Changes compared to 24.6.1
New Features
- Added new "Back up extra system permissions and attributes" option for File and Folders Protected Items
Enhancements
- Improved the clarity of error messages when data packs are missing from a Storage Vault
- Improved the clarity of error messages when Comet Backup fails to optimize an existing snapshot during a retention pass
- Improved the performance of backup jobs that do not take a filesystem snapshot
- Improved retry behaviour for S3 API requests that fail due to "unexpected EOF" errors
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where deleted files in a versioned S3 bucket would get undeleted if errors occurred when listing files during a retention pass
- Fixed an issue where installing Comet Backup on a Synology device would cause a warning popup to appear after installation finished successfully
- Fixed an issue where some NTFS volumes could not be recognised as NTFS partitions leading to browsing failure at the time of restore
- Fixed an issue causing Comet Server to crash when a missed backup job is generated from devices with unrecognized timezones
- Fixed an issue with SMB and FTP Storage Vaults overreporting the amount of data downloaded
- Fixed an issue causing Comet Server to crash when attempting to download a DSM 6/7 client installer when Comet Server was installed using the Linux (other) installer
- Fixed an issue with not retrying some types of network error during Reindex or Deep Verify operations
- Fixed an issue with "Hash Mismatch" error messages at the end of a job log if a user profile is being modified frequently
- Fixed an issue with Disk Image backups skipping partitions instead of affected blocks when the underlying hard drive is experiencing CRC errors
- Fixed an issue causing Storage Vault size measurements to be 8x larger against Comet Server Storage Role
- Fixed a Microsoft 365 listing issue where default permissions were receiving 403s from retrieving Site information
- Fixed an issue with restoring files from non-Windows devices to Windows devices when the file name contains a backslash
- Fixed an issue with retention passes on Storage Vaults without Object Lock showing Object Lock specific errors instead of the real retention pass error
- Fixed a cosmetic issue with "failed to list objects with prefix" error messages incorrectly being outputted when an S3-compatible Storage Vault is too busy to be used