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Rapid Recovery 6.5 - Release Notes

Azure Repository

Rapid Recovery 6.5 adds support for a new repository type (Native Azure Storage) that enables direct repository connections to Microsoft Azure Blob storage.

Consider the following details when implementing this feature:

  • This feature has been released in Beta status to allow for evaluation and testing. In some circumstances, performance is not suitable for production environments.
  • This feature is intended for use as a replication target repository. Using an Azure repository for backup storage on a primary or source core is not recommended.
  • Metadata files must be stored locally.
  • Only one Azure repository is supported per Rapid Recovery Core

Complete the following steps to create an Azure Repository.

  1. Navigate to the Rapid Recovery Core Console.
  2. On the icon bar, click [More] (More), and then select Repositories.
  3. At the top of the page, under the Repositories page title, click + Create.
  4. Select Azure Repository.
  5. On the Configuration page, enter the information as described below:
    • Name - Enter the display name of the repository.

      By default, this text box consists of the word Repository and a number, which corresponds to the number of repositories for this Core. For example, if this is the first repository, the default name is Repository 1. Change the name as needed. Repository names must contain between 1 and 40 alphanumeric characters, including spaces. Do not use prohibited characters or prohibited phrases.

    • Comments - Optionally, enter a descriptive note about this repository. You can enter up to 254 characters.
  6. Click Next.
  7. On the Storage Location page, enter the following information:
    • Location - Specify the path to a storage location on Azure blob storage. Use only alphanumeric characters, hyphen, or period, with no spaces or special characters.
    • Dedupe cache location - Select Azure blobs or Local file system.
    • Index files location - Select Azure blobs or Local file system.
    • Data Storage account -Select the appropriate Azure Storage account. Refer to Cloud Accounts in the Rapid Recovery User Guide for more information.

      NOTE: If you have configured a Microsoft Azure Resource Management (for Virtual Export) account for use with VM export, that account cannot be used for the Azure repository.

    • Account name - Enter the name of your Microsoft Azure storage account. The name must match the storage account name in Azure precisely. It must contain lower case letters and numbers only, and be between 3 and 24 characters in length.
    • Access key - Enter the access key for your account. You can enter the primary or secondary key. Your access key can be found under the Settings > Access Keys section of your Azure Storage account.
    • Account type - Choose your Azure account type; for example Azure, Azure Germany, Azure China, or (US) Government.
    • Use https protocol - Select this option to use the secure https protocol instead of the standard http protocol.
  8. Click Next.
  9. On the Space Allocation page, specify the following :
    1. Azure repostory size in GB
    2. Deduplication cache size in GB
    3. When you have completed your repository configuration, click Finish.

      The Create Repository Wizard closes, and Rapid Recovery applies the settings to your Core. If Toast alerts are enabled, you see messages indicating that repository creation has started, and the repository is mounted. Alternatively, you can monitor the progress of the repository creation by viewing alerts on the Events page.

      After a brief pause, on the Repositories page, in the Repositories summary table, your new repository is listed

Enhancements

The following enhancements have been added to Rapid Recovery 6.5, or were not previously documented in earlier releases

  • Multiple platform and application support updates:
    • Support for SharePoint 2019
    • Support for Ubuntu 19.10
    • Support for Ubuntu 20.04
    • Support for RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux 8
  • Improved performance of SQLmetadata checks
  • Added the ability to configure deletion of recovery points on a per volume basis
  • Added the ability to enable/disable SQL Metadata Checking for protected machines via the UI

Resolved issues

This topic contains the issues resolved in this release:

The following is a list of issues addressed in this release.

