Deployment Guide

The method for installing and removing the Agent software on Linux machines has changed. As of release 6.0.1, the following
factors apply:
● One set of instructions applies to installations of Agent on a Linux machine with current access to the Internet. This is
referred to as online installation. Instead of using shell scripts, package managers are used to install or remove the Rapid
Recovery software from a repository referenced on the local Linux machine.
NOTE: The repository is used for staging of files for the relevant package managers. This repository is not related to the
Rapid Recovery repository.
● If installing Agent on a Linux machine with no access to the Internet (such as an air-gapped or secured standalone machine),
this is referred to as offline installation. For this process, you must first download an installation package from a Linux
machine with Internet access, and then move those installation files to the secured computer for installation.
Because the various supported Linux distributions use different package managers for online installation, the procedure for
installing, upgrading, or removing Agent on any supported Linux OS depends on the package manager used. The package
managers, and the Linux distributions they support, are described in the following table.
Table 9. Package managers and the Linux distributions they support
Package Manager Linux Distribution
yum Linux distributions based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), including RHEL, CentOS, and Oracle
Linux.
zypper SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) versions 11, 12
apt Linux distributions based on Debian, including Debian 7 or 8, and Ubuntu 12.04 and later
As a one-time setup step for each Linux machine, you must configure your local software repository to point to the location
where the package manager obtains Dell Rapid Recovery installation files.
NOTE:
This process is represented by steps 1 through 4 in each of the installation procedures. When upgrading future
editions of the Rapid Recovery Agent on a Linux machine with the repository configured, you will not need to perform these
steps.
After you configure a software repository on your Linux machine, the package manager is able to retrieve and install the
packages needed for installation or removal of Rapid Recovery Agent software and related components, such as aamount (now
called local mount), aavdisk (now called rapidrecovery-vdisk), and Mono (an open source, Ecma standard-compliant, .NET
Framework-compatible tool set used for porting the Agent software to Linux platforms).
For each package manager, you can run the appropriate command at the command line to determine if it is configured to
download Rapid Recovery packages. These commands are listed in the following table.
Table 10. Command to show package manager repository configuration
Package Manager Command to list configured repositories
yum yum replolist
zypper zypper repos
apt ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d
Previous versions of the AppAssure Agent software must be completely removed from a Linux machine before installing the
Rapid Recovery Agent version and protecting the Linux machine using the Rapid Recovery Core. This is true for online or offline
installations. Removing AppAssure Agent employs the use of shell scripts. The uninstall instructions differ, depending on the
Linux distribution you are using. For more information on uninstalling AppAssure Agent from a Linux machine, see the topic
“Uninstalling the AppAssure Agent software from a Linux machine” in the Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery 6.0 Installation
and Upgrade Guide.
NOTE:
Removal of the new Rapid Recovery Agent software uses the package manager for each distribution. Therefore, if
uninstalling a version of Rapid Recovery Agent, see the appropriate procedure under the topic see the topic “Uninstalling
the AppAssure Agent software from a Linux machine” in the Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery 6.0 Installation and
Upgrade Guide.
If installing Rapid Recovery Agent on a Linux machine that has never had AppAssure Agent installed, determine the appropriate
package manager from the preceding table. Then follow the appropriate installation procedure.
After configuring the newly installed Agent software on a Linux machine, you must restart the machine. Restarting ensures that
the proper kernel driver version is used to protect your machine.
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