Management Console; Bootable Media Builder; Supported File Systems; Supported Operating Systems - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 SERVER FOR LINUX - UPDATE 3 User Manual

1.3.2

Management Console

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console is an administrative tool for local access to
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Linux. Remote connection to the agent is not possible.
1.3.3

Bootable Media Builder

Acronis Bootable Media Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media (p. 171). The media
builder that installs on Linux creates bootable media based on Linux kernel.

1.4 Supported file systems

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 can back up and recover the following file systems with the following
limitations:

FAT16/32
 NTFS

Ext2/Ext3/Ext4

ReiserFS3 - particular files cannot be recovered from disk backups located on Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10 Storage Node
 ReiserFS4 - volume recovery without the volume resize capability; particular files cannot be
recovered from disk backups located on Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node
 XFS - volume recovery without the volume resize capability; particular files cannot be recovered
from disk backups located on Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node

JFS - particular files cannot be recovered from disk backups located on Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10 Storage Node

Linux SWAP
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 can back up and recover corrupted or non-supported file systems
using the sector-by-sector approach.

1.5 Supported operating systems

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console, Acronis Backup & Recovery
10 Agent for Linux

Linux with kernel 2.4.18 or later (including 2.6.x kernels) and glibc 2.3.2 or later

Various 32-bit and 64-bit Linux distributions, including:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x and 5.x
 Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
 Fedora 11 and 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11

Debian 4 (Lenny) and 5 (Etch)

CentOS 5
 Agent for Linux is in fact a 32-bit executable. For authentication, the agent uses system libraries,
32-bit versions of which are not always installed by default with 64-bit distributions. When using
the agent on a 64-bit RedHat based distribution (such as RHEL, CentOS, Fedora), or on a 64-bit
SUSE distribution, make sure that the following 32-bit packages are installed in the system:
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