Changes compared to 18.3.14
New Features
- Russian translation
- Quick action tiles, and homepage software download links, in the Comet Server web interface
- Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation
- Updated French translation
Enhancements
- Hide unbranded S3 server and bucket names from customer job reports (including Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Wasabi, and S3-compatible)
- When performing software upgrade, add warning message the job log if the customer is very low on disk space (under 500MB)
- Display software codename in Comet Server Service Manager
- Clickable links in the "What's New?" section in the Comet Server web interface
- Improve performance of backing up zero-byte files
- Automatically select 'request first storage vault' when adding a new user in the Comet Server web interface if only one requestable destination is configured
- Reduce memory usage under some error conditions
Bug Fixes
- Fix an issue with not performing retention passes in some multi-device locking situations
- Fix an issue that could cause "Cannot make \foo\bar relative to \foo" error messages when backing up some types of UNC path
- Fix an issue with issuing multiple scheduled jobs in the same second
- Fix an issue with HTTP 409 errors by allowing errant duplicate chunk uploads to Comet Server if upload content exactly matches disk content
- Fix an issue with "expected ## bytes, got 0" error messages when using Backup Operators mode in Comet Backup for Windows
- Fix an issue with non-atomic disk/inode operations when rechecking file sizes using Backup Operators mode in Comet Backup for Windows
- Fix a cosmetic issue with multiple error messages appearing on the same line if two retention passes run at the same time
- Fix a cosmetic issue with displaying non-latin characters in custom branded text in the Comet Backup for Windows installer
- Fix a cosmetic issue with missing help text for macOS in the first-use introduction text in the Comet Server web interface
Changes compared to 18.2.7
Remove the default "Unlimited" quota pie-chart in Comet Backup
Comet Server now always keeps a minimum of 10 days' of job history
New Features
- Client web interface
- Group policies
- Password recovery codes
- Option to limit Storage Vault speed for backup
- Allow configuring storage during the initial setup wizard in Comet Server Service Manager
- Allow importing settings from CrashPlan
- Auto-refresh button when viewing backup job reports in Comet Server web interface
- Automatically clean up old "In Progress" job records that are no longer running
- Automatically unlock Storage Vaults when safe to do so
- Button to copy backup job report content in Comet Server web interface
- Display IP address of live-connected devices in the Comet Server web interface (column is hidden by default)
- Display Protected Item sizes on user detail pages in the Comet Server web interface, linking to job that produced the information
- Display pie-chart rings for Storage Vault quotas in Comet Backup
- Display user account creation time, and allow searching/sorting by user account creation time in the Comet Server web interface
- Group Policy option for mandatory, OS-specific exclusions from "Files and Folders" Protected Items
- Option to configure new Comet Server for Windows installations using your cometbackup.com credentials instead of a serial number
- Option to display ID on job list page, advanced option to navigate directly to job report by ID in the Comet Server web interface
- Option to reduce number of disk access threads during backup
- Option to set duration limit when immediately starting a backup in Comet Backup
- Option to toggle whether the embedded Help page in Comet Backup is embedded, opens in a popup window, or is disabled (leave URL blank)
- Policy option to prevent users from logging in to the client web interface
- Quick action tiles, and homepage software download links, in the Comet Server web interface
- Raw policy editor in the Comet Server web interface
- Russian translation
- Support "Copy (as cURL)" / "Copy (as wget)" when downloading Comet Backup for Linux
- Support Hyper-V backup on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, where Hyper-V module for Powershell is unavailable
- Support backing up "Access denied" files in Comet Backup for Windows if the user account is in the Backup Operators group
- Support cancelling a running job from the Comet Server web interface
- Support importing Microsoft SQL Server Protected Items from AhsayOBM 6.x
- Support renaming devices in the Comet Server web interface
- Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation
- Updated Croatian translation
- Updated French translation
- Updated Spanish translation
- Write job report logs to Windows Event Log in Comet Backup for Windows
Enhancements
- Add a "Stop campaign" button on the Bulk Update page in the Comet Server web interface, replacing active-state checkbox
- Add a warning message if Powershell components for Hyper-V are not installed
- Add explanations for some features on the User page in the Comet Server web interface
- Add proactive defence layers against possible clickjacking and XSS attacks against the Comet Server web interface
- Add standardised Comet Server API endpoint synonyms for software download variants
- Add tooltips for navigation bar icons in the Comet Server web interface
- Allow configuring the option to reduce number of disk access threads in the Comet Server web interface
- Allow linking directly to the downloads page in the Comet Server web interface
- Always use a subdirectory when importing a Local Path Storage Vault from another backup product
- Automatically focus search field on the User list page in the Comet Server web interface
- Automatically select 'request first storage vault' when adding a new user in the Comet Server web interface if only one requestable destination is configured
- Clickable links in the "What's New?" section in the Comet Server web interface
- Cosmetic toggle extraneous columns in the Comet Server web interface, to better fit mobile devices
- Display (always-enabled) compression and deduplication status in Storage Vault property dialogs
- Display an explanation message when failing to take a VSS snapshot of a non-NTFS filesystem
- Display elapsed time for currently running backup jobs in Comet Server job report
- Display message in backup log if the current device is responsible for stale locks in the Storage Vault
- Display number of databases and backup mode in Microsoft SQL Server backup job reports
- Display software codename in Comet Server Service Manager
- Emphasise currently selected language in the dropdown menu in the Comet Server web interface
- Expand the warning message when revoking devices in the Comet Server web interface
- Extend heuristic to avoid compressing more types of already-compressed files during backup
- Hide news header in Comet Backup main screen if no news is present
- Hide unbranded S3 server and bucket names from customer job reports (including Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Wasabi, and S3-compatible)
- Improve compatibility with some types of FTP server
- Improve logging around HTTP 400/500 errors when Comet Server encounters a file upload conflict, or fails to delete/retrieve a file from cloud storage
- Improve message guidance when Comet Server does not start owing to a bad license
- Improve page load performance of the Job History page in the Comet Server web interface by up to 10x
- Improve performance for loading the Comet Server web interface
- Improve performance of backing up zero-byte files
- Improve performance of loading very large job reports in the Comet Server web interface
- Improve performance of taking backups from VSS snapshots, by eliminating some unnecessary disk activity
- Improve responsiveness of cancelling a backup job going to a Comet Server destination
- Improve responsiveness of cancelling some types of backup jobs
- Improve speed of installing Comet Server (remove locales requirement on Debian/Ubuntu; trim NSIS size on Windows)
- Improve webfont loading performance for the Comet Server web interface
- Increase connection limits for server-side cloud storage
- New workflow for managing multiple email addresses for users in the Comet Server web interface
- Reduce idle memory consumption of Comet Server web interface
- Reduce memory usage under some error conditions
- Rename backup types for Microsoft SQL Server, to clarify the behaviour
- Simplified workflow for managing password recovery in the Comet Server web interface
- Simplify network setup and user setup in the Setup Wizard inside Comet Server Service Manager
- Support importing path exclusions from CrashPlan
- Suppress all popups from the embedded Help browser in Comet Backup for Windows
- Try to prevent PC sleeping during backup/restore operations in Comet Backup for Windows
- Use a wizard when creating new Protected Items in Comet Backup
- Use branded filenames when downloading Comet Backup for Windows and Linux
- Validate email address formats when saving changes in the Comet Server web interface
- Warn during an active job if it detects its own lockfile was unexpectedly deleted
- When performing software upgrade, add warning message the job log if the customer is very low on disk space (under 500MB)
- Write Comet Server log files in Notepad-compatible format on Windows