Changes compared to 18.9.9
New Features
- Optional columns for current Protected Item and Storage Vault size on the Users page in the Comet Server web interface
Enhancements
- Always exclude /dev/ directory on Linux and macOS
Bug Fixes
- Fix an issue with not retrying on some network errors to S3 and S3-compatible storage
- Fix an issue with "null" when adding or editing email addresses for a user in the Comet Server web interface
- Fix a cosmetic issue with extra outlines when switching tabs on the user page in the Comet Server web interface in Firefox
- Fix a cosmetic issue with overflowing field lines when editing Schedule settings in the Comet Server web interface in Firefox
Changes compared to 18.8.7
New Features
- Support FIDO U2F keys for two-factor login to the Comet Server web interface as administrator
- New custom email report system
- Support scheduled email reports for customers
- Support configuring default email reports via Policy
- Custom job search queries in the Comet Server web interface
- Policy option to prevent users enabling/disabling the "Allow administrator to reset password" option
- Option to disable sending scheduled email reports
- Optional columns for current Protected Item and Storage Vault size on the Users page in the Comet Server web interface
- Allow uploading branding files directly in the Setup Wizard in the Comet Server web interface
- Allow browsing snapshots for restore in the Comet Server web interface
- Allow defining a job filter for email reports
- Allow defining multiple email reports per recipient email address in a single user account
- Allow editing existing Mandatory Exclusions in policies in the Comet Server web interface
- Allow administrators to change their own security settings, passwords, and U2F registrations on the My Account page in the Comet Server web interface
- Diagnostic option to separate devices that were incorrectly identified as the same on Windows
- Display email queue length and success/failure statistics on the About this Server page in the Comet Server web interface
- Add optional "simple" mode to Comet Server stats API endpoint, to coalesce some redundant data points
Enhancements
- Support importing schedule names from Ahsay v6
- Support SQLNCLI11 provider to connect to Microsoft SQL Server instances
- Support MSOLEDBSQL provider to connect to Microsoft SQL Server instances mandating TLS 1.2
- Allow selecting multiple files in the "Add single file" dialog for "Files and Folders" Protected Items in Comet Backup
- Allow searching jobs by duration, time since started
- Allow editing existing email addresses in the Comet Server web interface
- Allow maximising the restore dialog window in Comet Backup
- Minor performance improvement for loading the Comet Server web interface
- Improve performance for locating data within Spanned backends
- Improve performance of loading the dashboard homepage in the Comet Server web interface
- Improve performance and reduce memory usage for saving index files into Storage Vaults, particularly during retention passes
- Improve performance of loading the Protected Item editor, Storage Vault editor, and Setup Wizard in the Comet Server web interface
- Improve performance of starting Storage Vault operations in Comet Backup
- Improve performance of reusing existing tree objects in repository and of managing temporary pack files
- Improve performance of loading the "Select files" screen in Comet Backup
- Reduce memory usage required for compressing large index files
- Reduce memory usage needed for email reports
- Reduce memory usage needed to construct backup job report emails
- Reduce memory usage needed to load index files, construct file and directory trees during backup
- Reduce memory usage needed to browse files for restore in Comet Backup
- Change the default Requestable Destination name to "Storage provided by (your company name)"
- Cosmetic unify the Setup Wizard, Protected Item editor design in the Comet Server web interface
- Cosmetic redesign the My Account page in the Comet Server web interface
- Cosmetic redesign the web-based restore dialog to more closely match the Comet Backup app
- Cosmetic add text label to column-selection button in the Comet Server web interface
- Cosmetic redesign email security options in the Comet Server Setup Wizard to match more common Outlook/Thunderbird option values
- Cosmetic display measurement timestamps, refresh progress for bucket sizes in the Comet Server web interface
- Cosmetic remove TOTP box on login form (TOTP will be prompted if required)
- Cosmetic simplify the job query filter interface
- Support additional fallback methods for finding Exchange Server install directory
- Improve SFTP server compatibility
- Default to showing the most recent page of server logs in the Comet Server web interface
- Show fractional quota bars in the Storage Vault table in the Comet Server web interface
- Use newer Qt library on Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 and later. The Comet installer includes both versions and will choose automatically.
- Show tray icon at all times, even when Comet Backup is not logged in or only running in the background (app locked)
- Unify Comet Backup login credentials across all OS user accounts
- Add plain-text URL as extra information to AdminAccountRegenerateTotp API
- Record the name of your token hardware when registering U2F tokens in the Comet Server web interface
- Display icons for Protected Items and Storage Vaults in the job filter bar in Comet Backup
- Reduce CPU usage when calculating data chunk positions
- Hide Comet Server web interface from search engines
- Always exclude /dev/ directory on Linux and macOS