The hardworking holiday elves on Team Cove have been busy, and are proud to announce Cove Data Protection version 23.12, with a wealth of year-end goodness. This month’s new features and capabilities will be released in phases, as noted in each section. The web-based management dashboard and the local Backup Manager agent have both received some major refreshes, including additional new OS support.

Management console updates:
Cove is now available as a Progressive Web Application when using the Chrome browser on either MacOS or Windows devices. This provides an experience more like a mobile app, and makes sign-in to Cove faster and more convenient, allowing you to keep the Cove icon in your tray.

In addition, on Dec. 20, Cove users will be able to export data from the User Actions Log in CSV or XLCX formats.

Backup Manager:
A newly updated version of the local Backup Manager agent is available for download now from the download link in the product dashboard, or from this site. A global auto-update is planned for early in 2024.

This version brings improvements and bug fixes to Local SpeedVault synchronization issues, as well as performance improvements when working with the VMware data source. Specifically:

• 5X faster backup tree expansion in the UI
• The ability to add tagged VM snapshots
• Other fixes and improvements

This refresh also adds:

• Mac OS:
  • MacOS Sonoma support
  • For greater security, this version prevents the application of locally unsupported data sources from a profile
• Linux OS:
  • Support of MySQL up to version 8.0.34
  • Improved ability to install the Backup client via proxy

Continuity:
Several updates and enhancements will be deployed the week of Dec. 11, including:

• UX Enhancements:
  • Extended the number of columns in the “One-time restore” and “Standby Image” dashboards
• Standby Image reliability improvements:
  • Fixed an issue causing the error: “WMI job failed: ‘StandbyImage_***’ failed to start. Not enough memory in the system.”
  • Resolved a problem where BackupFP did not terminate properly in cases of abort or shutdown during boot check.
  • Fixed an error: “Failed to extend volume. The drive cannot find the sector requested” when VM has checkpoints.
  • Addressed an error: “An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format” while restoring an encrypted folder.
  • Resolved the error: “Failed to initialize virtual disk: Number of physical disks on the restored machine doesn’t match the source.”
  • Fixed the error: “Unable to initialize GPT partition table on disk 0: disk is too small.”
  • Resolved the error: “Failed to initialize virtual disk file: Unable to modify existing virtual machine parameters.”
  • Addressed an issue where VMs failed to start with the error: “The processor topology for the virtual machine not supported by this host.”
  • Fixed the error: “Access denied” when restoring old backups.
  • Resolved the error: “Incorrect function” when a folder changed to a file.
  • Fixed the error: “Unable to write link content: #PATH#: The data present in the reparse point buffer is invalid.”
  • Addressed the “Cannot take checkpoint” error.
  • Added support for the restore of shrunk Hyper-V disks with checkpoints.
  • Resolved the “Not enough space” error when restoring sparse files.
  • Fixed the “File already exists” error during the restoration of short names.
  • Addressed the error: “Failed to map virtual path” when the number of physical disks is over 15.
  • Fixed the error: “Invalid partition table” if the logical sector size is incorrect.
  • Resolved the error: “Failed to map virtual path” when the drive letter is assigned by diskpart.
  • Fixed the “Access denied” error during WindowsApps restore.
  • Improved the restore functionality of encrypted Files and Folders.
• Recovery Testing reliability improvements:
  • Resolved an issue causing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) with the error: “inaccessible boot device” during recovery testing.
  • Fixed recovery testing completion errors at C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Intel.
  • Enhanced recovery testing boot detection related to VdrService.
  • Addressed the recovery testing completion error: “Operation was aborted: Node processing aborted.”
  • Resolved the error during recovery testing: “Failed to get image: return code is : 32775; image data is null.”

See you next year!