Drive Snapshot - What's new

V1.46 - March 2018: Drive Snapshot 1.46

• Changes to support recent operating systems (Windows 10 (1709))
• Improved speed when verifying images
• Additional options to create differential images much faster (--FastDiff:)
• Possibility to remove a removable drive after successful backup (--EjectDrive)
• Improved image repair functionality (--repair)
• Improved partition handling for Linux partitions
• Support for recent versions of XFS (V5 with CRC) file systems

V1.45 - December 2016: Drive Snapshot 1.45

• Support for Server 2016
• Support for disk with a native sector size of 4k byte (4kn)

V1.44 - April 2016: Drive Snapshot 1.44

• Support for Windows 10
• Restore complete disks with multiple partitions at once
• Connect to remote network shares with Snapshot
• NT4sp6 is supported again. If you encounter any problems please use
  Snapshot.exe 1.40 and send us an email

V1.43 – 17.Feb 2014: Drive Snapshot 1.43

• Support for Windows 8, 8.1, 2012, 2012 R2
• Support of GPT Partitions

V1.42 – 14. Dec 2012: Drive Snapshot 1.42

V1.41 – 20. Oct 2012: Drive Snapshot 1.41

• Backup and Restore using FTP
• for 64-Bit Restore Environments Snapshot64.exe
• Using VSS with explicit involvement of VSS Writers
• unfortunately NT4 is no longer supported; please use Snapshot.exe 1.40.
  Windows 2000 requires SP3 Upgrade Rollup.

V1.40 - 20 Feb 2010: Drive Snapshot 1.40

• it is possible to restore the system drive during next system Restart
• supports Windows 7/2008 R2

• supports Linux Ext4

• moving to different Hardware has been enhanced

V1.39 - 15 July 2008: Drive Snapshot 1.39

• Supports Restore into Virtual Machines (VMWare/Virtual Server) 
• mounted Snapshots are writeable (data are buffered in RAM) - and you can make a new snapshot of this virtual disk
• Ability to exclude files and folders has been enhanced ( --exclude:\*.MP3 )
• defect Images can be - within limits - repaired
• allows in WinPE/BartPE Installation of additional (disk) drivers
• fixes/tolerates some bugs in Vista/2008 X64

V1.38 - 26 March 2007: Drive Snapshot 1.38

• supports Microsoft VSS (useful for MS Exchange 2003 servers) (details)
• 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: Drive Snapshot 1.37

Still 1.37, but works better with Windows Vista (read more)

V1.37 - 17 November 2005: Drive Snapshot 1.37

• 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: Drive Snapshot 1.36

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 [BETA]
• Ability to resize the file system inside a partition [read more]