SyncBackFree

What's new in this version:

SyncBackFree 11.3.72.0
New:
- (Pro): Support for virtual and path style access (S3)
- In File & Folder selection window, hint includes the display name Windows Explorer uses for that item (if available)
- In Results window, hint includes the display name Windows Explorer uses for that item (if available)
- In File Collision window, Filename label includes the display name Windows Explorer uses for that item (if available)

Updated:
- (Pro): Traditional Chinese translations
- (Pro): Change in Azure to ignore stub blobs for virtual folders that have the metadata hdi_isfolder set to TRUE
- (Pro): Option to use ListObjectsV2 with S3 compatible systems, e.g. MinIO
- (Pro): Client ID and secret now required for Google Drive (mandated by Google)

Fixed:
- Removed prompt when getting Help in main window
- In File & Folder selection window, when source and destination both displayed, hint text for destination now includes drive letter if using volume GUID
- In rare cases, the differences icon in the File Collision window may be blank
- Fixed (Pro): Done button may not be enabled when creating a new profile using Egnyte or Google Drive
- Reconnection issues when using Chilkat
- Using XZ compression with cloud fails
- In Tech Support Wizard can now choose where to save the Zip file


SyncBackFree 11.3.62.0
- New (Pro): Log contains any known cloud limits (for cloud services that support it)

Updated:
- Recompiled using latest version of Delphi
- Updated (Pro): When entering a cloud auth code you are warned if you try to type it in manually
- Using latest Chilkat (S)FTP DLL which replaces old version (new filename)
- Traditional Chinese translations
- A Title and Message is required with Pushover (400 Bad Request error if not supplied)
- Updated (Pro): AWS S3 and compatibles will auto switch to path style URL if ListObjects returns error 404
- When selections are changed in File & Folder selection due filter changes then changed items are selected
- If using BTRFS, e.g. on ASUStor NAS device, then warning given in log file about needing to run elevated

- Fixed (Pro): WebDAV handling of weak ETags


SyncBackFree 11.3.56.0
New:
- New: Support for Microsoft Personal email accounts using OAUTH2, e.g. Outlook.com
- New: Support for GMail OAUTH2 (you must create a client ID and client secret)
- New (Pro/SE): Optional time limit for creating patch files (versioning with delta)

Updated:
- Updated (Pro): Added new AWS S3 regions: Calgary and Malaysia
- Updated (Pro): Added support for AWS S3 China Northwest region

Fixed:
- Fixed: May not record a relative directory symbolic link has been skipped because destination already scanned
- Fixed: Loading and saving defaults, and loading from another profile, for history tab should not be available
- Fixed (Pro): HTTP download file names may get shuffled and point to wrong URLs
- Fixed (Pro): Handle server throttling with HTTP downloads
- Fixed (Pro): In New Profile Wizard it was not saving as a linked account when asked to
- Fixed (Pro/SE): Chance of memory leak when creating patch files (versioning with delta)
- Fixed (Pro/SE): Decryption password not used when restoring encrypted ZStandard files


SyncBackFree 11.3.45.0
- Fixed: When restoring from system tray icon, and dark style used, SyncBack window may flash white
- Fixed (Pro): Script function midstr() was wrongly expecting 2 parameters instead of 3
- Update: 7z is now used to create No Install Zip files (Zip format still used)


SyncBackFree 11.3.35.0
Updated:
- Runtime Intelligence removed
- Profile and Global variables will warn if a SyncBack, Windows, etc. variable name is being used
- Updated (Pro/SE): Upgrade Assurance can now be purchased at a later stage

Fixed:
- Exception when selecting 'Exit but do not backup profiles' from Exit button on main menu
- Fixed (Pro): Fix for Chilkat SFTP not setting last modification date and time when using SFTP v3 servers
- Some anti-virus software can delay SyncBack starting
- The expanded source and destination directories may be displayed differently on Simple settings page than what is actually used when run


