Backup & Restore

VM Image Granular File Restore Performance

• Performance has been improved when restoring individual files or folders, this should be at least 20% faster depending upon how many files have been selected for restore. The process has been optimised and can be tuned with a new parameter; this is explained in the Service Node guide. The legacy tool HT.EXE now also supports VM Images.

Optimized Image Backups

• Previously if a volume had been extended several times backup failures could occur. This issue has now been addressed so that optimized backups work regardless of how many times a volume has been extended. Also note: a Hotfix was made available post release to further improve this, so if you’re interested in this feature then please contact support for the additional fix.

FileStore™ Reliability & Optimisation

Free Space Monitor

• Two improvements have been made after feedback from the field; the policy scan can now use X number of days as well as a specific date range to limit the scope. This adds greater flexibility when configuring the archive policy in very large environments that use free space monitor polices.

Admin Console

With each release we continue to add more functionality to the web UI which means the administrator experience improves and there’s fewer reasons to rely on the older Management Console tools for day to day management tasks. With SP1 we’ve made the following improvements:

Schedule Manager

• This adds another key management facility so that administrators can now access a new Schedule Manager sidebar to review and manage schedule settings
  • Calendar View
  • Copy / Delete
  • Import/Export
  • Modify (comment, counters, excluded dates)
  • Rename Schedule.

Control Node (CN) Web Performance

• Larger sites had reported performance issues with the CN Web service, improvements have been made to optimize this service.

FileStore™ & Restore Utilities

• Miscellaneous improvements and fixes to enhance the user experience , review the release notes for more information.

Supportability

CNCLi

• New commands are now available to rename credentials, schedule & objects  (these are to support admin console functionality). However, the new rename object command also renames fields whose names depend on the object name such as the journal and log file names and the saveset path names.

Log Save Format

• When using the management console tools (CN Object or Queue Manager) the last used log save format is remembered so future saves will default to whatever format was last used.

Notable Documentation Updates

• MT Guide updates to show PowerMax support
• Sophos Stub exclude information updated for Intercept X & Core Agent.

Multi-stream SQL Performance

RAPid 25A introduces high-speed SQL backup and restore using Microsoft’s Virtual Device Interface (VDI), scaling up to 32 parallel streams. Customers can expect performance gains of 30-50GB per minute (infrastructure dependent), enabling much quicker backups of multi-terabyte databases – well within backup windows. In parallel, the same applies to system restores, offering faster recovery of your critical data.

FileStore™ Performance

Our latest FileStore™ archiving enhancements include a more resilient Free Space Monitor (FSM) connection and improved control over archiving scans to target a specific date range. This helps customers maximize/optimize the amount of data they can archive. And this performance is further boosted when using NDR with JBOD storage.

Admin Console

RAPid 25A takes another step toward centralized management with the full integration of Alert Manager into the web-based Admin Console. Now you can monitor and manage alerts – alongside objects, jobs, and queues – all in one streamlined interface.

Security & Dependencies

Finally, as we continuously update RAPid to address software dependencies and known vulnerabilities, we strongly recommend upgrading to the latest version of the software to ensure you’re taking advantage of the latest features and safeguard your environment.