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Channel Program’s 2023 Holidaze is Here

Holidaze – 10 Days of Giveaways and Prizes

Join us in celebrating the holiday season! We’ve partnered with Channel Program as one of the sponsors for their Holidaze giveaway event. 

For 10 business days, from Dec 4th – Dec 15th 2023, you can win prizes like gift cards, travel vouchers, tech gadgets, and more!

Channel Program will draw 2 prizes each day, with 3 grand prizes announced on the final day, December 15th, to help you kick off this holiday season.

Comet is giving away a PlayStation 5 to one lucky winner as one of the Grand Prizes.

Register today to enter the daily prize drawings starting on December 4th!

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.

23.12.0 ‘Voyager’ released

Changes compared to 23.11.1

New Features

  • Added a new Java SDK which allows customers to access the Comet Server API via JDK version 11+

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.

23.9.11 ‘Voyager’ released

New Features

  • Support new “Latest VM State (Changed Block Tracking)” option for Hyper-V for improved backup performance.
  • Added support for VMware ESXi hosts running on a free license. Comet now supports both the free and paid versions of VMware for backups and restores.
  • Added the ability to enforce policies created by a top-level administrator onto tenant administrators and tenant users. This allows top-level administrator to enforce settings and preferences across an entire Comet Server.

Enhancements

  • Improved the admin accounts dialogue to have a separate Policies tab in the Comet Server web interface.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with the Comet Backup desktop app not refreshing the Job History when a new backup job is started.
  • Fixed an issue with hourly scheduler where it failed to adjust correctly to the USA Daylight Savings Time (DST)
  • Fixed an issue with the Comet Backup desktop app jumping to a different Protected Item view when there is a Protected Item being edited. This usually occurred when a scheduled backup was run.
  • Fixed an issue where VMware snapshots created in CBT mode had incomplete chunks.
  • Fixed an issue with the My Devices chart on the Comet Server web interface failing to render.

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.

23.11.1 Saturn released

Changes compared to 23.11.0

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with email settings for Comet Hosted.

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.

23.11.0 ‘Saturn’ released

Saturn 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.

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and is the second-largest planet in our solar system, after Jupiter. It is large enough that it can fit more than 760 Earths inside it.

Despite its enormous size, Saturn has a relatively fast rotation. A day on Saturn lasts only about 10.7 hours. This rapid rotation causes the planet to flatten slightly at the poles and bulge at the equator.

Saturn has been known since ancient times, and its rings were first observed by Galileo Galilei in 1610. The true nature of the rings was identified by Christiaan Huygens in 1655.

As for the software, Comet 23.11.0 Saturn brings 8 new features and 23 enhancements, including our new VMware Protected Item type.

As always for a new quarterly release, there are two changelogs for 23.11.0 Saturn depending on whether you are coming from the previous quarterly release or the previous Voyager release:

Changes compared to 23.8.3

New Features

  • Added new VMware Protected Item type. Comet supports both the free and paid versions of VMware ESXi for backups and restores
  • Added a lobby option to the Comet Backup desktop app installers, allowing for silent installation with fully-remote device authentication via the Devices page in the Comet Server web interface
  • Updated the name of the Connected Devices page to Devices in the Comet Server web interface and redesigned the page to show all devices
  • Added bulk actions to the Devices page in the Comet Server web interface
  • Added support for restoring Disk image backups as VMware-compatible virtual disks
  • Added new “Comet Storage” and “Comet Storage (Object Lock)” storage destinations, allowing users to select Comet’s new bundled Wasabi storage option for Storage Vaults (including Storage Templates)
  • Added the ability to enforce policies created by a top-level administrator onto tenant administrators and tenant users. This allows top-level administrators to enforce settings and preferences across an entire Comet Server

Enhancements

  • Protected Item types that are not compatible with the device operating system will now be greyed out and disabled in the Comet Server web interface
  • Added the ability to mark jobs that are stuck in the running state as abandoned if they are unable to be cancelled in the Comet Server web interface
  • Changed clients on Linux platforms to log to stdin/stderr for background services
  • Improved the performance of restoring data from backups which contain large amounts of blank data, such as Disk Images
  • Improved Comet Server behavior when it fails to start due to license issues. It now starts successfully with limited functionality and displays an error message indicating how to identify the issue
  • Added logging of the reason the job started at the beginning of backup job logs
  • Added option to aggregate usage by Account Name for Gradient PSA integration
  • Added automatic cancellation of running jobs using a Storage Vault when that Storage Vault is deleted
  • Improved the appearance of the “About” window in the Comet Server Service Manager
  • Reduced memory usage when loading large index files from Comet Server Storage Role-type Storage Vaults
  • Renamed “Restore files and folders” to “Granular restore” when restoring files and folders from a Disk Image or Hyper-V backup
  • Added a new template for Amazon S3 and Wasabi Storage Templates to make it easier to set Object Lock on a template.
  • Added ability to configure server audit file logging from the Comet Server web interface
  • Significantly improved the speed of granular restores from Disk Image backups
  • Improved the performance of restoring files and/or folders from Disk Image backups
  • Significantly improved performance when restoring directories containing only a few files from a File and Folder Protected Item
  • Updated the Activity browser filter names in the Comet Backup desktop app to better clarify their functionality
  • Slightly changed the appearance of the Comet Backup desktop app About dialog
  • Improve security posture of the Comet Server web interface by adding additional XSS protections
  • Updated the preconfigured exclusion list for File and Folder Protected Items on the Comet Server web interface with valid exclusions
  • Lowered memory usage when uploading to S3-backed Storage Vaults in some use cases
  • Removed the device dropdown in the Comet Server web interface when adding a Protected Item when there’s only one device
  • Improved the admin accounts dialogue to have a separate Policies tab in the Comet Server web interface

Changes compared to 23.9.11

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with the Comet Server web interface showing an internal error popup when the server is first started
  • Fixed an issue with the Comet Server web interface throwing an error before valid VMware credentials have been added

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.