SyncBackFree 11.3.29.0
- New (Pro/SE): New COMPAREBOTHTOTAL variable

Updated:
- Updated (Pro/SE): Can use wildcards for network names in Copy Delete -> Network settings
- Updated: When error is ERROR_RETRY then it will only retry 5 times before failing
- Updated: When opening or comparing files from Differences window it will now change volume GUID or device path to drive letter paths automatically

Fixed:
- Fixed (Pro): Can add secrets connection if no secrets
- Fixed (Pro): Change in S3 to use the correct maximum number of uploaded parts when using Scaleway storage
- Fixed: Exit from tray icon pop-up menu, and Close from taskbar pop-up menu, correctly handles situations where modal windows are open
- Fixed: Choose sub-directories and Files window may fail to expand folder when using Chilkat FTP engine
- Fixed: When using single zip the zip filename in the log had a trailing slash
- Updated (Pro/SE): Improved error handling and logging when file cannot be zipped when using PKZip


SyncBackFree 11.3.16.0
Updated:
- Updated (Pro): Considerably quicker initial start when using SBMS
- Updated (Pro/SE): User interface changes to choosing profiles backup directory in Global Settings
- French and Dutch translations
- Updated (Pro): Change in Google Drive and Google Photos to ensure users grant all required permissions during authorization
- When enabling or disabling a schedule you are prompted if the schedule should also be enabled or disabled
- Updated (Pro): S3 (and compatibles) retry HTTP request if socket error 10048

Fixed:
- In the main window, a tab may incorrectly appear (called scGP...) when there are errors
- For WebDAV, do not retry upload if HTTP Error 507 (Insufficient Storage)
- Correct a problem in extracting user's name from the encoded token (SharePoint)
- In rare cases the minimized to tray balloon notification flickers constantly
- Occasional error opening Global Settings
- Error on start-up due to invalid entry in registry for Windows TLS
- Fixed (Pro/SE): When using Azure Speech the sound will no longer be clipped when SyncBack or the profile ends


SyncBackFree 11.3.7.0
- New (Pro/SE): Can import profiles from profile backup (via Export / Import main menu)

Updated:
- Recompiled using latest Delphi compiler
- Next Run column will append "(Periodically)" if profile set to run scheduled and periodically and next run is via periodical
- Windows 11 dark mode improved (window border is dark)
- Added and documented shortcut keys when modifying profiles in a group
- When profile is running the Running column in main window states if integrity check, simulation or restore
- If a remote desktop connection is being used then the style is forced to Windows
- Installer is more likely to get the correct serial number when upgrading and more than one serial is in the system
- Log history on main page of log file will show 7 days maximum instead of 5
- (Pro): Icon in main window shows when profile is running an integrity check
- (Pro): Retry when an error occurs during metadata retrieval (AWS S3 and compatibles)
- (Pro/SE): Warnings on When pages when using a Group Queue. Help file also updated.
- (Pro/SE): When testing file copying methods can also use compressed traffic option
- (Pro): Support for Azure Cold blob tier
- (Pro/SE): Windows System Restore Points not supported on Windows Server
- (Pro): Can use your own Google Drive Client ID and Secret. Preparation for not being able to use 2BrightSparks client ID.
- (Pro): Can use your own Egnyte Key and Secret. Preparation for not being able to use 2BrightSparks key.
- Quicker opening profile modification window
- Can use NT Namespaces (?GLOBALROOTDevice...) for source and destination

Fixed:
- (Pro): Uploading large files (2GB plus) to ShareFile can sometimes freeze at the end of the upload
- (Pro): Shared settings could not be used with HTTP Download
- Pop-up menu for group (when modifying) was available even if not a group queue
- If just parameters for profiles in a group queue were changed then main display was not updated
- (Free): Checkbox to create a group queue was incorrectly enabled in New Profile wizard
- When restoring SyncBack window from minimized to maximized (and tray icon not used) may get black space at top of window
- (SE/Pro): Group Queues run periodically will run many times
- In profile configuration may not connect to network share


