Changes compared to 20.9.5
New Features
- Prompt for Full Disk Access permission on macOS
- Support
/SHORTCUT=disable
command-line parameter andHKLM\Software\backup-tool\Shortcuts
registry key, to prevent creating desktop and Start Menu shortcuts when installing Comet Backup on Windows
Enhancements
- Select Password authentication by default for new SFTP destinations on Windows
Bug Fixes
- Fix an issue with losing a previously-granted Full Disk Access permission on macOS after a remote software upgrade if codesigning was not used
- Fix an issue with some error handling cases for OEM recovery partitions during a Disk Image backup job
- Fix an issue with the
/TOKEN=
parameter if it was used without the/S
switch, by enforcing silent mode - Fix an issue with the "Last [...] Backups" Retention policy being limited to 99 in the Comet Backup desktop app
- Fix an issue with adding new Protected Item retention overrides in the Comet Server web interface impacting the actual Storage Vault retention rule
- Fix an issue with "Invalid function" error messages when browsing partitions for restore after resizing a dynamic partition on an iSCSI LUN
- Fix an issue with "expected XX bytes" error messages indicating a 2048 - 4096 byte read shortfall in some Disk Image backup job situations
- Fix an issue with malformed URLs if a trailing slash was not present in the configured Comet Server URL
- Fix an issue with handling cloud storage branding restrictions inside child span storage dialogs in the Comet Backup desktop app
- Fix an issue with live connections in the Comet Server web interface when logged in as an end-user, affecting backup/restore operations
- Fix an issue with the "WebHookOptions" being "null" instead of an empty array in the
cometd.cfg
file if no webhooks have been configured yet - Fix an issue with failing to run some steps during installation and uninstallation of Comet Backup for Windows
- Fix a cosmetic issue with ARM64 devices appearing as ARM32 in the Comet Server web interface
- Fix a cosmetic issue with size mismatch error messages in the Comet Backup desktop app if the sizes are indistinguishable after rounding, by falling back to displaying the exact byte sizes