0.1.5-beta

Prerelease for Windows 10/11 x64.

• own-backup-install.exe — setup wizard in English and Russian: installs the program for all users and starts its backup service; needs administrator rights. It installs over an earlier version, keeping settings and jobs.

Added

• Tools assign and remove drive letters of hidden system partitions (EFI, recovery) and show the disk model.
• When writing to the backup disk stops moving — a failing or disconnected disk that answers with errors — the job panel says so after two minutes. Cancelling such a run works and frees the queue even while the write itself hangs; the unfinished file publishes nothing.
• The job panel says that the source is an encrypted volume and that the copy holds it decrypted, with a warning when the copy is not encrypted.
• The full license texts of all third-party components are installed next to the program (THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt).

Changed

• The boot medium's taskbar speaks the language of Windows from the start.
• The EFI partition scan tells Acronis loaders apart and recognises the program's own boot environment.

Fixed

• VHDX and qcow2 are written under a private name and get their real one only when finished. A service stopped while excluded files were being deleted used to leave a half-made image that looked like a finished version and became the parent of the next increment, and after such a crash old copies of that job stopped being cleaned up.
• After an interrupted exclusion pass in an OBK, the next run also removes its scratch file.
• A run that could not be written into the program's history is marked on the job panel and written before the next run.
• Exclusions work again on XFS made by mkfs.xfs 6.x (nrext64) — such volumes used to be copied without them. True removal on XFS no longer backs off from the reverse-mapping tree: on the test set it deletes 1369 of 1403 files instead of 172.
• Restoring from a new boot medium brings back the boot loader of an older Windows too.
• Restoring on the medium no longer says the disk is not connected before the password is entered, nor warns about another machine because of the WinPE machine name.
• Without WebView2, the installed program advises installing the runtime rather than rebuilding the boot medium.

Settings and jobs are kept in C:\ProgramData\OwnBackup, the service log in the Logs folder next to the program. The window needs the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime: Windows 11 has it, and the installer says so if a Windows 10 does not.

License: PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0; third-party components keep their own licenses. The checksum of the file is in SHA256SUMS.txt.