SyncBackFree 11.2.33.0
New:
- delay command line parameter
- (SE/Pro): Button on Fast Backup settings not to rescan when using Archival Fast Backup
- (Pro): Several new script functions, e.g. LeftStr, StartsText, ReplaceStr, etc.
- (Pro): CustomFilter script (which makes use of new MatchesMask script function)
- Option to scan neither source/left or destination/right when choosing files and folders

Updated:
- To avoid issues with multi-monitor setups SyncBack will briefly appear and minimize when set to run on login
- Updated (SE/Free): Profiles not automatically imported if other edition of SyncBack is installed for current user only
- Better feedback when importing password protected profiles and decryption not possible

Fixed:
- (Pro): Fixes to Secrets Manager window
- (Pro/SE): Rapid Transfer setting was ignored when testing connection to SyncBack Touch
- Was reverting to default Windows style when using Windows screen reader even when SyncBack configured not to use screen reader
- (Pro): Expiring Exchange/EWS tokens with OAUTH when backing up email
- (Pro): Problems with meta-data when files exported from Amazon S3 to other S3 compatible services (e.g. R2) using 3rd party software
- (Pro): Scanning of R2 when over 1000 files in a folder
- (Pro/SE): Files ignored (and warning given) if names or attributes are deemed invalid by the O/S where SyncBack Touch is running
- (Pro): Google Docs files (on Google Drive) downloaded again even when no changes
- (Pro): Fix throttling looping issue when uploaded file names contain illegal/invalid characters (OneDrive and SharePoint)
- Slow to start first time after installing
- Aborting a verify sometimes does not result in a copy failure


SyncBackFree 11.2.15.0
Updated:
- Updated (Pro): FTP buffer size settings now used in all SFTP engines
- Updated (Pro/SE): Can pass offline UA serial to installer
- Updated: Installer shows who SyncBack will run be run as if run from installer

Fixed:
- Fixed: Vertical lines at edge of list in Differences window
- Fixed: Not starting maximized
- Fixed (Pro): Correctly display amount of bytes being moved during object copy (S3)
- Fixed (Pro): Treat HTTP error 400 as a throttle response to requests (SharePoint/OneDrive)
- Fixed (Pro): Correctly set object metadata for files larger than 5 GB in size (S3)
- Fixed (Pro): Box authorization URL


SyncBackFree 11.2.5.0
New:
- (Pro/SE): XZ and ZStandard compression
- A new option on Compression -> Compressed settings page to not compress files considered already compressed

Updated:
- (Pro): Compression filter (already compressed file types) can now be used with PKWare SecureZip encryption
- Main window column widths, order and visibility immediately saved when changes are made
- "Stop using screen reader" menu item appears in Preferences main menu if a screen reader is being used
- (Pro): Added Israel AWS S3 Endpoint
- Splash screen removed (tray icon animates instead)

Fixed:
- (Pro): "bad_request: Invalid API request path" error during a file update with Box API
- (Pro/SE): Failure to scan Zip archives with files over 2GB in size when using LZMA2
- Loses column widths etc. if start minimized and do not show main window before exiting
- SyncBack may fail to retrieve information from Scheduler Monitor
- Internal changes to how windows are minimized and restored


SyncBackFree 11.1.1.0
- Fixed: Scheduler Monitor incorrectly states profiles not run by scheduler


SyncBackFree 11.0.0.25
New:
- You can enable or disable existing scheduled tasks for a profile
- (Pro/SE): %IGNORE_ERR% variable to use with %LABEL=%, %SERIAL=% and %HWSERIAL=%

