Overview of your Comet Setup

The backup software consists of two components:

• Comet Management Console, a server-side application that manages user accounts and stores backup data; and
• Comet Backup, a client-side application that performs backup and restore operations on a user's device.

The Comet Management Console runs on a designated computer and acts to manage, control, and monitor backup jobs from client devices.

The Comet Management Console is offered in two packages:

• Self-Hosted, in which you install Comet Console on your own hardware. More details on the features of the Self-Hosted Console product page.
• Comet-Hosted, in which you access a managed instance of Comet running on Amazon AWS. More details on the features of the Comet-Hosted Management Console product page.

To get started with Comet, you first need to set up a Comet Management Console, which is covered next.