Rapid Recovery
Fast backup and instant recovery for demanding RTOs and RPOs. With Rapid Recovery, you can back up and quickly recover anything — systems, apps and data — anywhere, whether it’s physical, virtual or in the cloud. This data recovery software allows you to run without restore, with zero impact on your users, as if the outage or data loss never happened. Connect to cloud simply and easily, and protect growing virtual environments automatically.
Key benefits
Simplify backup in the data center and cloud
Gain instant recovery with no impact to the business
Achieve granular recovery point objectives to reduce risk
Reduce backup storage requirements and costs
Leverage the cloud for backup, archiving and disaster recovery
Single solution for physical and virtual environments
Supported applications
Capabilities
Simplify backup and restore
Monitor and manage your entire backup and recovery environment — across multiple sites — from one cloud-based management console. This leading backup solution allows you to restore lost or damaged systems and data with near-zero recovery time, and with no impact to your users. Rapid Recovery backup software delivers one advanced, admin-friendly solution — with all capabilities included.
Address demanding recovery point objectives
This leading data backup solution leverages image-based snapshots, up to every five minutes, to address demanding recovery point objectives and reduce risk of data loss and downtime. Rapid Recovery tracks changed blocks to accelerate backups and reduce storage.
Wide application support
To keep business going, you need to protect your business-critical applications. Rapid Recovery delivers easy-to-use, application-consistent backup with lightning-fast recovery for file servers and applications on both Microsoft Windows and Linux systems.
Cloud-based backup, archive and disaster recovery
As a leading cloud backup solution, Rapid Recovery lets you take advantage of low-cost public cloud storage. Use it to implement cloud-based data protection, archiving and disaster recovery. Rapid Recovery features point-and-click cloud connectivity, with easy replication of your critical application backups for no-stress cloud backup. Archive your static data to Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3 and Glacier, Rackspace, Google, or any OpenStack provider. Implement easy DRaaS in the Azure cloud with just a few clicks. You can even run Rapid Recovery as a replication target in the Azure cloud for free.
Virtual environment protection
Protect your physical and virtual environments with a single backup and recovery software solution. Enjoy agentless backup and recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SQL databases residing on your virtual machines. Leverage low-cost VM-only tiered licensing for on-premises and cloud virtual environments.
Data deduplication and replication
Significantly reduce storage requirements and associated costs by up to 95% with built-in compression and deduplication.
Industry recognition
The Golden Bridge Awards 2018 Winner
World Awards 2018 Gold Winner
Stevie Awards 2018 Bronze Winner
Stevie Awards 2017 Silver Winner
People’s Choice Stevie Awards 2017 Winner
V3 Technology Awards 2016 Winner
Features
Rapid Snap for Applications
Use incremental-forever snapshots to capture apps and their relevant state, up to every five minutes.
Rapid Snap for Virtual
Incremental-forever snapshots capture entire applications, up to every 5 minutes, with near-zero RTOs & aggressive RPOs
Live Recovery
Restore operations near-instantly with an RTO of minutes.
Virtual Standby
Continually send updates to any VM that can be activated in the event there’s an issue with the primary machine.
Replication
Easily replicate backups to one or more target Rapid Recovery cores anywhere — at no extra cost.
Deduplication and compression
Reduce storage requirements/costs up to 95% with built-in, in-line fixed block deduplication & optimized compression.
Universal Recovery
Restore at any level, from a single file, message, or data object to a physical machine or VM, even to dissimilar hardware.
Verified Recovery
Perform automated recovery testing and verification of backups to ensure they can be recovered.
Standards-compliant
Rapid Recovery’s encrypted backups are FIPS certified 140-2 Level 1, as well as GDPR-compliant.
QorePortal® integration
Monitor your entire backup environment from a single, intuitive cloud-based management portal.
Synthetic incremental backup
Optimize backups to take less space in repositories compared to full base images. You can configure synthetic incremental backups to automatically occur when Rapid Recovery cannot find the changed blocks.
Native Azure Storage repository
Azure-specific backup storage that is more cost-efficient than running DVM repositories in the cloud.
All-inclusive software
Lower your costs. Replication, Virtual Standby, and other advanced capabilities are included.
