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· 2 min read

Changes compared to 22.3.5

New Features

Comet Backup supports many different cloud storage providers (e.g. SFTP or S3-compatible) if you bring your own storage credentials. If you have configured Comet Backup to back up directly to a cloud storage provider, you should avoid reusing storage credentials across customers. For each customer, you should either create new cloud storage credentials manually; or proxy the data through Comet Server Storage Role; or ideally, have Comet Server allocate new cloud storage credentials automatically. Previous versions of Comet Server supported this "Requestable" provisioning for Backblaze B2, Wasabi Cloud Storage, and custom HTTP integrations. The latest version of Comet Server extends this support to Amazon AWS and to custom IAM-compatible cloud services.

  • Feature: Allow selecting Amazon AWS as a Requestable storage target

  • Feature: Allow selecting "Custom IAM-Compatible" as a Requestable storage target

· One min read

Changes compared to 22.3.4

Enhancements

  • Hourly schedule configuration could be run on specific days and within a specified time

  • Individual paths for Files and Folders Protected Items can now be edited in the Comet Backup desktop app

Bug Fixes

  • Fix an issue with the time zone of Synology devices being detected by Comet as UTC even when the device is set to another time zone

  • Fix an issue with email reporting table allowing duplicate email entries

  • Fix an issue with Office 365 where Comet could crash due to incorrect parsing of error response
  • Fix an issue with Office 365 when OneDrive files or folders are restored to filesystem
  • Fix an issue with 'Once Only' schedule type which displays 'Invalid Date' when default values are kept

  • Fix an issue with tab order of the Schedule editor dialog in the Desktop client which now runs from top to bottom, left to right

· One min read

Changes compared to 22.3.3

Bug Fixes

  • Fix an issue with the new macOS codesigning toolchain on Comet Server for Linux if the cometd user account has no writeable home directory
  • Fix an issue with panics occurring if there is a network error during the initial login process when installing the Comet Backup desktop application
  • Fix an issue causing the Comet Server web interface to crash when clicking "Restore" on the final page of the Restore wizard
  • Fix an issue with inaccurate subprocess exit codes returned from the backup.elevator service
  • Fix an issue with Utimesnano warnings when restoring the timestamp of the /Users directory on macOS

· One min read

Changes compared to 22.3.2

New Features

  • Option to codesign macOS client software installer directly. When this option is enabled, Comet Server will perform macOS codesigning locally, without requiring SSH access to a macOS system.

  • Added a new Getting Started guide which walks new Comet Server admins through the first steps of running a Comet Server, from adding their first user to downloading and installing the Comet Backup desktop client to running a backup job. This guide appears the first time an admin logs into a new server and can be dismissed at any time.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix an issue with generating an uncompressed package when signing the macOS client installer by SSH
  • Fix an issue with malformed folder entries inside *.xar archives when creating an unsigned macOS client installer
  • Fix an cosmetic issue with logo positioning on the Comet Server web interface navigation bar
  • Fix an issue with the cancel button on macOS not working due to a missing tmp file
  • Fix a crash that can occur if Comet encounters an error while performing an Office 365 backup

· One min read

This version contains an important security bugfix. Please upgrade as soon as possible.

Changes compared to 22.2.0

Bug Fixes

  • Fix a security issue with cross-Tenant information disclosure
  • Fix an issue with excessive logging of "Excluding system path '.../@eaDir' when running backup jobs on Synology NAS clients
  • Fix an issue where enabling and disabling SSH access on a DSM 6 Synology NAS is necessary to allow the Synology SPK to install correctly

· One min read

This version contains an important security bugfix. Please upgrade as soon as possible.

Changes compared to 22.3.1

Bug Fixes

  • Fix a security issue with cross-Tenant information disclosure
  • Fix an issue where enabling and disabling SSH access on a DSM 6 Synology NAS is necessary to allow the Synology SPK to install correctly

· 2 min read

Changes compared to 22.2.0

New Features

  • Support sending a bulk upgrade to a custom query of users
  • Option to choose whether a bulk upgrade campaign overrides/interrupts any running backup jobs or not
  • Support separate 'Find' and 'Find and Replace' modes on the advanced 'Bulk Replace Addresses' page in the Comet Server web interface
  • Some job and device metadata is now available as environment variables in Before/After commands
  • New backup-tool command to output the unique device ID

· 6 min read

Elara is the latest entry in our quarterly rollup series. It branches off from our main rolling Voyager development, into a fixed target for our partners to qualify and build upon.

Comet Elara takes its name from another moon of Jupiter - It is the eighth largest Jovian satellite, and is named after Elara, one of Zeus’ lovers. It was discovered on 5 January 1905.

Elara brings 12 features and 24 enhancements, including a new Settings page in the Comet Server web interface; support for WebAuthn as a 2FA method; and single file or folder restore for Disk Image backups. All users of the previous quarterly series 21.11.x ‘Himalia’ and earlier are encouraged to upgrade, but we’re happy for them to continue using older quarterly versions if they are not experiencing any issues.

As always for a new quarterly release, there are two changelogs for 22.2.0 ‘Elara’ depending on whether you are coming from the previous quarterly or the previous Voyager.

Changes compared to 21.11.3

  • Terminology: 'Organisations' are now 'Tenants'
  • Deprecation: Comet Server no longer supports Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. Note that the Comet Backup desktop app continues to support Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008; this only affects Comet Server. Windows Server 2008 R2 is still supported for both Comet Server and the Comet Backup desktop app.
  • Deprecation: Removed support for U2F for two-factor authentication for admin users due to the removal of U2F from browsers (read more here). Existing U2F 2FA will be automatically migrated to use WebAuthn when the Comet Server instance is upgraded; this requires no action on an admin's part, and the same U2F devices can continue to be used.

New Features

  • Replaced the Comet Server web interface Setup Wizard with a Settings page
  • Add option to create ISO file as the recovery media in the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Added support for WebAuthn for two-factor authentication for admin users, including support for Windows Hello Face / Fingerprint / PIN, Android SafetyNet / Fingerprint and other Hardware Security Keys
  • Add new wizard for synchronizing time zone in the recovery environment
  • Added three new S3-compatible storage providers: Digital Ocean, Catalyst Cloud, and Cynny Space
  • Added Test Connection button to verify Storage Role credentials in the Comet Server web interface settings screen
  • Add the new schedule option "If last job was Missed" to allow a backup job to run as soon as the Comet client is reconnected when there are missed jobs
  • Support to restore single files and folders from Disk Image backup on both Comet Backup desktop app and Comet Server web interface (current only support for NTFS)
  • Support for generating Synology SPKs for DSM 6 and DSM 7 for the Comet command line client, which can be used instead of the generic .tar.gz installer for Synology NAS devices. SPKs integrate with the Synology package center and are not removed by DSM upgrades.
  • Add a quick search component to the admin web interface. Storage Vaults, Protected Items and User Profiles can be searched for
  • Allow configuring how often a retention pass runs after a backup job
  • Support to restore single file and folder from VMDK snapshot as archive (zip, tar, tar.gz, and sqfs) and download only

· 2 min read

Changes compared to 21.12.7

New Features

  • Feature: Support to restore single file and folder from VMDK snapshot as archive (zip, tar, tar.gz, and sqfs) and download only

Disk Image snapshots can now restore individual files as a compressed archive.