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· 6 min read

Enceladus 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.

Enceladus is a moon of Saturn and is named after the giant Enceladus of Greek mythology. There are a few worlds that are thought to have liquid water oceans beneath their frozen shell, but Enceladus sprays its ocean out into space where spacecraft can sample it. From these samples, scientists have determined that Enceladus has most of the chemical ingredients needed for life, and likely has hydrothermal vents releasing hot, mineral-rich water into its ocean. Enceladus is about as wide as Arizona, and it also has the most reflective surface in our solar system. Because it reflects so much sunlight, the surface temperature is extremely cold, about minus 330 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 201 degrees Celsius).

As for the software, Comet 24.5.0 Enceladus brings 6 new features and 38 enhancements, including Changed Block Tracking support for Hyper-V and adding Impossible Cloud as a Storage Template provider.

· One min read

Changes compared to 24.3.8

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with backup jobs to the il-central-1 AWS region always failing
  • Fixed an issue with the Constellation title in the Tenant dialog not showing in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue with the Comet Server web interface violating the strict CSP policy
  • Fixed an issue causing a white background to show on some loading animations when using dark mode in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue with missing branding images in Comet Backup desktop app for Linux
  • Fixed an issue with the message This Storage Vault was unlocked ... appearing incorrectly when a backup job was experiencing network issues
  • Fixed an issue causing alternate data streams on NTFS metadata files to cause errors during granular restores
  • Fixed an issue with invalid filenames when switching from a custom-branded client installer to the pre-built Comet Backup-branded installer
  • Fixed an issue with inconsistent validation between configuring custom client branding at the top-level versus for a Tenant's settings

· 2 min read

Changes compared to 24.3.7

Enhancements

  • Added configuration to the Comet Server to set the maximum number of CPU cores that are allowed to be used when generating new builds of the Comet Backup client software
  • Added a new environment variable (COMETD_TMPDIR) to allow configuration of the temp directory used by the Comet Server when running in Linux

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue which caused the SEVT_TENANT_UPDATED event to emit the tenant name instead of the tenant ID
  • Fixed an issue where the "Open Folder" button was not visible in the Comet Backup desktop app after a restore job had completed
  • Fixed an issue where the "Open Folder" button in the Comet Backup desktop app failed to open a file browser at the location of the restored files for UNC paths
  • Fixed an issue where S3 backups showed a Object Lock error about enabling Versioning on the S3 bucket instead of the real failure
  • Fixed an issue where audit logs would not be pruned if Authentication Role was set to keep logs indefinitely
  • Fixed an issue where setting "If the last job was Missed" on a schedule triggered extra backup jobs if the device's live connection dropped while the scheduled job was still running

· 2 min read

Changes compared to 24.3.6

New Features

  • Added support for selecting Windows drives by drive letter when configuring a Disk Image Protected Item

Enhancements

  • Added a label in the Comet Server web interface and the Comet Backup desktop app to distinguish if Protected Items are enforced via the policy
  • Added the ability to convert Windows System Backup Protected Items to Disk Image Protected Items via the Users tab and Bulk Actions dropdown in the Comet Server web interface
  • Improved Microsoft 365 Drive downloads by adding configurable account concurrency and adding concurrency to single file downloads

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with default Protected Items, allowing edit and delete options when the configured policy doesn't strictly enforce it
  • Fixed an issue with the Comet Backup desktop app deleting DeviceIdentificationEntropy and DeviceIdentificationHardwareIDOverride registry keys when uninstalled
  • Fixed an issue causing a deadlock when too many requests to a Storage Vault fail during decompression in a single job
  • Fixed an issue causing restores to panic when Comet fails to load a directory included in the files being restored
  • Fixed an issue with some search results not appearing when multiple partial matches exist in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue with search results not appearing for results with non-ASCII characters in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue allowing search invocation underneath an active dialog in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue causing Comet Server to segfault when starting on Linux
  • Fixed an issue causing clients running on Windows Server 2008R2 and Windows 7 to lose their live connection and become unable to be remotely upgraded after a Comet Server upgrade

· One min read

Changes compared to 24.3.5

Enhancements

  • Added the ability to configure SQL timeouts for MSSQL restores
  • Improved error message output for when a Hyper-V backup fails due to Hyper-V not being installed on the endpoint
  • Added additional threading to single file downloads from Microsoft 365, and added retry logic for when the download URL has expired. Expired URLs can cause 401 errors.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue causing a crash when data from multiple disks is selected for restore during granular restore workflows
  • Fixed an issue causing logins requiring 2FA to fail on the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue with the Comet Server web interface settings page to crash when a tenant has been deleted

· 2 min read

Changes compared to 24.3.4

Enhancements

  • Added retrying for intermittent errors that occur when restoring data to UNC paths

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed sorting of logs on the Server Logs page on the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue which caused the user detail page to fail to load for usernames with certain lengths in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue where the Comet Server web interface failed to remember column selections for usernames containing an @ symbol
  • Fixed an issue with missing hints for valid usernames in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed a cosmetic issue with missing or misplaced loading animations in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue with remote-controlled restores from the Comet Server web interface being unable to write to user home directories
  • Fixed an issue with backup job progress bars being left below 100% after the job completed
  • Fixed an issue with searching for items in Office 365 backup snapshots
  • Fixed an issue with unusable content when attempting to restore EFS-encrypted files to an archive
  • Fixed an issue with failing to restore directory timestamps
  • Fixed a cosmetic issue with EFS-encrypted files appearing as directories in the Comet Server web interface

· One min read

Changes compared to 24.2.2

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with being unable to load a user with an "@" in the username in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue with "Test Connection" on VMware Protected Items not working when logged in as a normal user

· One min read

Changes compared to 24.3.3

New Features

  • Added Impossible Cloud as a Storage Template provider
  • Added new "Latest VM State (Changed Block Tracking)" option for Hyper-V for improved backup performance

Enhancements

  • Added "days" as a unit to the Object Lock settings field when configuring a Storage Vault with Object Lock in the Comet Server web interface
  • Improved load performance of Server Logs page on the Comet Server web interface

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with being unable to load a user with an "@" in the username in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue with "Test Connection" on VMware Protected Items not working when logged in as a normal user
  • Fixed an issue with some spanned storage targets being absent from the dashboard Storage widget in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue with exposing S3-compatible hostnames during an early connection phase in the job logs

· 2 min read

Changes compared to 24.2.1

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue causing unexpected entries to appear in the snapshot browser and the subsequent restore to fail when restoring from a Hyper-V snapshot using the Comet Server web interface if a VHDX file appears at the root of the snapshot
  • Fixed an issue causing no default restore type to be selected in the restore dialog of the Comet Server web interface for Hyper-V and VMware restores
  • Fixed an issue causing "undefined" to appear in the breadcrumb in the snapshot browser when restoring from a Disk Image/Hyper-V/VMware snapshot using the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue with tenant email reporting when using the test button as a top-level admin in the Comet Server web interface. The test email is now correctly filtered to the expected tenant
  • Fixed an issue with the Protected Items table in the Users page on the Comet Server web interface where it was not possible to run a backup from any page other than the first page
  • Fixed an issue when backing up a VMware virtual disk on a vSAN datastore
  • Fixed an issue with user email reporting not being enabled by default
  • Fixed an issue with restore jobs under reporting the Downloaded size
  • Fixed an issue with the Comet Server web interface failing to display the users page
  • Fixed an issue with Comet Server stalling user profile operations if there is a high load of live connected devices