
Cristie VA 5.3.1 What’s New
Here’s an update on what’s new for the Cristie Virtual Appliance. The 5.3.1 release includes lots of new functionality including Continuous Recovery Assurance for Rubrik VM snapshots.
With our Continuous Recovery Assurance (CRA) technology, MSPs and enterprises can automate non-disruptive testing of recovery points, bringing Clean Room Recovery into everyday DR practices.
Verify recovery of complete systems in an isolated environment without physical network access.
Configure successful recoveries to be deleted automatically after verification, or held within the Cristie Applicance for further testing.
Automate concurrent recovery verifications or manually queue recoveries for priority testing.
Continuous Recovery Assurance triggers an automated full-system recovery verification whenever a protected backup job completes. The recovery runs inside a clean room environment on the Cristie Appliance or an externally configured server, ensuring backup integrity and verifying successful operating system boot.
As cyberattacks increasingly target backup systems, recovering data in a clean room environment is essential for verification. This approach enables isolated integrity testing and forensic analysis, ensuring backups are safe to restore while preventing malware from spreading to production systems. This approach breaks the “reinfection loop” often encountered when systems are recovered from non-verified backups.

Here’s an update on what’s new for the Cristie Virtual Appliance. The 5.3.1 release includes lots of new functionality including Continuous Recovery Assurance for Rubrik VM snapshots.

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