Arq Backup 6.2.76

What's new in this version:

Arq Backup 6.2.76
Fixed Issues:
- Changed the Add Google Drive and Add Google Cloud functions to use an external web browser because at least 1 person got an error from Google when using a built-in web browser for OAuth.


Arq Backup 6.2.71
Improvements:
- Modified email report settings to allow multiple 'to' addresses separated by semicolon.

Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue that could cause an error getting bucket names from some S3-compatible servers.
- Fixed an issue where directories with special characters in their names could not be browsed in the file selector.
- Fixed an issue where errors during Arq's internal database initialization could prevent backup activity.
- Modified Arq to retry when B2 (or other servers) unexpectedly disconnect during API calls.
- When editing a backup plan that contains selections from volumes that aren't available, show an error but allow editing of the plan's selected items anyway.
- When adopting a backup plan, rewrite its C: selections to use the current computer's C: drive's disk identifier.
- Fixed an issue where Arq could report no backups for 'n' days because the backup plan was run but no new snapshot was saved because no changes were found.
- Added a workaround for unexpected errors when asking Windows for a drive's format.


Arq Backup 6.2.64
Fixed Issues:
- If OneDrive/SharePoint returns an error from a delete call and Arq retries and gets a not-found error, do not log it as an error.
- Allow SMB paths longer than just host+sharename.
- Fixed an issue where Arq might not request all needed Glacier/Deep Archive objects during restore.


Arq Backup 6.2.60
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue that could prevent daily backups from happening depending on time zone and selected backup time.
- Added a workaround for handling unexpected data format when reading SQS messages during restore from Arq 3-created Glacier backups.


Arq Backup 6.2.58
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed date display issues in search results.


Arq Backup 6.2.54
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue which could cause not-found errors when restoring from Glacier archives created by Arq 3.


Arq Backup 6.2.52
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue that could cause the agent to crash when there's an unexpected error running a preflight or postflight script.
- Fixed an issue that could cause "invalid Windows path" error when restoring from Arq 5 backups.
- Fixed an issue that could block the "wake at backup time" option from operating properly.
- Fixed an issue that could block the "prevent sleep" option from operating properly.
- Fixed an issue where changing an existing backup plan's file selection option from SMB to "selected files" doesn't show volumes to select files from.
- Fixed an issue where the computer identifier could change when switching from trial to paid usage.


Arq Backup 6.2.46
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue that caused Arq to report 'Missing destination path for restore' when 'Original location' was chosen for restore.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when attempting to connect to an SMB share with special characters in the share name.
- Allow SMB hostnames to end with "$".


Arq Backup 6.2.44
New Features:
- Added support for restoring files to an SMB share in addition to an attached drive.
- Added support for new S3 regions af-south-1, me-south-1, and eu-south-1.

Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue which caused modification times in backup records to be off by a few minutes.
- Fixed an issue which could cause an error creating an S3 bucket.
- Fixed an issue which could cause a crash when browsing Arq 5-created backup records where the directory backed up is "/".
- Increased wait time when retrying Google Drive requests in order to reduce the frequency of "rate limit exceeded" errors.
- Added a workaround for unexpected error messages from some SFTP servers when a file is not found.
- Fixed an issue which could cause backups to B2 to report transient errors as errors in the log instead of retrying.
- Handle a crash when an unexpected error occurs closing a file stream from an SMB volume.
- Improved caching performance of Arq5-created indexes.
- Fixed an issue which could cause not-found errors when restoring from Arq 5 Glacier backup records.


Arq Backup 6.2.30
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue which could cause "HMACSHA256 does not match" errors when restoring from Arq 5 backups.
- Fixed an issue which could cause a crash when restoring Arq 5 backups to a custom location.
- Improved the speed of navigating Arq 5 backup records.


Arq Backup 6.2.29
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue which could cause the agent to crash when restoring from Arq 5 backups.
- Fixed an issue which prevented snapshot thinning.
- Fixed icon for S3-compatible in Add Storage Location.
- Fixed an issue which caused "authorization header is malformed" errors for S3 ap-southeast-2 region.
- Fixed an issue which could prevent adding an S3 storage location with an existing bucket.


Arq Backup 6.2.27
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue which could cause the agent to crash when checking free space for Google Drive.


Arq Backup 6.2.23
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue where an old S3 bucket with "EU" location constraint couldn't be added to Arq as a storage location.
- Fixed an issue that could the agent to crash attempting to get the computer's serial number in some virtual machine environments.
- Changed transfer-rate settings to use local time rather than UTC.
- Changed times in email reports from UTC to local time.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when a volume of an unexpected type is unmounted.


Arq Backup 6.2.17
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue that could prevent backups from happening when schedule is set to weekly.
- Fixed an issue that could cause search to get stuck.
- Fixed the Delete All Snapshots button.
- Fixed an issue where snapshots of other computers were displayed in the wrong order.
- Show a better error message when connecting to an S3-compatible server returns an unexpected result.
- Fixed an issue where the web socket server wasn't listening only on localhost.