Table 1: Issues resolved in this release

Issue ID Resolved Issue Description
110503 Live restore should be occurring simultaneously for all volumes and can access the files during the restore
110450 Incremental ESXi export fails with * An unexpected error occurred: An argument was unexpectedly null in code located in or called by 'EsxServer.SetCachedValue'
110365 Restore of linked Agent failed with error: The volume restore failed because it is in use
110332 Azure Cloud account (for export) Secret Key is written in plain text in Core registry
110325 Specific Windows Server 2019 BIOS (ESXi 6.5 version) is not booting after BMR
110147 PowerShell scripts failing with a dependency error
110102 Inbox folder is empty after opening an Exchange 2019 CU4 database
110090 Archive to Amazon S3 (Wasabi endpoint) job fails with "The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error." if chain contains volume image with size 0 MB
110076 VMs goes offline after changing HyperV cluster credentials
110073 Archiving to Amazon Government Cloud with Glacier option fails "The specified bucket is not valid" and "400 Bad Request"
110070 Export fails with "Replay.Common.Contracts.Win32Api.Win32ApiFailedException: Failed to open 'C:\Mount...\FatVolumeMetadata.xml' for writing - The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable"
110020 Incorrect description of transfer queue option "Maximum concurrent transfers from a single Hyper-V host" for cluster agentless protection
109999 Installer crashes while upgrading Rapid Recovery to version 6.4 on a SQL Server with Analysis Services Configuration in Tabular Mode
109967 Linux agent's service crash on the passive node of oracle cluster with shared device
109951 Core do not parsed Linux volumes with specific ID (more then 255)
109902 Rapid Recovery Linux driver attached to new block device without protection by Core
109862 There is no ability to protect Cluster using account/credentials saved in Credentials Vault
109842 Oracle metadata cannot be collected if the Oracle database has specific configuration and customized db registry key name
109835 Archive to Amazon S3 (Wasabi endpoint) job fails with "The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error."
109790 Agentless VM is in trial after re-protect with NPH front-end capacity license with large enough license pool applied
109770 Archive to Google job fails after 7 days
109740 Oracle metadata will not be obtained if the Oracle DB listener has non-default (customized) name
109691 Device does not detach or attach from the Rapid Recovery driver without refreshing metadata
109615 Transfer fails with "Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length" error for specific ESXI agentless VM
109600 Transfer fails due to exception ' '.vmx' download failed with status 'NotFound' ' for ESXI if datacenter located in folder
109188 24 hour interval not able to be saved correctly in Transfer Schedule Templates and leads to inoperative transfers
108299 Replicated data is calculated as Protected data with NPH capacity license applied on target Core
104393 Agentless backup fails with "Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed" error when the shadow copy has specific path (\\?\Volume{fb3687e7-57b5-11e7-80c4-f48e38cee0fd}\diskc.vhdx)
102756 Deploy to Azure fail if specify cloud service name in FQDN format

Known issues

This topic contains known issues in the following categories:

 

Table 2: Core and Windows known issues

Issue ID Known Issue Description Workaround Functional Area
27309
93141		 ESXi virtual export with automatic disk mapping using default configuration for the VM configuration location fails with unclear error. The Failure Reason is "Task 'ReconfigVM_Task' failed: Invalid configuration for device '0'." Reduce the number of concurrent exports. Virtual exports, ESXi
110523 Exchange log truncation not working for ESXi agentless VMs if one database is dismounted Mount all of the databases on the Exchange Server side. Agentless protection, Exchange
110479 Newly created virtual machines don't automatically show up in the Core GUI Virtual Machines list of ESXi host. Restart Core services to update Virtual Machines list.  

110473

Exchange log truncation not working for HyperV agentless VMs

Available workarounds are:

  • Perform a manual log truncation
  • Install the Windows agent on the VM
  • Use a post backup script to call Exchange
Agentless protection, Exchange
109236 Transfer job for VM with SharedVHDX on SOFS appears to fail with errors "Session with the id has not been found: fileTransmitSessionId" and "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: " but recovery points actually are created.    

108972

Trying to perform an "Open Exchange Database" job from a recovery point fails with error "Multiple concurrent writable mounts of a single volume are not supported."

Use the Local Mount Utility, or manually mount the recovery point and open the database.

