============================================================================ CNet Amiga BackUp, v3.51 HISTORY File by Dotoran of Frontiers! ============================================================================ -- v3.51 -- - Released: April 6, 1997! - Bug Fixes: - Star Gazer was telling me he thought the file was turning the More Prompt OFF, but forgetting to turn it back on. Upon checking into this, I noted that if an error occurred in the CNB program, or if you opted to use the Create Archive command, this WAS the case. I made these areas also re-enable the More prompt. I then noted that the AMaint file was doing the same thing, which normally would NOT have posed a problem, however if a user used the CNBA command, THEY would lose their More prompt as well. The AMaint file now reenables the More? Prompt as well. - Changes/Additions: - An idea that occurred to me 2 days AFTER releasing the 3.50 version was to create a .BAK BackUp Set. I refer to this as a CLONE BackUp, where instead of the file creating an LHA archive of the files in the given BackUp Set, it simply CLONED them in the SAME paths, but using a ".bak" extension. You can now create a BAK setup, where any FILES or PATHS can be listed. Numerous internal changes had to be made to both files: - When ADDING the BAK set, you'll be allowed to enter the text description and the interval days, while all other fields are automatically filled in with "moot" values. - By default, hitting ENTER in the Extension field while empty used BAK as the extension. This was changed to CNB instead. - When EDITING the BAK set, you'll ONLY be able to EDIT the text description, interval days, and last backup date. - While modifying the FileList for a BAK set, you'll NOT be allowed to enter a filename ENDING in ".bak", nor will you be able to EDIT or CLONE an existing file, so it ENDS in ".bak". - When a CLONE (BAK) BackUp is performed, files in your FileList are COPIED using the ADos COPY command, with the COM parameter. This ensures that the COMMENT is ALSO copied to the backup file. By default, the file's PROTECTION ATTRIBUTES are copied to the BAK file. The TimeStamp will reflect the DATE/TIME the .BAK file was created. Any EXISTING .BAK file that MAY exist is OVERWRITTEN by the NEW, regardless of it's timestamp. - No LOGS are created during the processing of a BAK set, however if MISSING files are found, AMaint will still send a MAIL message to SysOp ID # 1. -- v3.50 -- - Released: March 9, 1997! - Bug Fixes: - None. (Were there any?!?) - Changes/Additions: - You can now specify complete PATHS in your backup sets. For example, you could specify "systext:" and have ALL files located within the systext directory backed up. - Numerous additional options added to each backup set: - Ability to set the PRIORITY to which LHA packs and tests it's archives. (From -5 which uses very few system resources, but at the cost of extra time being needed, to 5, which basically takes over your system and results in the fastest creation) - Ability to ONLY have the EMail messages sent to you if the created archive contained integrity errors, or to receive the mail whenever a backup is performed. - Ability to use a "FAST" display mode, which makes LHA perform a bit faster all around. - Ability to NOT compress files initially. An archive containing all listed files is created by simply storing the files in the archive with NO compression. When the archive is created, the archive itself is then packed. In certain circumstances, this results in archives 20-30% smaller than those that are packed initially from the start. - Archive Test Integrity has been expanded to give the file the ability of KNOWING when an archive fails an integrity test. It can then take further precautions in these instances. - A "clone" command has been added to the List-Add routines, so that if you enter a LONG path, then have another file that is very close to the first path, you can simply delete a few characters and create the next item in your list. - (I believe this one is old, but don't see it listed here). You can now create an LHA archive directly, without having to create a BackUp set first. In this instance, it is thought you will want to additionally send this archive to a user on your bbs, so once the archive is created, you'll be asked for an Account ID # to which a piece of file-attach email will be sent to the user with the created archive attached. - Changes made to this feature include: - The default filename presented is MMDDHHMM time stamp, using 8 characters, to be compatible on IBM systems. - If an ID number is specified, the created archive will be copied to that user's mailbox before the mail is created. This allows you to use the CNB to create other archives, without losing the first archive before the user can down- load