only relative to release 5.0.37, and is now fixed. This problem did not occur on Windows XP desktops and Windows 2003 server computers. A minor change to installation with a side-by-side manifest. Users should not need to upgrade from 5.0.37 because of this this change. ____________________________________________ 5.0.37 July 23, 2007 Release Notes Corrections, Enhancements Licensed updates to the downloaded evaluation software will no longer require a uninstall, install Evaluation downloads in releases 5.0.35, 5.0.36 required an uninstall prior to installing a licensed version of Double Image, Double Image-O. Updates no longer require a uninstall and do not require a reboot of the system. The evaluation release now shows the end of evaluation period correctly. Previously, in release 5.0.35, 5.0.36, a message box would show the evaluation status too late, with a probability for a program hang. This has been resolved. The default installation is now a machine installation and not single user. Previously, only a single administrator user could run Double Image. Now any administrator can run the program.
____________________________________________ 5.0.35 April 16, 2007 Release Notes Corrections, Enhancements Double Image will now also recognize most file systems that are Non-Windows controlled drives, when using 'Backup Type' option 'Incremental backup by timestamp' Commonly you would see this on NAS devices that reported an NTFS file system when they are in fact controlled by a Linux operating system or other; and then a FULL backup would occur as a result since the timestamps would not match exactly. Time tolerances are now applied to over 80 additional file systems within DoubleImage. Between '1 hundredth of a nanosecond' and 2 seconds variances are assigned. The time variance is for individual drives (not for every drive being copied from or to) . The added file systems include UNIX, Linux, (including SUSE Linux), Netware, HP, Samba, Veritas, Amiga, Beeweeb, off the shelf NAS network storage devices like Buffalo's LinkStation or TeraStation along with most common file systems for CD, DVD drives. The added file system acceptance to Double Image includes most older, current and beta releases for the file systems mentioned above.. Note, when backing up Windows folders and files to some of the above non-Windows computer drives you may notice messages in the log that describe an inability to copy attributes they cannot deal with, like the Windows files system attributes used on 'FAT' FAT16', 'FAT32' and 'Windows NTFS'. This can include Encryption, Sparse, Windows Compression, System, Hidden.... Double Image applies the file timestamp tolerance to the individual drives. A copy session can consist of several source drives and a target drive with any combination of Windows controlled drives or non-Windows controlled drives, and each unique file system will be assigned its own time tolerance to permit 'Incremental Backup by Timestamp' to function as you would expect. Double Image, Double Image-O executables now have a digital code signed certificate signature Microsoft's Windows Defender will now also show that Double Image, Double Image-O are signed. (this is viewable when running the application). The beep is gone [Yes, No] message no longer appears when viewing the UI following a backup Copy Option 'Back up the registry files on a computer if that computer has it's Windows system folder backed up.' is now fixed. The middle registry option was not functioning on some earlier releases, and is now functional. Increased security of installation and running Double Image, Double Image-O Running Double Image requires the user to have elevated security login privileges; a non-privileged user cannot run Double Image. This increased security measure prevents indirect access attempts to the HKEY_Local_Machine (HKLM) part of the registry, by a non-privileged user. Administrators may schedule backups for non-privileged users. NOTE: On XP PRO 'Computer Administrators' and 'Limited Accounts' and Guest are the default user setups, and it is the Computer Administrators that can install and run Double Image, Double Image-O. Problems that should no longer occur as a result of this change are:
Note, when running multiple copy sessions using the identical backup profile name, a unique log is created for the latter sessions with an extension of <logfilename>.bul[n], where n starts at 1 and is incremented for each concurrent copy session. Usually when multiple backups/copy sessions are occurring with the same profile name, the user has done this unintentionally. One of the best ways to eliminate this condition from happening is to select 'Auto-Exit at End of Job' in the options, anytime the copy session is set to be scheduled. The InstallShield Update Service is no longer used for Check for Updates The InstallShield Update Service is no longer relied upon by HII and will not be part of future Double Image, Double Image-O installations, starting with Double Image, Double Image-O build 5.0.34. We have found that this expensive service created more problems to customers and HII than it solved. Earlier installations of Double Image may have installed the 'InstallShield Update Manager'. If this tool is currently on your PC, then run it to learn if other software is using the manager. If only Double Image shows in the list, then it is a good idea to remove it. How To Uninstall Update Manager Run "uninstallupdatemanager.exe" Previously a target file could end up with a zero byte file size A new option 'Never Copy Zero Byte Files' was added to the Copy Options in the user interface and command line usage Under most circumstances you should not need to use this option, but it is available now available if you are using certain precautions. Secondly, you use this option to learn all the zero-byte files on your system. Command line users
Build 5.00.34.n did not copy attributes correctly, in all cases |