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· One min read

Changes compared to 24.9.3

Enhancements

  • Added the ability to dynamically switch between using domain and workstation details for SMB Storage Vault connections
  • Improved the email filters for "Time since job start" and "Time since job end" to allow configuration by seconds, minutes, hours and days in the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Improved the performance of connecting to a Storage Vault at the start of a backup or restore job if the Storage Vault has many other concurrent jobs running

· 2 min read

Changes compared to 24.9.2

New Features

  • Added support for assigning user policies in bulk in the Comet Server web interface
  • Added Test Connections functionality when using the "Log in to a network share" option in a Files and Folders Protected Item

Enhancements

  • Updated the user's profile page in the Comet Server web interface to use colored badges to more clearly distinguish online and offline devices
  • Extended support for resuming large network downloads from point of failure when Comet encounters a "Connection closed by foreign host" network error

· 3 min read

Changes compared to 24.9.1

New Features

  • Added support for restoring Disk Image backups as Hyper-V VHDX file format

Enhancements

  • Added progress updates when a backup performs some long running actions, such as removing unneeded data packs and removing deleted files from an Object Lock Storage Vault
  • Added a popup dialog for authentication validation failures when testing Storage Vault connections in the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Added an info icon for extra troubleshooting information when testing Storage Vault connections in the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Added a clickable cross-reference in a job log, if the job's execution was blocked by another task in the same Storage Vault
  • Added support for using the Create Recovery Media feature from Linux
  • Added Protected Item names for jobs from other devices in the activity log on the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Added a device name column to the Comet Backup desktop app activity log

· One min read

Changes compared to 24.9.1

New Features

Enhancements

  • Improved the error messages displayed when Storage Role to Direct-To-Cloud conversion fails to better explain the failure reasons

· One min read

Changes compared to 24.8.1

New Features

  • Add new "Allow read-only files to be overwritten" option to bypass read-only file permissions during restore
  • Allow setting quotas for VMware and Hyper-V guests virtual machines
  • Added support for granular restore of files from Hyper-V checkpoint .avhdx files
  • Added option to copy and paste Comet Server admin interface settings between servers

Enhancements

  • Improved Microsoft 365 incremental backups of Calendars, Contacts, and Messages to be more efficient and faster

· One min read

Changes compared to 24.8.0

Enhancements

  • Updated translations for German, Danish, Hebrew, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (EU), Russian, and Thai

· 5 min read

Tethys is the latest entry in our quarterly rollup series. It branches off from our main rolling Voyager development into a fixed target for our partners to qualify and build upon.

Tethys is a moon of Saturn and is named after the Titan from Greek mythology. The best photos and scientific data about Tethys come from the 2015 visit by the Cassini spacecraft, named after Giovanni Cassini who discovered Tethys in the 1680s. Tethys was thought to be the closest moon to Saturn for 100 years, until Mimas and Enceladus were discovered in the 1780s, pushing Tethys out to third place. Tethys' orbit is still close enough to Saturn that it passes right through Saturn's magnetosphere. On Earth this would make for a dazzling aurora, but Saturn's auroras are only visible in UV light.

Tethys is a lot smaller than our own moon, at only 1% of the mass, and it seems to be almost entirely made of water ice. The nearby moon Enceladus has geysers that spray ice out into space, and this tends to create a thin ring around Saturn of ice particles. Tethys orbits right through this area and is sandblasted by these ice particles, making Tethys extremely shiny and and reflective.

As for the software, Comet 24.8.0 Tethys brings 7 new features and 25 enhancements, including support for advanced Windows metadata; granular restore from Linux filesystems; additional retry features; the ability to bulk convert from Storage Role to direct-to-cloud storage; and much more.

· One min read

Changes compared to 24.6.8

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where extended file attributes were being saved and restored even when the "Back up extra system permissions and attributes" option was not enabled
  • Fixed an issue where restores of Files and Folders Protected Items for which an entire drive was selected would result in the root directory of the restore being a hidden directory
  • Fixed an issue causing all files to be rescanned when running a Files and Folders backup on a Windows device after upgrading from Comet 24.6.1 or older to Comet 24.6.2 or newer
  • Fixed an issue with missing JSON syntax support when using the "Edit Raw Profile" or "Edit Raw Settings" features in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Comet Server web interface to crash during a restore in the Edge web browser
  • Fixed a cosmetic issue with overflowing action buttons in some table views in the Comet Server web interface

· One min read

Changes compared to 24.6.7

Enhancements

  • Disabled selecting Hyper-V 'All VM Snapshots' mode on operating systems where it is not supported

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue preventing individual files to be selected during the granular restore process on the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Fixed a cosmetic issue with translations not applying for some detailed error messages