Updated:
- (Pro/SE): When creating shortcuts to run profile it will take into account if profile must or must not be run elevated
- Updated French, Dutch, Finnish, Italian and Russian translations
- Scheduler Monitor Service notifications now shows date and time profile was supposed to be run
- Scheduler Monitor Service notifications window only appears once (and is updated)
- Scheduler Monitor Service notifications will indicate if there is a problem updating the warnings
- (Pro): S3 regions
- (Pro): When an action cannot be performed it is now clear if it is due to SBMS or group policy settings
- (Pro/SE): Increase connection reliability with Touch on Android (V1.7.7 and newer)

Fixed:
- (Pro): Change for AWS S3 to ignore socket error 10060 when in thread operation, in order to give the thread a chance to retry
- (Pro): Incorrect alignment for Connections list in Secrets Manager
- (Pro): Creating S3 buckets in newer regions
- (Pro/SE): The bypass UAC task scheduler entry had same name as run on login


SyncBackFree 11.0.0.15
New:
- Scheduler Monitor Service introduced which can help detect profiles that are not being run by the Windows Task Scheduler
- (Pro/SE): 7zip compatible LZMA2 compression and encryption (the Zip header can be encrypted so the contained filenames cannot be seen)
- (Pro): Secrets Manager to store usernames, passwords and private keys
- (Pro): Files can be copied from HTTP
- (SE): SyncBackSE now supports LZMA and BZip2 compression along with the new LZMA2 compression and encryption. This also means email log files can use higher compression (LZMA)
- (Pro/SE): You can automatically download files from HTTP, when using FTP, to increase performance
- (Pro/SE): Group Queue profiles. These are similar to the traditional Groups except you can configure how a profile in the group queue is run (e.g. an Integrity check) and the same profile can be in a group queue multiple times. They also use fewer resources.
- (Pro): Cloudflare R2 support (S3 compatible service)
- (Pro): Support for SSE-C with native Backblaze B2
- (Pro/SE): Option to compress network traffic (SMB, Windows 10 or better)
- (Pro): Script Debugging
- You can now choose an action to take if two files are considered to be identical
- All system volumes can be accessed with the path ?
- shared settings can be created from the Manage Shared Settings window. Previously they could only be created when modifying a profile.
- Shared settings can be modified from the Manage Shared Settings window. Previously they could only be modified when modifying a profile that uses those shared settings.
- You can rename shared settings from the Manage Shared Settings window.
- Shared settings can be exported and imported from the Manage Shared Settings window.
- File copying methods can be tested
- In the Differences window, you can filter based on the filename or extension. Wildcards (* and ?) are supported
- In the Differences window, you can configure it so that a double-click on a folder will automatically add it to the filter so only that directory and its contents are shown
- In the Differences window, there are more filter options. You can also click on the Totals grid to filter.
- A hotkey can be defined for SyncBack itself (the hotkey is shown in the tray icon hint)
- A new profile configuration page (Links) has been created to centralize settings related to shortcuts, offline files, symbolic links, hard links, etc.
- On the profile History page you can export all the history
- In the Global Settings you can re-order the tabs
- When modifying a group you can use drag and drop to re-order profiles in a group and to add or remove profiles from the group
- The HTML log file now includes a bar chart for easy comparison of the number of files copied on previous runs (last 7)
- (Pro/SE): Profiles can be configured to run elevated or not elevated. When scheduling such profiles the scheduler is configured as appropriate.
- (Pro/SE): In Global Settings you can configure Windows to allow elevated processes like SyncBackPro and SyncBackSE to see mapped network drives.
- (Pro/SE): In Global Settings you can configure create a shortcut to run SyncBackPro or SyncBackSE elevated without a UAC prompt.
- Console input (stdin) can be sent to the Run Before and Run After programs from a file
- Console output (stdout) from Run Before and Run After can be recorded in the log file
- Option to Run After only if the profile failed
- Profiles (including groups) can be run automatically when the screen saver is activated or the display is powered off
- You can ignore files accessed (or not accessed) between dates or since a date
- For Junction Points, you can ignore all of them (as per V10 and earlier), ignore only Windows backward compatibility junction points or not ignore them
- (Pro/SE): File hard links can be identified and copied as hard links
- (Pro/SE): File symbolic links can be copied and re-mapped
- (Pro/SE): Directory symbolic links and junction/reparse points can be copied and re-mapped
- Option to ignore hidden and system folders
- Option to ignore pinned files and directories
- Option to ignore unpinned files and directories
- Option to ignore placeholder directories
- (Pro/SE): When running a profile as a Restore you can create a Windows System Restore Point.
- Full (absolute) paths can now be used in filters
- (Pro): New script constants, e.g. HoursPerDay
- (Pro): New script functions, e.g. IntRoundTo
- (Pro): New script properties in SBRunning: LeftType, RightType, LeftIsSource
- (Pro): New script object SBProfiles
- variables: SERIALOF, LABELOF, HWSERIALOF, DROPBOX, HARDLINKCREATEDSRC, HARDLINKCREATEDDEST, SYMLINKCREATEDSRC, SYMLINKCREATEDDEST, COMPAREHARDLINKTOTAL, COMPARESYMLINKTOTAL, HTTPDOWNLOAD
- (SE/Pro): -profaffinity command line parameter
- (Pro): Windows Group Policy settings (ADMX) are available

