Management Console; Supported Operating Systems; Hardware Requirements - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Linux Installation Manual

can choose not to install the bootable components and perform operations that require reboot using
bootable media.
Acronis Bootable Media Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media containing the
bootable components. The media builder creates bootable media that represents volumes and
network in the Linux-like style (hda1, sdb2, smb://server/share).
1.1.3.

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.

1.2. Supported operating systems

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
Agent for Linux
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Linux with kernel 2.4.18 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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