it. -- v3.01 -- - This version released February 10, 1997! - Bug Fixes: - There was a bug in the AMAINT module that resulted in only the first backup list to be backed up, even if other lists were present. (Had a variable conflict in there) - Changes: - Added the newer version headers and footers to both the CNetBackUp and the CNetBackUpA files. Now uses smart version variables and the parse source method of smart home path seeking. -- v3.00 -- - This version released January 15, 1997! - Updated for 3.xx/4.xx version CNet Amiga BBS's. - Newer error checking included(with translated MCI-Command codes) - A uit option was added to all "Pick a List" menus. - If a file contained in a backup file is MISSING, it will be skipped when either AMaint or BackUp is performed, instead of resulting in an error message. - If BackUp is performed and there are MISSING files, you'll be shown a listing of these missing files at the end of the BackUp procedure. - If AMaint runs and has missing files, then an email listing of these missing files will be sent to ID # 1. - If AMaint performs a backup, the "log" will be MAILED to SysOp ID # 1. - Requestors are turned OFF while editing the "Destination" field of a listing, so that it doesn't cause a lockup when used from REMOTE. Note that it will only let you specify a Floppy Drive while you have a DISK IN that drive, so even if you have multiple floppy drives, it will only let you specify drives that would be "readily available" at THAT time. - Added the ability to NOT create a second directory structure. If not, the files will be pulled from their parent locations when the backup archive is created. This cuts down on the number of read/write ops that your computer will have to do when creating a backup, not to mention that the resultant archive will be a bit SMALLER, too as well as the entire operation taking only a fraction of the time to complete! - Added the ability to create the archive directly in the destination path, instead of creating it in the "temp/" path, then COPYING it to the destination path. - With the addition of the above feature, the FORMAT operation will now be performed BEFORE the archive is created, so that if the archive is set to be created directly to the destination, and if that happens to be a floppy disk, the disk will still be formatted ahead of time. - Made the DEFAULT temp path point to a "BackUp/" directory which resides in the "CNetAmigaBackUp/" folder, which is why it is now suggested that you STORE this entire program in a partition OTHER than the one where you have your CNET: assigned. - If AMaint is set to create(or copy) a BackUp to a Floppy Drive, and it is seen that there is no floppy IN the drive, the archive will create (or copy) into the "CNetAmigaBackUp/" directory, instead of "cnet:" as was used in v2.00. -- v2.0 -- - This version fixed a bunch of things: - It should now be near impossible to enter a WRONG value somewhere, or for a filename to be entered for a file which does NOT exist. - Using the PRAGMA() command, the FLOPPY disk drive is now checked to see if there is a disk IN the drive, WITHOUT giving you the dreaded REQUESTOR! (In the AMAINT Module, if you forget to put a floppy disk in your destination drive, the archive will be copied into your CNET: directory, so you don't LOSE it!) - All uses of the MCI-$ command were replaced with ADDRESS COMMAND, so as to function correctly on some A=4000 systems. - The Floppy Drives are now read in as soon as you first enter the file, so specifying the "F" command is NOT needed to get started. - These are the NEW features added since the first release: - An "ALL" option has been added to the ADD FILES routine, so that there is now a QUICK way to add ALL the files in a given directory. - Default choices have been built in, as well as some rewording of some commands to conform to some of my other works. - You can now also use the CNET RANGES with the EDIT command, as well as the KILL command. - Log files are created whenever a BackUp is performed. The log file is stored in "SysData:Log/" & uses the same filename as the config file. It contains the LHA-Testing of the archived backup file, as well as the filenote info, which was stamped as the archived file's description when created. - A quicker, more organized approach to some of the code was used, as well as a slightly more intelligent error checking routine, which will now also show you the LINE the error occurred on, as well as the line number, error number and description. - Release Date: June 20, 1994! -- v1.0 BETA -- - The first version released on Future World BBS. - Release Date: June 21, 1993! ============================================================================ Frontiers BBS (716)/823-9892! ============================================================================