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- This file documents recent changes to MRBackup. Changes are listed in
- reverse chronological/version order. The MRBackup version number
- scheme follows these conventions:
-
- The first digit is the version level. Changes in the version level
- indicate major functionality changes and possible incompatibilities
- with previous versions.
-
- The second pair of digits following the period constitute the revision
- level. Revisions generally indicate added or changed functionality
- while maintaining upward compatibility.
-
- If the revision level is followed by a letter (a-z), this indicates a
- bug-fix release.
-
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- * Don't forget to assign MRBackup: to the directory where MRBackup lives! *
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-
- 10/23/93 V1.15
-
- ===========
- Changes
- ===========
-
- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I M P O R T A N T ! * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
-
- MRBackup Professional version 1.15 and above now REQUIRE version 2.04
- (or greater) of the AmigaDOS operating system. MRBackup Professional
- will no longer work on version 1.3 (or lower) of AmigaDOS.
-
- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I M P O R T A N T ! * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
-
- MRBackup Professional is no longer dependent upon arp.library.
-
- MRBackup Professional is now (again) a shareware product. While I
- consider it to be of excellent commercial quality, I do not have the
- resources to pursue commercial distribution. In every other aspect,
- nothing has changed. If you're honest, you'll either pay the
- requested registration fee or remove MRBackup from your system. I
- will continue to support MRBackup Professional as long as there is
- some reward in doing so.
-
-
- 07/20/93 V1.14e
-
- ===========
- Changes
- ===========
-
- There has been some confusion over the need for a saveset catalog when
- doing a restore. If you are doing a full restore, the catalog is
- unnecessary. If you wish to do a partial restore, you MUST have a
- catalog. Prior releases of MRBackup would let you cancel the Catalog
- file requester, then ask "Restore without catalog?". This release now
- presents a requester with a brief explanation and the choices "Use
- Catalog, Ignore Catalog and Cancel". If you select "Use Catalog", the
- catalog file requester will appear. If you select "Ignore Catalog",
- MRBackup will assume that you are going to do a full restore and will
- not request a catalog. If you select "Cancel", MRBackup will abort
- the restore.
-
- Several enhancements have been added to the Rebuild Catalog and
- Restore commands, primarily to facilitate recovery from savesets which
- are missing one or more diskettes. Also, MRBackup used to ask for
- disk #1 at the beginning of a restore, even when it wasn't required.
- If a diskette in a given saveset is lost or damaged, just rebuild the
- catalog with whatever disks you have, then restore using that catalog.
-
- Jeff Porter reported that MRBackup didn't work well under WorkBench
- when the Screen Text font preference was set to something other than
- an eight point non-proportional font. This was supposed to have been
- fixed quite a while ago. Well, I've gone through all gadget
- definitions and insured that Topaz 8 is explicitly referenced. There
- still can be some clipping of gadgets near the top border if a large
- default font is chosen, but overall the situation is much improved.
-
- ===========
- Bug Fixes
- ===========
-
- MRBackup now issues a "motor off" command to the floppy disk drive
- whenever an error is detected on either a disk read or write.
-
-
- 05/20/93 V1.14d
-
- ===========
- Bug Fixes
- ===========
-
- Glenn Holliday discovered an interesting `disk full' situation when
- performing an AmigaDOS backup with Formatting set to `None'. This
- release fixes the problem. It should be noted, however, that this use
- of MRBackup (incremental backups to the same AmigaDOS saveset) is not
- really recommended unless you know all of your backed up files are
- going to fit on one diskette (or hard disk partition) or you don't
- care if multiple versions of a given file will accumulate over
- multiple diskettes. Since MRBackup doesn't load a catalog of an
- existing saveset prior to doing a backup, he doesn't know in advance
- that previous versions of files may be stored on the disks being used
- for this backup. Also, you'll end up with multiple catalogs, rather
- than a single, consolidated catalog.
-
- The `None' formatting option was originally added to accommodate
- preformatted diskettes. While it does have other interesting uses,
- you must be aware of MRBackup's limitations in these cases.
-
-
- 05/09/93 V1.14c
-
- ===========
- Bug Fixes
- ===========
-
- MRBackup could get into an error recovery loop if a file selected for
- backup was deleted before it could be backed up.
-
- Compression estimating was not working as documented. Also, to aid in
- compression estimating, the final compression ratio is written to the
- log file at the end of a backup.
-
- In AmigaDOS backup mode, backup media overfull conditions can occur
- through normal use, especially when using compression estimating.
- MRBackup now anticipates/prevents more of these situations and handles
- the ones it can't prevent in a more robust manner.
-
- Under AmigaDOS 2.04(+), AmigaDOS backup mode, if a quick format fails
- with an error 225 (ERROR_NOT_A_DOS_DISK), a normal format will be
- attempted
-
-
- 04/18/93 V1.14b
-
- ===========
- Bug Fixes
- ===========
- --
- The AmigaDOS mode Restore function had a serious error in its filename
- construction algorithm (a side-effect of recent `minor' changes) which
- effectively blocked file restoration in AmigaDOS mode (from MRBackup,
- at least). The problem is fixed.
-
-