# Drive Snapshot - What's new

#### 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

fixes a bug in 1.41 when using the combination of 'Restore during reboot' and 'Reboot on Success'.
Sorry.

#### 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

older versions of Drive Snapshot (1.35 and earlier) do NOT work with Windows 2003 SP1

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]

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