Arq Backup 6.2.16
Improvements:
- Added a check when uploading files to OneDrive/SharePoint to guard against corruption on OneDrive's end. OneDrive/SharePoint data which hasn't been checked will be re-uploaded.
- Improved logging when restore errors occur.
- Log an error in the backup activity when not enough free space is available.
- If not all volumes are connected, show an error message when editing the backup plan.
- Show icons for storage locations.
- When adding an S3-compatible storage location, if the user enters a hostname instead of a full URL, convert it to a full URL.
- When adding an S3-compatible storage location, always use path style (instead of virtual host style) for S3 API requests.
- Added a region field to support use of S3-compatible storage locations which use custom region names.

Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue where ArqMonitor (the menubar app) doesn't launch for all users.
- Fixed an issue where no error is reported if creating an S3 bucket fails.
- Changed the daily backup scheduler to schedule the backup using local time instead of UTC.
- Fixed an issue where SMB passwords with some special characters would cause authentication errors.
- When comparing email addresses when an Arq Premium license code is entered, compare case-insensitive.


Arq Backup 6.2.12
Improvements:
- When adding an S3-compatible storage location, if the user enters a hostname instead of a full URL, convert it to a full URL.
- When adding an S3-compatible storage location, always use path style (instead of virtual host style) for S3 API requests.

Fixed Issues:
- If not all volumes are connected when editing a backup plan, show a warning.
- Removed an obsolete check for in-progress import jobs.
- If not enough free space is available, log an error so the backup doesn't finish as "successful".
- Changed the daily backup scheduler to schedule the backup using local time instead of UTC.


Arq Backup 6.2.11
Improvements:
- Show the list of selections in a scrolling view if there are more than 5 of them.
- Enable the Ente rkey when entering SMB parameters for a backup plan.
- Reduced the memory usage during backup.

Fixed Issues:
- Allow spaces in the SMB path when adding an SMB storage location.
- Fixed an issue where Microsoft API calls weren't being retried on transient error.


Arq Backup 6.2.10
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue which could cause a 'SQL logic error table backup_plans has no column named cpu_usage' error.


Arq Backup 6.2.9
New Features:
- Added a slider in backup plan options to control CPU usage.
- Added an option to select a specific folder as a destination when restoring files.

Fixed Issues:
- Fixed a layout issue which could cause the Delete button to disappear for some backups listed under "Storage Locations".
- Fixed an issue which could cause a 'mount point not found' error when restoring from a backup of a device that's not currently connected.
- Fixed an issue which could cause the screen to go blank when browsing backups of an SMB share.
- Fixed an issue which prevented setting the 'minutes after hour' of a backup plan's schedule to zero after it was changed to non-zero.


Arq Backup 6.2.5
- Encrypt the app password when saving it to file.


Arq Backup 6.2.4
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed layout issues when a storage location's name is very long.
- Disabled app debug logging.
- Defaulted agent logging to 'info' level.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Arq Agent to crash during backup.


Arq Backup 6.2.3
Changes:
- Reverted to path-style requests for S3 to work around bucket names that have '.' characters in them.
- Made text selectable in detail panes.

Fixed Issues:
- Fixed scrolling issue when browsing Arq 5 backups.
- Fixed an issue where a very long storage location name could cause display alignment issues in the list of backup plans.


Arq Backup 6.2.1
Changes:
- Removed feature for importing Arq 5 data into Arq 6 format. Arq 5 compatibility mode planned for end of June 2020.
- Cancel unfinished import activities and write a message to the activity log mentioning Arq 5 compatibility mode.


Arq Backup 6.1.15
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed 'specified cast is not valid' error when reading backup plans.
- Disabled Edit, Detach and Back Up Now buttons on unfinished importing backup plans.
- Show importing icon next to all backup plans that are being imported.


Arq Backup 6.1.14
- If import of Arq 5 data finds more than 10 missing data objects or any other error occurs, the user is asked to email [email protected]. Pressing Cancel on the import activity removes the partially-imported backup plans. No Arq 5 data files are modified.


Arq Backup 6.1.13
Changes:
- Removed the option to import just configuration and no data. The only import option is to import all Arq 5 data and settings.
- Added a warning/explanation of the temporary limitations of importing Arq 5 data.


Fixed Issues:
- Added a workaround for backup plans with invalid data causing "specified cast is invalid errors" so that the main window continues loading other backup plans.
- Fixed an issue which could prevent scrolling of backup data when browsing other backups.


