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24.3.3 Voyager released

Changes compared to 24.3.2

New Features

  • Added new SMB Storage Vault type

Enhancements

  • Refreshed the UI for the Protected Item wizard in the Comet Backup desktop app
  • “After” tasks will now run even for jobs which have been cancelled
  • Changed “Job History” on the Comet Server web interface to “Job Logs”
  • Added an option to the IAM-Compatible Storage Template to choose between creating buckets or subfolders
  • Added an option to the IAM-Compatible Storage Template to support Object Lock
  • Added an option to the IAM-Compatible Storage Template to support creating buckets in non-default S3 regions

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue causing File and Folder restores to sometimes hang when cancelled
  • Fixed an issue with Comet reporting the incorrect uploaded total in the backup job report if uploading to an S3 Storage Vault with Object Lock enabled
  • Fixed an issue with missing Comet Storage options in the Constellation dialog in the Comet Server settings page
  • Fixed an issue with “Internal Error” messages when viewing the Constellation Bucket Users report page early after Comet Server starts up
  • Fixed an issue with the Recent Activity page if a job started at precisely midnight
  • Fixed an issue with Comet Server stalling user profile operations if there is a high load of live connected devices

About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Comet
We are a team of dedicated professionals committed to developing reliable and secure backup solutions for MSP’s, Businesses and IT professionals. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, we understand the importance of having a reliable backup solution in place to protect your valuable data. That’s why we’ve developed a comprehensive suite of backup solutions that are easy to use, scalable and highly secure.

World Backup Day for MSPs & IT Providers

World Backup Day serves as a timely reminder to review your backup strategies and to educate your end users and partners on the importance of data backup. 

While World Backup Day is observed annually on March 31st, MSPs and IT providers play a critical role in protecting businesses and organisations every day of the year.

History of World Backup Day

World Backup Day was created in 2011 and started with a post on Reddit where a user wrote about losing their hard drive and wished someone had reminded them about how important it is to backup data. World Backup Day highlights the importance of securing and protecting data.

Why is data backup important?

In today’s digital age, data backup and data protection is critical for businesses and organisation to help protect against:

  • Ransomware
  • Cybersecurity attacks
  • Human error
  • Data loss
  • Hardware malfunction
  • Power failure
  • Natural disasters

Having a robust backup solution and solid restore process will help safeguard against these threats and help minimize downtime for your end users and clients.

Reminders for World Backup Day

Here are some top tips:

  • Review your backup strategy and solutions for different data types, backup types, storage solutions and destinations
  • Regularly test your backup and restore processes
  • Check backup schedules to confirm they are running as intended
  • Automate and streamline processes to save time such as email reports and job log alerts
  • Make sure your servers and databases are backed up, not just your endpoints

Comet Backup for MSPs, IT Providers & Businesses

A secure and reliable backup platform is essential to MSPs & IT Providers’ backup and disaster recovery (BDR) strategy to maintain business continuity in the event of a security incident.

Here are some of the core features & benefits of Comet Backup:

  • Easy to use: Comet Backup has an intuitive, easy-to-use web console where you can remotely manage and protect devices. Comet is fast and easy to set up – start running backups and restores in less than 15 minutes.
  • Flexible: Choose Comet Storage powered by Wasabi for an all-in-one storage solution, or utilize your own storage, whether that’s an on-prem solution or a S3 compatible storage provider (including AWS, Backblaze, Wasabi, Azure, and more). You’re in control of where your data sits.
  • Fast, efficient chunking technology: Advanced backup algorithm packages data into small blocks for faster uploads and downloads, saving valuable time.
  • Reliable, Safe & Secure: Data is encrypted during backup, transit, and rest. Comet is also HIPPA and GDPR compliant.
  • Client-side deduplication: Reduces redundant data, ensuring more efficient storage usage and therefore cost savings.
  • Incremental forever without full re-uploads: After the initial backup, only changes are uploaded, conserving bandwidth, and accelerating the backup process.
  • Compression and encryption: Client data is compact for storage efficiency and secured against breaches, ensuring peace of mind.