  
108764 When performing a virtual export or a virtual standby and you choose 'Specific' network adapters, the virtual standby is created with an additional e1000 NIC on top of the one you specified No workaround at this time. Virtual export
109828 When Core services are restarted, a "Virtual environment component 'Hypervisor Storage' changed status to 'Warning" alert is displayed. No workaround at this time.  
109682 When attempting to archive to an existing Azure Government cloud account, error 'Initialization of new instance of type...' appears and archive is unsuccessful. No workaround at this time. Archive, cloud, Azure Government
109575 On a specific environment, Core Console UI does not load, with the error "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." No workaround at this time. Core Console UI
107978 When deploying the Rapid Recovery Agent from the Core server, the Microsoft Store Install Service disappears from the list of services visible on the protected machine. No workaround at this time. Agent installation
107947 On a specific environment, virtual export fails to start, with error: 'Cannot connect to a remote machine '{0}' ' sometimes on unstable environment. Contact Quest Support for a patch to resolve this issue. Virtual export
107855 On a specific Dell PowerEdge Windows server environment, protected machine hangs briefly (up to 1 minute) every hour when the Rapid Recovery Agent service starts, seemingly due to a 20-30 BCD query. Perform BCD queries one at a time, sequentially, to avoid this issue. For diagnostic steps, see Quest Knowledge Base article 259558. Agent hang
107784 When protecting a cluster, there is no ability to add cluster nodes to Virtual Standby No workaround at this time. Virtual export
107755 When creating an archive using the Archive Wizard, if you return from the Options wizard page back to the Machines page, there is no ability to edit the date range. Close the wizard without saving the archive, and run through the wizard again. Archiving, usability
107346 When restoring or performing virtual export of a volume with 512-bytes per sector to a volume with 4096-bytes per sector, a warning message does not appear. For workaround, please see Quest Knowledge Base article 144232. Virtual export, notifications
107304 On a specific appliance environment, the error message "GetResponse Timed Out" appears when trying to open the Appliance page. Contact Quest Support for a patch to resolve this issue. Appliance, Core Console UI
107182 Encryption key does not apply to cluster nodes during cluster protection. Select encryption key for nodes manually in Settings. Encryption
106938 On a specific appliance environment, the "Storage Hardware" information is not available on the Appliance Health page. Contact Quest Support for a patch to resolve this issue. Appliance, Core Console UI
106545 When upgrading a Core (in languages other than English) that protects machines with Agent version earlier than 5.4.3.106, the Compatibility page of the Rapid Recovery Core Installer wizard incorrectly shows Agent version 7 in the message instead of Agent 6.2 or Agent 6.3 (based on the installer being used). None available. Disregard the version number. Protected machines with supported operating systems will be upgraded to Rapid Recovery Agent version 6.3. Installer, localization
105830 Rollup job does not merge replicated recovery points according to the retention policy if seed drive for older recovery points was not consumed. Consume the seed drive on the target core. Rollup jobs, replication, seed drive
105445 Trustedinstaller process called during every metadata request from Agent, consuming about 100MB of additional RAM. Contact for a patch to address this issue. Metadata
103477 If the Quest NetVault Backup with BMR plugin is installed on the same server as the Rapid Recovery Core, then ESXi exports fail. Copy the following DLLs from Coreservice\vddk\bin to the Coreservice folder, and then restart the Core service:
  • glib-2.0
  • gobject-2.0
  • gvmomi
  • iconv
  • intl
  • libcurl
  • libxml2
  • vixDiskLibVim
 Virtual exports
102390 Drive letters are not assigned on an exported machine that is identical to the original machine. Assign drive letters manually, or contact Support for a script to run on the exported machine that solves the issue. Virtual exports
97451 Volume letters are not assigned after BMR for GPT partitions of ESXi Agentless VM. Assign drive letters manually. BMR, ESXi agentless

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Table 3: Documentation known issues

Issue ID Known Issue Description Workaround Functional Area

109897

The following corrections were made to the Rapid Recovery 6.4 User Guide but not in the in-product help:

  1. References to former topic name "Managing licenses" in the Rapid Recovery Installation and Upgrade Guidehave been updated to "Understanding Rapid Recovery licenses." The topics in in-product help that use the older topic name are listed below:
    • Factors when choosing agent-based or agentless protection (first paragraph of subtopic "release 6.4 license consumption concepts")
    • Rapid Recovery Core settings (the table row that reads "Licensing")
    • How Rapid Recovery ses personal information (first sentence, and later in a bulleted list of resources)
    • Obtaining and using non-phone-home licenses (fourth paragraph)
  2. In the Core settings chapter of the User Guide, some updates were made to topics related to the DVM deduplication cache that do not appear in the 6.4 version of in-product help.
    • In topic "Understanding deduplication cache and storage locations," formatting changes only appear. Specifically, the alphabetic case has been changed from title case to sentence case in the table showing default storage location settings. When those steps refer to UI elements, they now appear in bold, following UI conventions for click steps.
    • In topic "Configuring DVM deduplication cache settings," in the table under step 5, the same formatting changes were applied to the same settings.
    • Additionally, in the row showing Deduplication cache size, the description has been changed to correctly show the current text box label (also set in boldface), and to include a note. The updated text reads:

      "If you want to change the deduplication cache size for DVM repositories, then in the Deduplication cache size (GB) text box, enter a new amount in gigabytes.

