Backup Watcher for MySQL 1.9.8.9

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[!] An important remark
[+] Innovation
[-] Corrected mistake
[*] Changes
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v.1.9.8.9
[+] The bug, which appeared when trying to save message to the log file, was fixed.
[-] Minor bugs fixed.

v.1.9.8.3
[+] We have added and tested compatibility of the product with MySQL servers up to and including v. 5.0.41.
[-] Minor bugs fixed.

v.1.9.8.2
[+] We have added and tested compatibility of the product with MySQL servers up to and including v. 5.0.37.
[-] Minor bugs fixed.

v.1.9.8.0
[-] The mistake, which appeared when turning on/off the autolaunch function in Windows Vista, was successfully fixed.
[-] Problems of backup from servers with version number, lower than 4.1.x, was solved.
[+] Now installation file of the program contains an animated tutorial - Quick Guide.
[-] Minor bugs fixed.

v.1.9.7.0
[*] Profile format was changed. Incompatible with the old one.
[+] Databases and tables tree now contains full databases structures.
[+] The combobox with a list of macro variables was added to the wizard.
[-] The option, which added tables names into backup file name, was removed.
[-] The mistake of specifying incorrect template for the backup file name was fixed.
[-] The mistake of backuping the whole database, when only several tables are selected, was fixed.
[-] The log mistake was corrected.
[-] Minor bugs fixed.

v.1.9.6.1
[-] The bug, which appeared when trying to save program settings without choosing a language was fixed.
[-] Fixed I/O error into the script file when the checkbox "Add to received script "CREATE DATABASE..." command" is not checked.

v.1.9.6.0
[-] Corrected the mistake of a network backuping.
[-] Corrected the mistake of backup compression.
[-] Corrected the mistake in archive file name.
[*] The program activation scheme was changed.

v1.9.5
[!] Compatibility with severs, starting with version 3.23.x, was retained.
[+] Backup engine was completely rewritten.
[+] In this version the support of representation saving was added.
[+] In this version the support of stored procedures saving was added.
[+] The support of stored functions saving was added.
[+] The support of events saving was added.
[+] The support of saving user-defined functions was added.
[+] Now you can specify, how many data rows are to be put into one INSERT INTO operator (by default it is "0", i.e. all rows of one table are put into one INSERT INTO operator).
[+] A powerful system of error reports generation was introduced in this version of the product.
[+] The application was tested on MySQL servers till version 5.1.х.
[+] The wizard was made more convenient. Additional parameters are now available on separate forms.
[+] Feature which allaws to point out databases and tables list manually was added.
[*] The support of backup via HTTP protocol was removed from this version.

v1.9.3.4
[-] Corrected the mistake, now when user stops backup button "Run" becomes enabled.
[-] Corrected the mistake in backuping unchosen tables.

v1.9.3.3
[-] During the backup of empty databases and tables the profile remained launched. Now this bug is successfully fixed.
[-] Corrected the mistake, which appeared at checking the second application copy launch under Windows 2003 server.
[-] The mistake of creating mutex in the Windows 2003 server environment was successfully corrected.
[-] Corrected the few minor bugs.

v1.9.3.2
[-] Corrected the few minor bugs of the registration procedure.

v1.9.3.1 from 06.06.2006
[-] Corrected the mistake of automatic removal of the file with default name "New".
[-] Corrected the mistake, when double click on the Wizard window header maximized the Wizard.
[-] Corrected the mistake of creating only the header of the resulting file after the backup process.
[-] Views are removed from the tables list for backup. Now there are only real tables.
[-] Corrected the mistake, which has to deal with presense of the system databases in the backup list.

v1.9.2.1 from 04.05.2006
[-] The bug of setting the backup type was successfully fixed.
[-] Corrected the mistake of unavailability of Wizard pages during profile creation/editing.
[-] Fixed some bugs with views.

v1.9.2 from 28.03.2006
[+] (ATTENTION - EXPERIMENTAL) Added the support of SSL protocol connection with server. Server must support this protocol.
[!] Version is compatible with MySQL servers up to version 5.0.17
[-] Fixed some bugs.

v1.9.1.2 from 11.01.2006
[-] Corrected the mistake of big databases backup
[+] Information about current backup is shown in the status bar
[+] Added charset selection in the profile adjustment
[*] Backup adjustments are now in every individual profile, not in the common one
[-] Fixed the bag of turning on/off the autostart in the program settings

v1.9.0 from 09.12.2005
[*] Completely changed registration scheme (it was made much more easier for understanding)
[*] Backup engine was completely rewritten and tested with MySQL 5.0.15
[*] Program interface was considerably improved
[*] The scheme of keeping program work files was modified (according to modern Windows OS safety requirements)
[*] Restoring was changed - now restoring procedure has no restrictions as for the script file size
[*] Backup is now adjusted for EACH PROFILE SEPARATELY, not for all profiles
[-] Fixed some bugs.

v1.8.3 from 12.05.2005
[+] Added menu item "Help/Send an e-mail to Support Team", which automatically forms a letter template for user's problem description.
[+] The program now automatically generates a letter with a report about run-time errors.
[-] Changed the registration letter template (added some info).
[-] Fixed some bugs.

v1.8.2 from 07.02.2005
[-] Added and tested the support of the MySQL-server v. 4.1.9
[-] Some bugs are fixed in the Restoring service

v1.8.1 from 20.01.2005
[+] The program can now work with the version 4.1.7 of MySQL-server.
[-] Fixed some bugs.

