Supported Operating Systems; What You Need To Get Started; Installing And Starting To Use The Product - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 SERVER FOR LINUX Quick Start Manual

This document describes how to install and start using Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for
Linux.

1 Supported operating systems

 Linux with kernel 2.4.18 or later (including 2.6.x kernels) and glibc 2.3.2 or later
 Various Linux distributions, including:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5

CentOS 4 and 5
 Fedora 9 and 10
 Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

Debian 4 (Lenny) and 5 (Etch)

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
 openSUSE
 Asianux
 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.

2 What you need to get started

Make sure that you have:
 A machine running one of the supported Linux distributions, with at least 512 MB of physical
memory.
 A license key for the product.
 The installation file, which you can download from the product download Web page
http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/download/. To download the installation file, sign in to your
Acronis account (create it if you do not have one). Use this link regardless of whether you have a
trial or a full license key.

3 Installing and starting to use the product

The following steps will guide you through the installation and basic use of Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10.