Changes compared to 17.8.5 and 17.9.2
New Features
- Start a restore on Comet Backup, remotely via Comet Server's web interface
- Option to hide Comet logo in the top-right corner of the Comet Backup interface
- Allow editing Before/After commands in Comet Backup
Enhancements
- 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)
- Minor performance improvement for uploading to Spanned storage
- Build PIC binaries on Linux
Bug Fixes
- Fix an issue with reconnecting to SFTP servers
- Fix an issue with not logging errors when using external SSH authentication for SFTP storage in Comet Server
- Fix an issue with false positive antivirus detection when Comet Backup loads fallback shims for very old versions of Powershell
- Fix an issue with some types of errors not appearing in the job report for Import tasks in Comet Backup
- Fix an issue that could cause the import process to fail for newly created Comet accounts
- Fix an issue with Before/After commands not covering initialisation / retention operations on Storage Vaults
- Fix an issue with error propagation if Comet Server loses connection to a storage location
- Fix a cosmetic issue with inconsistent responses when Comet Server encounters an internal error handling an API request
- Fix a cosmetic issue with live-connected-device actions in the Comet Server web interface if no schedules were configured for a device
- Fix a cosmetic issue with overly tall dialog windows in the Comet Server web interface