Acronis Backup for Linux Server Version 11.
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Table of contents 1 Before installation .................................................................................................................4 1.1 About using the product in the trial mode ................................................................................4 1.2 Licenses for Acronis Backup and Acronis Backup Advanced .....................................................4 1.3 Acronis Backup components ..............................................................................
1 Before installation This section answers questions that might arise before the product installation. 1.1 About using the product in the trial mode Before buying an Acronis Backup license, you may want to try the software. This can be done without a license key. To install the product in the trial mode, run the setup program locally or use the remote installation functionality. Unattended installation and other ways of installation are not supported.
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1.3 Acronis Backup components This section contains a list of Acronis Backup components with a brief description of their functionality. Components for a managed machine (agents) These are applications that perform data backup, recovery and other operations on the machines managed with Acronis Backup. Agents require a license to perform operations on each managed machine. Console The console provides Graphical User Interface to the agents. Usage of the console is not licensed.
1.3.2 Management Console Acronis Backup Management Console is an administrative tool for local access to Acronis Backup agent. 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. The media builder that installs on Linux creates bootable media based on Linux kernel. 1.4 Supported operating systems Acronis Backup Management Console, Acronis Backup Agent for Linux Linux with kernel from 2.4.20 to 3.
2 Installing Acronis Backup This section helps answer questions that might arise during the product installation. 2.1 Preparation This section describes preparatory steps for installation in Linux. 2.1.1 RPM Package Manager Make sure that the RPM Package Manager (RPM) is installed in your system.
In Ubuntu, run the following commands: dpkg --get-selections | grep linux-headers dpkg --get-selections | grep linux-image In either case, ensure that the package versions are the same as in Linux version in step 1. Installing the packages from the repository The following table lists how to install the required packages in various Linux distributions.
Example: Installing the packages manually in Fedora 14 Follow these steps to install the required packages in Fedora 14 on a 32-bit machine: 1. Run the following command to determine the kernel version and the required GCC version: cat /proc/version The output of this command includes the following: Linux version 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 gcc version 4.5.1 2. Obtain the kernel-devel and gcc packages that correspond to this kernel version: kernel-devel-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686.rpm gcc-4.5.1-4.fc14.i686.rpm 3.
2.3 Installation in the unattended mode To install the product in the unattended mode (without asking for confirmations), run the installation file with the -a command-line parameter. You may need to use other parameters (p. 11) to specify how to perform the installation. The following example assumes that the name of the installation file is AcronisBackupL.i686. The following command installs Acronis Backup in the unattended mode and uses the license key 12345-7890-ABCDE: ./AcronisBackupL.
Specifies the name of the component being installed: For Acronis Backup Agent for Linux: BackupAndRecoveryAgent For Acronis Backup Bootable Components and Media Builder: BackupAndRecoveryBootableComponents For Acronis Backup Management Console: ManagementConsole The names are case-sensitive. Without this parameter, all components will be installed. -v or --version Displays the product version and then exits. -? or --help Displays help and then exits. --usage Displays a brief usage message and then exits.
Step 1. Changing licenses On each machine where you want to upgrade Acronis Backup, change a license as follows: 1. Run Acronis Backup. 2. On the Help menu, click Change license. 3. Click Change to the right of License for backup of disks/files, click Change, and then click Use the following license keys. 4. Enter the new license keys for this machine. 5. Click OK to apply the new licenses, click Yes in the warning message, and then click OK.
Tips for further usage The added machines will appear in the Machines with agents view of the management server. The backup plans on the machines will remain intact. To view them on the management server, right-click the machine name > View details > Backup plans and tasks. The product continues doing backups and you can recover from the backups created before the upgrade. You can now create centralized backup plans that will simultaneously back up several machines to a single location.
After you click OK, Acronis Backup will start deleting the zone.
