We are happy to announce that COMODO Backup 4.0.7 was released to public.
This is an update for 4.0 version and it contains improvements and bug fixing.
What’s fixed & improved (compared to 4.0.6)
CBU.exe crash at startup on some machines
crashes with COS Service
reduced memory consumption up to 4 times when performing incremental backup for a large number of files > 200000
improved logging when performing incremental backup for a large number of files. The program seemed to hang at “Comparing information” step.
improved CBU.exe startup speed
error 29 which occurred sometimes when performing second incremental on large files (> 4GB)
explorer.exe which hanged sometimes when CB and COS are both installed
Huge memory and speed optimizations in CB Wizard
Thumbnail previews for more files in CB Wizard
Misc user interface fixes in CB Wizard.
some typos for Turkish and German languages (according to feedback) and other typos
issues with task to run before/after backup in a script file
fixed abort issue when a chunk is missing during restore. Restore could not be aborted
CBWizard issue which forced logout during backup operation on Online Storage
CBWizard crash when creating incremental backups
The “Register for free” option in the CB Wizard
CB Wizard detecting files in the Recycle bin
missing “Unmount” shell extension option
synchronization issues to COS
Synchronization service which may have been reported sometimes as not started when start was pending
Known issues:
CB 4.0.7 is not compatible with COS 2.0.6 and older versions. You should update the COS client to 2.0.7 if you have it installed, otherwise online backup operations won’t work.
Sometimes the installation may take longer to complete
Some times there might be a delay when logging into the COS account
Double-clicking the executable may cause the cbu.exe process to appear without the CB user interface
CB may crash sometimes when submitting files to the FLS or when elevating with administrator rights
Bug Reports:
Please use this topic to report your bugs. Our moderators collect these bugs and submit them to the devs.
Download Location:
Setup for Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit, Windows 2003 Server 32-bit and 64-bit, Windows XP 32-bit and 64-bit, Windows 2008 Server 32-bit and 64-bit, Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit:
CB is very much improved since v3, and is improving all the time, and it’s FREE… Acronis is not! Which features do you find it lacks, please discuss in this thread so they can read & we can discuss… they do take note of suggestions.
Suggestion:
At the end of a backup it shows a green check-mark + Done even if there where error’s in the above logging.
Can this be changed to ‘Finished with errors’ and maybe an orange warning icon?
This will give the user a better hint to the fact that there were errors during the backup.
A thing Syncback does is repeat the error lines at the end of the log so the user doesn’t have to scroll trough all the ‘non-error’ lines.
One could also mark lines with errors in the front with a Red X icon so it sticks out more.
Also below the progress marker it shows “The backup process has been completed successfully” even if there where errors during the backup?!
I’d make that “The backup process has been completed with errors”.
Suggestion:
If you ran a backup and did not specify a log file then it would be nice if the GUI would have a ‘Save Log’ option so you still can decide to save the log.
After Step4 is done, before pressing ‘Finish’.
I run an Incremental backup Files+Simple Copy.
Now I run a second incremental backup and cause a folder in the source to be inaccessible (CIS Block files) then the files in those folders get deleted from the destination??
Am I missing something? why would this be deleting files in the destination?
It’s incremental backup it should ‘only add changed files in the source’ to the destination right?
Deleting files in the destination suggests some form of ‘synchronization’ in my point of view.
Also it maybe a lot to ask, but could the size of a CBU Back-Up File of Disk, Partitions, MBR be reduced? With Acronis my 320Gb Drive becomes about a 30 - 40 GB File - With CBU it is about 120GB
why is comodo so reluctant on creating a rescue disc,alot more people would use comodo backup if it had this feature.i believe you are keeping alot of users away because of this.this has been suggested as a feature since the beginning.
these two features is what I am talking about…rescue disk and startup recovery…plus since CTM is no longer available… if there is one time snapshot return (try n decide what they called in acronis) I will be happy…
I am using both acronis 2011 and comodo backup since v4
Just in case you didn’t notice, the compression level defaults to “Low”. I’m pretty sure it’s set that way for better speed… but if smaller size is your goal, then there are three more aggressive compression levels.