v1.7.5 from 13.09.2004
[+] Now you can backup not only the database as a whole, but specified tables as well.
[*] Tables and fields names are now written with inverted commas. This allows to use any words (including MySQL key words) as names.
[-] The bug, which appeared at using in the user's password symbols like #, was fixed.
[-] A small bug at calling the Settings window was fixed.

v1.7.4 from 05.07.2004
[+] The remote backup mechanism was improved

v1.7.3 from 03.06.2004
[+] An opportunity was added to edit a profile through the tabs.
[+] Language resources were added.
[*] Some program settings were improved. (Flush Log settings and locking tables before backup settings)
[-] Some small bugs in displaying of control elements in the scheduler were fixed.

v1.7.2 from 09.04.2004
[+] The support of big amounts of information at compression was added. Now you can compress files with the size more than 4 Gb.
[-] Some small bugs were fixed.
[+] We added the checkbox "Blocking of the table before the dump" to the backup adjustments.
[*] The interface of the "Tip of the day" was changed.
[-] The mistake, which appeared at entering the user's note string, was corrected.
[+] We added a more detailed mistake diagnostics into the script at the remote backup.

v1.7.1 from 22.02.2004
[+] The algoritm of profiles editing/creating was changed.
[+] The button "Manual launch" was added. And the corresponding record can be seen in the column "Next launch".
[*] The algoritm of wizard buttons interaction was changed.
[+] The menu item "Create profile copy" was added.
[*] The popup menu calling for the group operations with scheduler buttons was changed. Now the menu is called by the buttons.
[*] The profiles wizard behaviour at an unsuccessful attempt to connect to the database in the mode of local backup was changed.

v1.7.0 from 05.11.2003
[+] The help system was essentially corrected and enlarged.
[*] The backup mechanism was completely changed.
[*] The interface of the form "Settings" was changed.
[*] Algoritm and implementation of the scheduler were completely rewritten.
[-] Mistake in the work of scheduler was corrected.

v1.6.1 from 04.10.2003
[-] The mistake of launching several profiles at one and the same execution time was corrected.
[-] The mistake of displaying the profiles' status pictures was corrected.

v1.6.0 from 30.07.2003
[!] The name of the program was changed to Backup Watcher for MySQL.
[*] The engine of zip-compression has been improved.
[-] Some bugs have been fixed.

v1.5.5 from 03.06.2003
[+] The possibility of creating folders using macro-varibles is added.
[-] Some bugs have been fixed.

v1.5.4 from 27.03.2003
[*] The script for the remote archiving was upgraded.
[*] The format of the language resource file was changed. The prompts are now situated in this file as well.

v1.5.4 from 21.02.2003
[+] The possibility of archiving separate selected tables of the database was added.
[+] The possibility of manual clearing of the log-file was added.
[+] You can choose in the settings whether to show or not table names in the name of the archive file, if the table is archived partially.

v1.5.3 from 16.01.2003
[+] The interface language is now changed without reloading of the program.
[*] The style of the installation program was changed a bit.

v1.5.3 from 9.01.2003
[+] The Multilanguage support was added. You can translate names of the program elements and contents of the messages.
[-] The mistake at registration of the application (when the trial period was over) was corrected.
[!] When there are no language files the interface of the program will be in English, and instead of the messages you will see the mistakes diagnostics of the language files absence.

v1.5.2 from 23.11.2002
[+] Some icons were added to the log according to the types of messages in order to increase self-descriptiveness of the log.

v1.5.2 from 23.11.2002
[+] There was added a possibility of specifying the time of backup copies keeping (when this time is over, the old backup copies will be removed).

v1.5.2 from 22.11.2002
[*] The records displaying into the log for the remote backup was corrected.
[*] The records displaying into the log for the local backup was corrected.
[*] The indication of the quantity of received information for the remote backup was made.
[*] The record saving into the log at the short and detailed form of recording was corrected.

v1.5.1 from 11.11.2002
[-] The mistake at formatting of the users commentaries in the local profile was corrected.
[+] The catalog creation for the backup was added (for the cases when at the next attempt of backup the catalog, specified in the profile, wasn't found).
[-] At adding of the users' commentaries in the local backup mode, only the first line of the script was commented. It is corrected now.

v1.4.3 from 10.11.2002
[*] Settings form code was changed.
[+] There was added an option of switching the automatic choice in the profiles list.
[+] Saving of the splitter's position was added.
[+] The user can specify the line which will be the first to be added into the generated SQL-script.
[+] The user can specify his own symbol for commenting the remarks.
[!] ATTENTION! The standard symbols for commenting the remarks in the MySQL databases are "#" , "-- " (after two hyphens there MUST BE A SPACE).

v1.4.3 from 03.11.2002
[-] At selecting of the data compression in the profile, only the last database was compressed. It is corrected now.
[+] The "smart" backup was added. If the "smart" backup is selected, then ALL the databases will be saved by default, except those intentionally unmarked. Besides that, all newly created databases will be saved AUTOMATICALLY.

v1.4.1 from 28.10.2002
[+] There was added backup from the remote database (even if it is protected by the firewall). For this you should put the script mysql_backup.php to the remote server. Details are described in the Help.
[!] Data of the bases are transferred without encrypting!

v1.4.0 from 10.06.2002
[*] The interface was changed completely and was made more understandable;
[+] The scheduler was added;
[*] The mistake at launching the program was corrected ("Can't connect to the MySQL server").

v1.1.0 from 17.05.2002
[*] The backup algorithm was optimized.
[+] The interface was improved. Additional backup settings were added.

v1.0.0 from 04.03.2002
[+] The first version of the program.