Installation Guide

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1.4 Supported operating systems
Acronis Backup Management Console, Acronis Backup Agent for Linux
Linux with kernel from 2.4.20 to 4.4 and glibc 2.3.2 or later
Various x86 and x86_64 Linux distributions, including:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2
Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10, 14.04, 14.10, 15.04,
and 15.10
Fedora 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 – supported on file systems, except for Btrfs
Debian 4, 5, 6, 7.0, 7.2, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2
CentOS 5.x, 6.x, and 7.0
Oracle Linux 5.x, 6.x, 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2 – both Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and Red Hat
Compatible Kernel
CloudLinux 6.x
ClearOS 5.x, 6.x, 7, and 7.1
Before installing the product on a system that does not use RPM Package Manager, such as
an Ubuntu system, you need to install this manager manually; for example, by running the
following command (as the root user): apt-get install rpm
1.5 System requirements
Acronis Backup for Linux Server
To calculate the total required disk space, add up the values specified in the third and fourth columns
of the table for the components you are planning to install.
Component
Memory (above
the OS and
running
applications)
Disk space required
during installation or
update
Disk space occupied
by the component(s)
Additional
Acronis Backup for Linux
Server
(complete installation)
500 MB
420 MB
700 MB
Screen resolution
800*600 pixels or
higher
Bootable Media Builder
(Linux)
130 MB
300 MB
330 MB
Bootable media
Media type
Memory
ISO image size
Additional
Linux-based (32-bit)
512 MB
130 MB
Linux-based (64-bit)
1 GB
175 MB
2 Installing Acronis Backup
This section helps answer questions that might arise during the product installation.