Changes compared to 21.8.0
New Features
- Add three new retention rules. "Last [...] backups, at most once per day", "Last [...] backups, at most once per week", "Last [...] backups, at most once per month"
- Add timezone to each device, schedules will now honour the device specific timezone instead of the User Profile timezone
- Allow specifying custom headers to be included with webhook POST requests made by Comet Server
- support restore Disk Image snapshot to physical device in the Comet Server web interface
- Support running Comet Server on Linux ARM64
- Option to hide files instead of deleting them on Backblaze B2, for extra ransomware protection
- Support running backup jobs and retention passes simultaneously
- Support certain new upcoming Wasabi cloud storage regions upon their upcoming availability date
- Add optional 'Registered' column to the Devices table on a User's profile page in the Comet Server web interface
- Support custom SSL settings for MySQL Protected Items
- You can now export a zip file with all log files from the Comet Server Web UI
- Allow previewing an Office 365 email from the Comet Server web interface, by double-clicking it in the restore dialog
- New backup-tool login subcommands to check login state and set login credentials on Linux
- Danish translation
- New API endpoints added for listing the Office 365 account resources that are available for backup
- New and improved user interface for the Office365 Protected Item
- Support the granular Office365 service backup
Enhancements
- Translations now include the retention range description text in the Comet Server web interface
- Improve performance of loading items in the Office365 child dialogs by adding local cache in the Comet Backup desktop app
- Automatically prefer to run retention passes on "high power" devices
- Add optional 'Timezone' column to the Devices table on a User's profile page in the Comet Server web interface
- Improve speed of fallback operations for Office 365 backup jobs
- Improve network transfer performance for all storage locations other than Storage Role, by reducing buffering
- Mark job as abandoned if remote device cancellation fails to find a matching process
- Improve the accuracy of Files and Directories statistic for the Office365 booster
- Improve performance of restoring multiple files within the same directory
- Display a description of a Storage Vault default Retention Policy on hover in the Protected Items settings editor in the Comet Backup desktop app and the Comet Server web interface
- Reword the B2 feature to hide files instead of deleting them for better clarity, and add in-client help text
- Rearrange the Actions menu on the User page in the Comet Server web UI to isolate destructive actions
- Improve appearance of Comet Server Service Manager on HiDPI displays
- Improve translations for German on/off text
- The Comet Server service manager always starts after installation of Comet Server
- Allow usernames shorter than six characters
- Update Thai translation
- Minor performance improvement for the "Use temporary files instead of disk" option
- Try to access Amazon S3 China regions over IPv6 if possible
- Improve performance of Reindex and Deep Verify operations
- Improve performance of Office 365 SharePoint site / OneDrive backup
- Office 365 Backup performance in full and delta backup mode has been improved
- Improve the performance of opening the "Add Protected Item" dialog
- Improve performance of searching the jobs database for a single user account
- Add more detailed message for Office365 graph API error
Changes compared to 21.9.12
Enhancements
- Add more detailed message for Office365 graph API error
Bug Fixes
- Fix an issue with the mysqldump binary not being found on some non-windows platforms
- Fix an issue with Office 365 Restore to original account in a new folder
- Fix an issue with restoring mail to an Office 365 Account when the account is in a French, German or Portugese language localization
- Fix a cosmetic issue with Office365 service icons status not falling back to its parent status in some cases in the Comet Backup desktop app