Changes compared to 19.6.8
- Relax warnings from the automatic retention system to provide more smooth transition in the 19.8.0 series; will be reinstated for 19.9.x Voyager
New Features
- Support using PKCS12 (*.pfx / *.p12) certificate files when configuring HTTPS in Comet Server
Enhancements
- Update the Request Storage Vault APIs to include the created Storage Vault ID in response
- Prevent use of port 80 with HTTPS, port 443 with HTTP in the Setup Wizard in both the Comet Server Service Manager app and in the Comet Server web interface
Bug Fixes
- Fix an issue with slow performance of incremental backup jobs of the drive root if VSS is enabled
- Fix an issue with not showing the Server Self-Backup page in the Setup Wizard in the Comet Server web interface if the Constellation Role was disabled
- Fix an issue with measuring remaining free space in Local Path directories in Comet Server, affecting the choice of where to store Spanned data
- Fix an issue with "split" error messages in the Comet Server web interface
- Fix an issue with the Vault Analysis dialog crashing in the Comet Server web interface
- Fix an issue with not cleaning up old Abandoned jobs exceed the configured age limit, if they were created prior to Comet 19.6.x
- Fix an issue with automatic logins to Comet Server
- Fix an issue with not properly excluding dropbox cache placeholder files on Windows
- Fix a cosmetic issue with missing text in the View dropdown on the Vault Analysis dialog in the Comet Server web interface
- Fix a cosmetic issue with not finding a job report for email report preview in the Comet Server web interface if the only matching report took place in the past
- Fix a cosmetic issue with unnecessary security prompts for login attempts to the Comet Server that were initiated from the Comet Server itself
- Fix a cosmetic issue with missing translations on the multi-user add dialog
- Fix a cosmetic issue with timezone display for Server Self-Backup schedules in the Comet Server web interface
Changes compared to 19.5.4
- Non-regex exclusions are now case-insensitive on Windows
New Features
- Self-Backup for Comet Server configuration and user databases
- Support "login as user" advanced action when viewing a user's detail page as an administrator from the Comet Server web interface
- Support bulk adding multiple user accounts from CSV in the Comet Server web interface
- Support requesting new direct-to-cloud credentials for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
- Support direct hotlinks to client software downloads
- Support Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage as a Constellation target, to clean up directly requested credentials
- Support searching for jobs based on report line count, report byte size
- Support cancelling backup jobs from the Comet Server web interface when logged in as an end-user
- Support using PKCS12 (*.pfx / *.p12) certificate files when configuring HTTPS in Comet Server
- Updated Russian translation
- Option to choose whether to overwrite files when restoring
- Option to specify SSL intermediate certificate file, instead of having to manually create a combined file
- Option to perform a download-only restore, without saving restored files, for test purposes
- Option to restore to Program Input
- Option to restore multiple files as a streaming tar file
- Allow uploading SSL certificate files in the Setup Wizard in the Comet Server web interface
- Display available network interfaces as dropdown in the Setup Wizard in the Comet Server web interface
- Mark stopped backup jobs as new "Running (revived)" status when receiving new progress information for a stopped job
Enhancements
- Run regular analysis passes, zero-cleanup retention passes even if retention policy is "Keep Forever", after a few weeks
- Improve performance for incremental backup jobs
- Improve performance of loading some files on Spanned storage
- Improve performance of finding parent snapshot for deduplication at the start of a backup job
- Improve performance of preparing to save files on Local Path storage in Comet Backup
- Improve performance of backing up uncompressible filetypes
- Optimize Comet Server on Windows performance for Windows Defender
- Storage Role replication now deletes unknown remote in-bucket content during full sync phase (mode change from 'Partial' to 'Complete')
- Prompt for Account Name and Email Address (optional) when creating new users in the Comet Server web interface
- Automatically use custom hardware/software VSS providers
- Add extra warnings to the Setup Wizard if you use an invalid value for the "Default server login URL" field
- Add a message to the job log if a Storage Vault operation takes too long to finalize
- Load Storage Vault's current retention into the dialog when changing a Protected Item's retention policy away from the default
- Reduce overhead of authenticating requests to Comet Server Storage Role buckets
- Allow searching backup jobs by job end time in the Comet Server web interface
- Use branded filename in "Copy to curl/wget" downloads from the Comet Server web interface
- Allow extra decimal place when configuring a limited upload speed on a backup schedule
- Update the Request Storage Vault APIs to include the created Storage Vault ID in response
- Prevent use of port 80 with HTTPS, port 443 with HTTP in the Setup Wizard in both the Comet Server Service Manager app and in the Comet Server web interface
- Cosmetic redesign the Live Connected Device Actions dialog in the Comet Server web interface
- Cosmetic group "Prevent creating new Protected Item" policy option settings in the Comet Server web interface
- Cosmetic distinguish between "Policy default" and "System default" when viewing user's email settings in the Comet Server web interface
- Set job end time when marking a job as Abandoned status
- Support connecting to a localhost SQL Server instance using an invalid or self-signed SSL certificate
- Support Accept-Language HTTP header for Comet Server API response messages
- Support "TB" as a drop-down option for the "All Protected Items" quota on the User detail page in the Comet Server web interface