Updated:
- No more button panels for menus, instead main menus are used
- Greatly increased group filtering performance (when listing only profiles not in a group)
- Drives tab on Global Settings initialized faster
- The Tree Explorer, File Collision and Differences windows show if a file or directory is a link and details on it (if the profile is configured appropriately)
- The Differences window has been updated so when using a dark style the details at the bottom are dark
- To save space, leading and trailing slashes are no longer shown in the Differences window
- The New Profile Wizard lets you create Group Queue profiles
- The Filters window shows hints for items that are too wide to display entirely, or it contains variables
- The Restore Wizard automatically hides the History tab if there is no history for the profile
- The scheduler window now clearly shows if the schedule is daily, weekly or monthly
- The log file no longer includes unused filter information and instead only shows filters that have been used
- The log file now splits up the files copied etc. into their own sections. Previously there was only one section ("Copied, deleted, renamed, and changed (123)"), but now they are split into Changes, Copied, Deleted and Renamed
- Updated (Pro/SE): For the webhook calls, if there is no JSON then a GET call is made instead of a POST call
- Updated (Pro): With SyncBack Touch you can now use both Windows Impersonation and SBMS for login for extra security and control
- Updated (Pro): The Azure Speech API has been updated
- Updated (Pro): With Dropbox the native SHA256 hash is automatically used for verification and hash comparison
- Updated (Pro): When creating new scripts, a simple starting template is used as a basis
- When emailing the log you can choose Direct Send for a simpler configuration
- When battery saver is enabled in Windows, all running profile are paused and background backups are not started
- If power is switched to a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) then it is treated as battery saving
- When a profile is run it SyncBack checks to see if a two or more drives are using the same label or have the same serial (if you are using the label or serial variables)
- SysLog supports RFC5424
- Extensive improvements to creating schedules so SyncBack can detect if the user has the access rights to create schedules
- When scheduling profiles configured to run elevated or not elevated the scheduler is configured as appropriate


SyncBackFree 10.2.122.0
Updated:
- Possible crash on program start on pre-Windows 10, e.g. Windows Server 2016
- Profiles that run On Change do not use too many resources when they are using invalid directories
- Manifest file corrected so interface scales correctly on Windows Server 2016
- Connection timeout for email (send and retrieve) changed to 15 seconds from 60 seconds

Fixed:
- Possible loop when profile run On Change and set to delete all empty directories and there are non-empty read-only directories
- Default settings when using Microsoft SMTP email servers
- Fixed (Pro): Unable to change SBMS connection settings if not an SBMS administrator