Arq Backup 6.1.9
- Fixed an issue which could cause "unique constraint" errors when backing up to Google Drive, Amazon Drive or B2.
- Improved the loading performance when expanding nodes of a file tree in the restore view.
- Changed the Arq 5 import function to abort after 50 errors, allowing for import of data even in the case of a few missing items.
- Fixed a crash that could occur during backup if Windows is unable to read the file's length.
- Fixed an issue that allowed names of storage locations to expand and cover the gear icon.

Arq Backup 6.1.8
Fixed Issues:
- Added support for importing Arq 5 backups that include archived folders.
- Allow 0 for a budget GB setting. (Arq always keeps the latest snapshot, so this allows for keeping only 1 snapshot at all times.)
- Automatically import lifetime license code from Arq 5 if it had one.


Arq Backup 6.1.3
Added Features:
- Display app version in Settings pane.

Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue that could cause the agent to crash when some types of removable drives are plugged in.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a permission error attempting to delete Arq's cache database during validation if a backup had just been performed.
- Fixed an issue that could cause not-found errors during validation on backup data imported from Arq 5.
- Fixed an issue that could cause some re-uploading of data for backup data imported from Arq 5.


Arq Backup 6.1.1
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed an issue where Arq used the wrong B2 ID when requesting a bucket listing.
- Fixed an issue where the "retain hours" setting wasn't being saved.
- Run the preflight script earlier in the backup process.


Arq Backup 6.1.0
Added Features:
- Added a Delete All Snapshots option in the select-snapshots view.

Fixed Issues:
- Fixed issues in importing packed objects from Arq 5 Glacier backups.
- Allow adopting a backup set that has data but no backup plan or snapshots (uses default backup plan settings).
- Write to activity log if the activity stops due to errors.


Arq Backup 6.0.226
- Fixed an issue which could cause errors when getting file listings from B2.


Arq Backup 6.0.225
- Fixed an issue in importing Arq 5 backups from a local-folder storage location which could lead to 'invalid folder path' error.
- When adding a B2 storage location, if your key pair doesn't have permission to list buckets, default to enter-bucket-only instead of showing an error.
- When adding an S3 storage location, if your key pair doesn't have permission to list buckets, default to enter-bucket-only instead of showing an error.
- Fixed an issue which could cause an 'Invalid cast from System.Int64 to Arq.Arq5StorageType' error when accessing some types of older backup data.


Arq Backup 6.0.222
- Fixed an issue where, if you import Glacier backups, then detach, then adopt, Arq reports a 'missing plan UUID' error.
- Changed Arq 5 import functions to not remove Arq 5 configuration files or delete any obsolete metadata after successful import. A separate feature will be added that deletes obsolete metadata at the user's discretion.
- Removed the Restart button from aborted Import activities.
- Fixed a scenario where during import of Arq 5 AWS mixed Standard and Glacier data, Glacier backup records could end up associated with the non-Glacier backup plan.
- Fixed an issue where unexpected/invalid JSON for a backup plan resulted in a 'Value cannot be null' error.
- Fixed a display issue when browsing other backups.


Arq for Windows Version 6.0.221
Major Release Arq 6:
- More power, more security, more storage savings.

Perfect backups:
- Arq uses Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service to create perfectly consistent backups of your files every time.
- If you're modifying your files as they're being backed up, it won't affect the backups.

More power:
- can run multiple backup jobs in parallel
- scans and uploads files in parallel for faster throughput
- only scans changed files/directories after the initial backup (uses filesystem events to detect changes on macOS and Windows)
- new data format which eliminates the need for reading metadata before browsing/downloading from backups.
- you can limit the scheduled backups to certain days of the week
- you can limit transfer rate to certain times of the day at certain days of the week
- powerful new rules for selecting which files and folders are included and excluded from backup
- time-based retention rules in addition to budget-based rules
- optionally keep deleted files in subsequent backups for easy locating of deleted files
- alerts when no backups have occurred for days

More secure:
- Set a password on Arq 6 to prevent others from opening Arq and deleting backups.
- Uses SHA256 for checksums instead of SHA1.

More storage savings:
- Arq 6 can back up to AWS Glacier Deep Archive. Store your backups there for $0.99/TB per month.
- Arq 6 can back up to Google Cloud Archive. Store your backups there for $1.230/TB per month with instant access to backups..

New Arq Premium subscription option:
- All the features of Arq 6 plus:
-> 1 TB storage included
-> simpler configuration
-> secure web access to your backups
-> $5.99/month (extra storage billed at $.00599/GB per month)

Even more features:
- All-new, modern user interface
- Disk device tracking instead of path-based — multiple external drives with the same name are treated as separate
- Faster object cleanup
- Faster validation
- Faster search
- Destination-agnostic, portable data format that's open and documented
- Progress bars showing percent complete
- Wake for backup
- More informative SMTP test results — full SMTP connection log when an error occurs
- Proper connection pooling for SMB and SFTP destinations with a configurable number of maximum threads — useful for SFTP storage locations that limit the number of simultaneous connections
- Optionally start a backup as soon as a volume is connected to the computer