Become a Rapid Recovery Managed Services Provider
Join our award-winning MSP program recognized for excellence in backup, disaster recovery and business continuity.
Journeycall
Rapid Recovery is a fantastic solution and it is easy to use. It allowed me to finally go to bed and sleep safe in the knowledge that my backups were completing, being replicated out off site and being sent to a live standby.
George Mair IT & Comms Manager, JourneycallTour
Customizable dashboard
GUI
Protect Agentless Wizard
Flexible recovery
Notification Groups
QorePortal
Archive to anywhere
Application support
Customizable dashboard
Widgets link to details to quickly identify and resolve issues.
GUI
Speedy new GUI — filter machines for quicker management.
Protect Agentless Wizard
Select the virtual machines to protect. Supports Hyper-V and VMware.
Flexible recovery
Restore to a new or existing machine, export a VM or open a mount.
Notification Groups
Every event is notifiable to several targets.
QorePortal
Centralized management, reporting and dashboards for multiple Rapid Recovery cores.
Archive to anywhere
Archive long term storage locally or in the cloud.
Application support
Rapid Recovery supports Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and Oracle.
Specifications
- Operating System
The Rapid Recovery Core requires one of the following 64-bit Windows operating systems (OS). It does not run on 32-bit Windows systems or any Linux distribution.
- Microsoft Windows 10
- Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2*, 2016, 2019 (except Core editions)
Note: Windows operating systems require the .NET Framework 4.5.2 to be installed to run the Rapid Recovery Core service. Additionally, any OS marked with * requires the ASP .NET 4.5x role/feature. When installing or upgrading the Core, the installer checks for these components based on the OS of the Core server, and installs or activates them automatically if required.
- Memory
- 8GB RAM or more
- Processor
- Quad-core or higher
- Storage
- Direct attached storage, storage area network or network attached storage
- Network
- 1 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) minimum.
The Rapid Recovery Agent software supports a variety of 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Linux operating systems including the following:
- Microsoft Windows 10, Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2*, 2016, 2019
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4 - 6.10, 7.0 - 7.8, 8.0 - 8.2
- CentOS Linux 6.4 - 6.10, 7.0 - 7.8, 8.0 - 8.1
- Oracle Linux 6.4 - 6.10, 7.0 - 7.8, 8.0 - 8.2
- Debian Linux 9, 10
- Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4, 12 SP3, 15 SP1
- Application support
- SQL Server, Exchange Server, Oracle and SharePoint
- Virtualization platforms
- VMware vCenter/ESXi and VMware Workstation
- Hyper-V
- VirtualBox
Note: Systems requirements and supported platforms are updated regularly. Visit the Rapid Recovery Support Site for the most current information
Resources
Datasheet
Rapid Recovery
ZeroIMPACT recovery – anything to anywhere – physical, virtual and in the cloud.
Datasheet
QorePortal Datasheet
Cloud-based portal for managing Quest data protection solutions
Case Study
Journeycall Case Study
Call center quickly restores operations after disaster
Journeycall ensures fast restores and reliable disaster recovery, while freeing up
20 hours a week of valuable IT time, with Quest® data protection solutions.
Case Study
Advantage Waypoint: Mergers accelerate consolidation of IT operations
Advantage Waypoint deploys KACE appliances, Rapid Recovery and Data Protection to securely get disparate systems working as one so employees could resume business as usual following a series of mergers.
Case Study
Tarrant Technology Partners
Tarrant Technology Partners builds long-term relationships with customers by slashing data recovery time from days to just hours or minutes with our data protection solution, Rapid Recovery.
E-book
Downtime Costs How Much? Calculating the Business Value of Disaster Recovery
This eBook provides ideas on how to quantify the value of disaster recovery to the business.
White Paper
Six easy steps for migrating to Azure
This white paper outlines the six steps Quest Software took to build an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution in Azure, leveraging Foglight for Virtualization and Rapid Recovery to migrate workloads from its on-premises data centers.
E-book
9 Steps to Disaster Recovery Planning
In this e-book, we start by highlighting the top business threats, and then offer nine steps you can implement to build a business oriented DR plan
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