Hardware Requirements - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Installation Manual

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Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003/2008* x64 Editions
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Windows Vista - all editions except for Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium
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Windows 7 - all editions except for the Starter and Home editions*
* Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node handles tape libraries and autoloaders by using
Removable Storage Management (RSM). Since Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 do
not support RSM, a storage node installed in these operating systems does not support tape
libraries and autoloaders.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows
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Windows 2000 Professional SP4/XP Professional SP2+
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Windows 2000 Server/2000 Advanced Server/Server 2003/Server 2008
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Windows SBS 2003/SBS 2008
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Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003/2008 x64 Editions
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Windows Vista - all editions except for Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium
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Windows 7 - all editions except for the Starter and Home editions
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Linux
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Linux with kernel 2.4.20 or later (including 2.6.x kernels) and glibc 2.3.2 or later
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Various Linux distributions, including:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5
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CentOS 4 and 5
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Fedora 9 and 10
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Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
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Debian 4 (Lenny) and 5 (Etch)
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
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openSUSE
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Asianux
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x64 versions of the above Linux distributions and other Linux distributions are also supported.
The 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
Scientific Linux, make sure that the following 32-bit packages are installed in the system:
pam.i386
libselinux.i386
libsepol.i386
These packages should be available in the repository of your Linux distribution.

1.3. Hardware requirements

This section lists the minimum and recommended hardware requirements to install and run Acronis
Backup & Recovery 10 components.
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