23.9.10 ‘Voyager’ released

Enhancements

  • Significantly improved performance when restoring directories containing only a few files from a File and Folder Protected Item
  • Lowered memory usage when uploading to S3-backed Storage Vaults in some use cases
  • Removed the device dropdown in web UI when adding a protected item when there’s only one device

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with compatibility with Cloudflare R2 S3-compatible storage service
  • Fixed an issue with granular restore of symlinks when Comet Backup is running on a non-Windows OS
  • Fixed an issue with granular restore of NTFS partitions on MBR with an invalid partition type flag
  • Fixed an issue with inconsistent behaviour of granular restore from Disk Image backups where the partition table was not included
  • Fixed an issue with granular restore of disk images if the image is contained within a directory with certain names
  • Fixed an issue with granular restore when selecting files from a Disk Image partition extent following a deselected extent
  • Fixed an issue with missing non-disk-image files when browsing parent directories in granular restore mode
  • Fixed an issue with missing partition names for display in granular restore mode
  • Fixed a cosmetic issue with the dropdown mode selector for Hyper-V Protected Items
  • Fixed an issue causing excessive memory usage when compressing large index files during a retention pass
  • Fixed a cosmetic issue with the Disk Image restore dialog in the Comet Server web interface and the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Fixed a cosmetic issue with the Object Lock configuration 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.

23.9.9 ‘Voyager’ released

Enhancements

  • Updated the preconfigured exclusion list for File and Folder Protected Items on the Comet Server web interface with valid exclusions

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with ‘not found in index’ error messages when restoring from some recent backup job snapshots that were created simultaneously with a retention pass
  • Fixed an issue with default Protected Items displaying “Not yet run” in the Comet Backup desktop app despite having run
  • Fixed an issue where default Protected Items with the option “Update existing devices” enabled could have their configuration menu opened through the user’s Protected Items table in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue where default Protected Items with the option “Update existing devices” enabled still displayed the “Configure” button in the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Removed the AWS and Wasabi Object Lock dropdown options in the replication dialog on the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed an issue with browsing and restoring files from a Disk Image backup where the original partition data was not part of the backup job
  • Fixed an issue with browsing files from disk partitions created by non-Windows systems

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.

23.8.2 ‘Adrastea’ released

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with the Comet Server stats endpoint returning Internal Error in some specific scenarios.
  • Fixed an issue with the Comet Server stats processing returning incorrect stats for previous days
  • Fixed an issue with browsing and restoring one or more files from Hyper-V backup
  • Fixed an issue with CVE-2023-44487 HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack
  • Fixed an issue with Files and Folders Protected Items being configurable through the Comet Server web interface while restricted by policy
  • Fixed a cosmetic issue with pixelated text in the Comet Backup desktop app on multi-screen setups
  • Fixed a cosmetic issue with the ‘Configure’ text being in the wrong location in the Comet Backup desktop app
  • Fixed an issue with Storage Vault configuration if the Object Lock duration was set to zero days
  • Fixed an issue with Virtual Storage Vault policy options being available incorrectly when configuring a schedule for a Protected Item
  • Fixed an issue with the list of allowed Storage Vault types not being immediately visible when editing admin permissions in the Comet Server web interface for an admin user with the “Restrict available Storage Vault types” setting enabled
  • Fixed an issue with a non-existent empty Protected Item being shown in the Comet Backup desktop app after restoring a snapshot from other device
  • Fixed an issue with the Restore dialog in the Comet Backup desktop app showing snapshots from another devices as if they were from the current device
  • Fixed an issue with the Policy Protected Items getting multiple unknown entries when the dialog for the OS picker is cancelled.
  • Fixed an issue where Microsoft 365 email backups would error instead of warn for server-side retrieval failures
  • Fixed an issue with the desktop application not launching after installation when “Launch Comet Backup” is checked on Windows Server
  • Fixed an issue with handling unexpected files inside an S3-compatible storage location

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.

23.9.8 ‘Voyager’ released

Enhancements

  • Improve security posture of the Comet Server web interface by adding additional XSS protections

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with CVE-2023-44487 HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack
  • Fixed an issue with MySQL streaming restore raising packet size errors when restoring large blobs
  • Fixed an issue that prevented using Spanned storage for Storage Role in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed a cosmetic issue with spacing around the warning message when viewing stale vault analysis information 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.

23.9.8 ‘Voyager’ released

Changes compared to 23.9.7 

Enhancements

  • Improve security posture of the Comet Server web interface by adding additional XSS protections

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with CVE-2023-44487 HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack
  • Fixed an issue with MySQL streaming restore raising packet size errors when restoring large blobs
  • Fixed an issue that prevented using Spanned storage for Storage Role in the Comet Server web interface
  • Fixed a cosmetic issue with spacing around the warning message when viewing stale vault analysis information 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.