      Note: If you decrease the size of the deduplication cache, the existing contents of the cache are flushed, and the cache is recreated."

  3. In help, the Restoring data chapter topic "VMware VM configuration backup and restore" indicates that release 6.4 introduces the ability to back up VMware VM configurations. This capability was actually introduced to release 6.3; in release 6.4, you can also back up Hyper-V VM configurations, as described in Rapid Recovery 6.4 Release Notes topic "VM configuration backup and restore on Hyper-V." In the PDF/HTML version of the 6.4.0 User Guide, this topic is updated, and is now called "VM configuration backup and restore for VMware and Hyper-V".

Please refer to the PDF or HTML-based User Guide on the Quest technical documentation website to see the latest content in the topics specified.

When reviewing these topics within in-product help, disregard the minor discrepancies, and take heed of the updated information regarding deduplication cache which is flushed and re-created if the deduplication cache size is reduced.

 In-product help, technical product documentation

109793

Within in-product help, on the Settings page of the Core Console, if you click the [Help icon] Help icon for the License Details Core setting, a generic error message appears.

 

To read about licensing in release 6.4, see the Rapid Recovery 6.4 Installation and Upgrade Guide topic "Managing Rapid Recovery licenses."

In previous editions of in-product help, this Core setting included a link to information about licensing. That topic no longer appears in the User Guide or in-product help.

The [Help icon] Help icon will not appear in future editions of in-product help.

In-product help, Rapid Recovery Core Console, Core Settings, License Details

N/A The information for the following third-party components has been added or updated in Rapid Recovery Core release 6.4 after in-product help was produced.

The following notifications comprise supplemental updates to in-product help for third-party contributions. Their purpose is to provide proper attribution and meet legal and copyright requirements related to the use of the listed components.

 Consult these notifications in Release Notes for the latest updates to legal and copyright requirements. In-product help, Third-party components, copyrights, legal requirements

 
  • Component p7zip 16.0.2 is not included in the list of third-party components available from in-product help for release 6.5.

Component p7zip 16.0.2 uses the Mozilla Public License (MPL) 1.1. A copy of the MPL can be found as a linked license in Rapid Recovery's Third-Party Components link within in-product help.

 

 
  • Component NBD is a Linux component which, when compiled into the kernel, lets Linux use remote servers as one of its network block devices. This software component is not used by Rapid Recovery Core but may be required by protected Linux agents.

    Quest is required to indicate where a copy of the source code for this GPL component is located. Component NBD is incorrectly noted within 6.4.0 in-product help as being available on the Linux DVD.

This component is not actually used by Rapid Recovery, but may be used by protected Linux machines.

NBD is not available on the Linux DVD. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Oracle Linux installation packages download NBD source code from a publicly-accessible web location. Direct links differ based on distribution used; see the relevant Rapid Recovery Agent installation package. For assistance, please contact Quest Data Protection Support.

Component NBD (various versions) uses the GNU General Public License 2.0, which can be found in Rapid Recovery's Third-Party Components link within in-product help. The copyright attributions there are accurate and complete.

 

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Table 4: Linux known issues

Issue ID Known Issue Description Workaround Functional Area
107984 When installing Rapid Recovery Agent on a Linux machine, minor misspellings appear on the command line for firewall settings. No workaround at this time. The text "Configured manualy. May be reconfigured…" is expected to be changed to "Configured manually. This may be reconfigured...". Linux, Agent installation

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Table 5: Local Mount Utility known issues

Issue ID Known Issue Description Workaround Functional Area
108540 Toast pop-up notifications appear outside of the Local Mount Utility application window/frame. No workaround at this time. Notification
107756 Tthere is no ability to set Core Connection Timeout using the LMU UI. You can set the Core Connection Timeout using the Windows registry using key CoreConnectionTimeout. For more information, see Quest Knowledge Base article 210006. LMU, Connection timeout
110364 [LMU] There is no ability to open Exchange databases for ESXi agentless VMs due to error database does not exist    

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