disParity Beta Release Notes

Changes in version 0.41 beta released Sunday, November 2, 2014

Fixed problems with changing the parity drive location in the Options dialog.
The drive scan algorithm has been optimized to significantly reduce memory usage for drives that have lots of files.
A warning is now displayed if the user attempts to add the system drive (typically C:) to the backup.
Error messagsing for the case where the temp parity location runs out of disk space has been improved to make it clear which drive is out of space.

Changes in version 0.40 beta released Sunday, May 4, 2014

This beta introduces a new "automatic update" feature which allows disParity to keep your backup up to date while running unattended. Use of the feature is optional. To configure automatic updates, press "Options..." and switch to the "Automatic Updates" tab. The "monitor drives for changes" box must be checked in order for the feature to be active. By default, the "Indicate changes have occurred but take no further action" option is selected. This means disParity will indicate when it detects changes on a drive, but updates must still be run manually by the user. After that, there are 3 possible modes for automatic updates. The first mode runs the update a configurable number of minutes after the last change has occurred. This means the update will not run as long as changes are still occurring. The second mode runs an automatic update every X number of hours, where X is configurable. The final mode allows you to set a once daily time for automatic updates to run (e.g. 2 AM.) Note that in all 3 modes, the update will only actually run if changes have been detected on one or more drives since the last update.
The log file can now be viewed directly from within disParity by pressing the new "Show Log" button in the main window. The window can be left open while disParity is running to show new entries as they are written to the log. Any errors encountered by disParity will be highlighted in red in the log window.
Attempts to cancel the initial update will now show a warning first that all parity data will be lost.