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17.11.0 ‘Luna’ released

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Changes compared to 17.8.8

New Features

  • Support backing up Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines
  • Bulk Update
  • Italian translation
  • German translation
  • French translation
  • New Spanish translation
  • Display live upload/download amounts in Comet Backup during backup and restore tasks
  • Display live progress status in Comet Server for user's backup and restore tasks
  • Display replication speed and ETA in Comet Server
  • Display change-direction indicator for the replication queue in Comet Server
  • Display current/outdated software version status on the homepage online status widget in Comet Server
  • Start a restore on Comet Backup, remotely via Comet Server's web interface
  • Copy and paste Protected Item configurations between devices and accounts in Comet Server
  • Allow editing email addresses from within Comet Backup
  • Allow editing Before/After commands in Comet Backup
  • Change user account password in Comet Backup
  • Advanced option to remotely unlock Storage Vault for a live-connected device
  • Support multiple SSL certificates on the same IP/port pair in Comet Server
  • Support Comet Backup for Linux on ARM CPU (armv7l +vfp)
  • Option to revoke a device from Comet Server
  • Option to hide Comet logo in the top-right corner of the Comet Backup interface
  • Option to skip this scheduled backup if a job is already running for the same Protected Item and Storage Vault
  • Option to stop a scheduled backup if it runs for longer than a certain time limit
  • Options to display Protected Item count, Storage Vault count, Storage Vault quota, and online device count on the Users page in Comet Server
  • Option to remove saved username, password, and server URL settings when uninstalling Comet Backup
  • Browse and create new B2 buckets from within Comet Backup
  • New account policy option to prevent editing email addresses within Comet Backup
  • New account policy option to prevent end-users from opening the Comet Backup application interface
  • Policy option to prevent users from deleting single snapshots from a Storage Vault
  • Policy option to prevent changing user account passwords
  • Policy option to prevent viewing other device computer names

Enhancements

  • Do not charge for devices with no protected items, such as restore-only devices
  • Allow at/period characters in usernames
  • Significant performance improvement for scanning incremental backup jobs and/or scanning restore content when using high-latency cloud storage (for Storage Vaults created with Comet 17.9.3 or later)
  • Performance improvement for restoring a custom file selection, for data backed up with Comet 17.9.0 or later
  • Performance improvement for scanning replica content ("full scan" phase)
  • Performance improvement for replicating storage data on high-latency connections by increasing thread count
  • Minor performance improvement for retention cleanup passes for Storage Vaults with a long tenure
  • Minor performance improvement for viewing large lists in the main Comet Backup interface
  • Minor performance improvement for data upload to a high-latency Comet Server Storage Role
  • Minor performance improvement for uploads to Backblaze B2
  • Minor performance improvement for client-side content enumeration when Comet Server is using cloud storage
  • Minor performance improvement for uploading to Spanned storage
  • Improve performance for downloading software client after the first time
  • Improve startup performance of VSS-Aware Component backup jobs and of browsing VSS components in Comet Backup
  • Reduce memory usage for some types of storage destinations by coalescing some types of upload buffer
  • Build PIC binaries on Linux
  • Enable backup of system tables for MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL 'master' table is always backed up in FULL mode)
  • Enable multi-lingual support when editing Protected Items and Storage Vaults in Comet Server
  • Expand translation coverage
  • Filter available data locations according to user policy when editing Storage Vault inside Comet Server
  • Automatically detect more already-compressed filetypes
  • Automatically select last Storage Vault when running a manual backup in Comet Server
  • Automatically select port 3306 if no MySQL port is configured
  • Support Exchange EDB enumeration and backup operations in environments where powershell execution is blocked
  • Add bulk emailing disclaimer to plaintext format of backup report email messages
  • Allow editing saved commands on Protected Items and Storage Vaults in Comet Server
  • Display progress bar during Comet Server Setup Wizard
  • Display the number of replica targets and name any failing replicas when initialising replication in Comet Server
  • Improve reliability of uploads to a Comet Server destination by retrying at least 3 times even if this would exceed the normal time-based retry bounds
  • Improve reliability of VDI configuration requests when backing up Microsoft SQL Server by extending timeouts and retrying when timeouts are exceeded
  • Improve reliability of full-scan retention phases in Comet Server by expanding retry limits before the phase is abandoned
  • Retry replication metadata requests at a much finer granularity, allowing for less progress to be lost upon replication failure

Changes compared to 17.9.9

Enhancements

  • Improve reliability of uploads to a Comet Server destination by retrying at least 3 times even if this would exceed the normal time-based retry bounds
  • Display the number of replica targets and name any failing replicas when initialising replication in Comet Server
  • Improve reliability of VDI configuration requests when backing up Microsoft SQL Server by extending timeouts and retrying when timeouts are exceeded
  • Improve reliability of full-scan retention phases in Comet Server by expanding retry limits before the phase is abandoned

Bug Fixes

  • Fix an issue with correctly forming URLs to Comet Server addresses configured in Storage Vault properties if a trailing slash was missing
  • Fix an issue with not retrying uploads to a Comet Server destination that produced "HTTP 500" error messages
  • Fix an issue with "packindex missing file" errors when performing retention cleanups after a backup job was cancelled or interrupted in the past
  • Fix an issue with "invalid request ''" errors when browsing files to restore in Comet Backup
  • Fix an issue with missing codesigning on some executable files in Comet Server for Windows
  • Fix an issue with "Skipping the data of table mysql.event" error messages when backing up MySQL servers with Comet Backup
  • Fix an issue with the "Restrict available Storage Vault types" policy when editing B2 and Spanned Storage Vault types inside Comet Server
  • Fix an issue with unpacking the Comet Backup software installer on CentOS 5 where tar is missing the J flag
  • Fix an issue with not retrying uploads to OpenStack Swift destinations
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with warning messages when backing up to a Local Path Storage Vault without configuring any path
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with displaying an empty widget in Comet Server if there are users but no devices
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with blank lines appearing in the server log files in Comet Server
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with unclear error messages when Comet Backup is prevented from installing a downloaded update
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with unclear error messages when a full-scan replication phase is restarted
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with instructions when trying to install Comet Backup on an RPM-based Linux distribution without xz installed