Protect your data this World Backup Day

World Backup Day is a great time to educate and remind your end users and partners of the importance of data backup. Your goal as IT Providers and MSPs is to provide the best support and solutions to give your partners peace of mind and confidence that their businesses’ data is safe and protected.

Test drive Comet Backup with a 30-day FREE trial, or book a discovery call with our team to learn more about how Comet can help your business.

About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Comet
We are a team of dedicated professionals committed to developing reliable and secure backup solutions for MSP’s, Businesses and IT professionals. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, we understand the importance of having a reliable backup solution in place to protect your valuable data. That’s why we’ve developed a comprehensive suite of backup solutions that are easy to use, scalable and highly secure.

24.3.2 Voyager released

Changes compared to 24.3.1

New Features

  • Added a new permission for enabling/disabling the ability for an admin account to delete a Storage Vault

Enhancements

  • Added “Account Name” as an additional data column to the Devices page in the Comet Server web interface
  • Improved the performance of browsing files and folders for granular restores
  • Reduced the amount of data downloaded while browsing files and folders for granular restores
  • Improved the performance of simulated granular restores
  • Implemented restoration of metadata for files and folders restored during granular restore
  • Improved the performance of granular restores when restoring directories containing few files
  • Improved error handling when a file or folder fails to restore correctly in granular restores

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that allowed new Storage Vaults to be added using the Comet Server API even if adding a Storage Vault is restricted for a tenant admin
  • Fixed an issue where restoring symlinks to a SquashFS archive caused the archive to be invalid
  • Fixed an issue where granular restores to SquashFS archives that include files from multiple partitions or disks do not restore all files
  • Fixed an issue where selecting a directory containing a virtual disk for granular restore would restore some of the VMDK files as well as the disk contents
  • Fixed an issue preventing granular restores from restoring files and folders from inside and outside a virtual disk in the same restore job
  • Fixed an issue causing granular restores to archive formats to create symlinks on disk instead of inside the archive
  • Fixed an issue causing the “Overwrite if existing file is newer” option to be ignored by granular restores
  • Fixed an issue with reduced performance when running Comet Backup for Linux on ARMv7 CPUs

About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Comet
We are a team of dedicated professionals committed to developing reliable and secure backup solutions for MSP’s, Businesses and IT professionals. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, we understand the importance of having a reliable backup solution in place to protect your valuable data. That’s why we’ve developed a comprehensive suite of backup solutions that are easy to use, scalable and highly secure.

24.3.1 Voyager released

Changes compared to 24.3.0

New Features

  • Added a new restore option to only overwrite existing files if there is a difference in file content already written to the restore location

Enhancements

  • Backup job logs now appear in the Console app on macOS
  • Installing the Comet Client on Linux devices no longer echoes password characters to the terminal
  • Improved the performance of the Comet Server when a large number of devices resume their live connection

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with macOS installs where the Comet version was not being reported
  • 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 where backup jobs could complete successfully when a previous retention pass failed. Backup jobs are now blocked until retention pass errors are resolved
  • 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 causing errors when attempting to begin an OpenID Connect authentication process to fail to display in the browser and cURL
  • 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 applying language selections in the Comet Server web interface

About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Comet
We are a team of dedicated professionals committed to developing reliable and secure backup solutions for MSP’s, Businesses and IT professionals. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, we understand the importance of having a reliable backup solution in place to protect your valuable data. That’s why we’ve developed a comprehensive suite of backup solutions that are easy to use, scalable and highly secure.

24.2.1 Mimas released

Changes compared to 24.2.0

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with the Comet Server web interface failing to display the users page
  • Fixed an issue applying language selections in the Comet Server web interface

About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Comet
We are a team of dedicated professionals committed to developing reliable and secure backup solutions for MSP’s, Businesses and IT professionals. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, we understand the importance of having a reliable backup solution in place to protect your valuable data. That’s why we’ve developed a comprehensive suite of backup solutions that are easy to use, scalable and highly secure.

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