Changes compared to 19.6.8
– Feature: Support using PKCS12 (*.pfx / *.p12) certificate files when configuring HTTPS in Comet Server
– Enhancement: Update the Request Storage Vault APIs to include the created Storage Vault ID in response
– Enhancement: Prevent use of port 80 with HTTPS, port 443 with HTTP in the Setup Wizard in both the Comet Server Service Manager app and in the Comet Server web interface
– Fix an issue with slow performance of incremental backup jobs of the drive root if VSS is enabled
– Fix an issue with not showing the Server Self-Backup page in the Setup Wizard in the Comet Server web interface if the Constellation Role was disabled
– Fix an issue with measuring remaining free space in Local Path directories in Comet Server, affecting the choice of where to store Spanned data
– Fix an issue with “split” error messages in the Comet Server web interface
– Fix an issue with the Vault Analysis dialog crashing in the Comet Server web interface
– Fix an issue with not cleaning up old Abandoned jobs exceed the configured age limit, if they were created prior to Comet 19.6.x
– Fix an issue with automatic logins to Comet Server
– Fix an issue with not properly excluding dropbox cache placeholder files on Windows
– Fix a cosmetic issue with missing text in the View dropdown on the Vault Analysis dialog in the Comet Server web interface
– Fix a cosmetic issue with not finding a job report for email report preview in the Comet Server web interface if the only matching report took place in the past
– Fix a cosmetic issue with unnecessary security prompts for login attempts to the Comet Server that were initiated from the Comet Server itself
– Fix a cosmetic issue with missing translations on the multi-user add dialog
– Fix a cosmetic issue with timezone display for Server Self-Backup schedules in the Comet Server web interface
– Relax warnings from the automatic retention system to provide more smooth transition in the 19.8.0 series; will be reinstated for 19.9.x Voyager
Changes compared to 19.5.4
– Feature: Self-Backup for Comet Server configuration and user databases
– Feature: Support “login as user” advanced action when viewing a user’s detail page as an administrator from the Comet Server web interface
– Feature: Support bulk adding multiple user accounts from CSV in the Comet Server web interface
– Feature: Support requesting new direct-to-cloud credentials for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
– Feature: Support direct hotlinks to client software downloads
– Feature: Support Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage as a Constellation target, to clean up directly requested credentials
– Feature: Support searching for jobs based on report line count, report byte size
– Feature: Support cancelling backup jobs from the Comet Server web interface when logged in as an end-user
– Feature: Support using PKCS12 (*.pfx / *.p12) certificate files when configuring HTTPS in Comet Server
– Feature: Updated Russian translation
– Feature: Option to choose whether to overwrite files when restoring
– Feature: Option to specify SSL intermediate certificate file, instead of having to manually create a combined file
– Feature: Option to perform a download-only restore, without saving restored files, for test purposes
– Feature: Option to restore to Program Input
– Feature: Option to restore multiple files as a streaming tar file
– Feature: Allow uploading SSL certificate files in the Setup Wizard in the Comet Server web interface
– Feature: Display available network interfaces as dropdown in the Setup Wizard in the Comet Server web interface
– Feature: Mark stopped backup jobs as new “Running (revived)” status when receiving new progress information for a stopped job
– Enhancement: Run regular analysis passes, zero-cleanup retention passes even if retention policy is “Keep Forever”, after a few weeks
– Enhancement: Improve performance for incremental backup jobs
– Enhancement: Improve performance of loading some files on Spanned storage
– Enhancement: Improve performance of finding parent snapshot for deduplication at the start of a backup job
– Enhancement: Improve performance of preparing to save files on Local Path storage in Comet Backup
– Enhancement: Improve performance of backing up uncompressible filetypes
– Enhancement: Optimize Comet Server on Windows performance for Windows Defender
– Enhancement: Storage Role replication now deletes unknown remote in-bucket content during full sync phase (mode change from ‘Partial’ to ‘Complete’)
– Enhancement: Prompt for Account Name and Email Address (optional) when creating new users in the Comet Server web interface
– Enhancement: Automatically use custom hardware/software VSS providers
– Enhancement: Add extra warnings to the Setup Wizard if you use an invalid value for the “Default server login URL” field
– Enhancement: Add a message to the job log if a Storage Vault operation takes too long to finalize
– Enhancement: Load Storage Vault’s current retention into the dialog when changing a Protected Item’s retention policy away from the default
– Enhancement: Reduce overhead of authenticating requests to Comet Server Storage Role buckets
– Enhancement: Allow searching backup jobs by job end time in the Comet Server web interface
– Enhancement: Use branded filename in “Copy to curl/wget” downloads from the Comet Server web interface
– Enhancement: Allow extra decimal place when configuring a limited upload speed on a backup schedule
– Enhancement: Update the Request Storage Vault APIs to include the created Storage Vault ID in response
– Enhancement: Prevent use of port 80 with HTTPS, port 443 with HTTP in the Setup Wizard in both the Comet Server Service Manager app and in the Comet Server web interface
– Enhancement: Cosmetic redesign the Live Connected Device Actions dialog in the Comet Server web interface
– Enhancement: Cosmetic group “Prevent creating new Protected Item” policy option settings in the Comet Server web interface
– Enhancement: Cosmetic distinguish between “Policy default” and “System default” when viewing user’s email settings in the Comet Server web interface
– Enhancement: Set job end time when marking a job as Abandoned status
– Enhancement: Support connecting to a localhost SQL Server instance using an invalid or self-signed SSL certificate
– Enhancement: Support Accept-Language HTTP header for Comet Server API response messages
– Enhancement: Support “TB” as a drop-down option for the “All Protected Items” quota on the User detail page in the Comet Server web interface
– Non-regex exclusions are now case-insensitive on Windows