System Requirements - Server Backup Manager for Linux

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Server Backup Manager for Linux includes the following system requirements:

Hardware

Notice
A 64-bit Linux operating system is required. Due to the limitations of the 32-bit address space, the 32-bit Enterprise Backup Managers are limited to a maximum of two (2) simultaneous backup tasks.

Hardware

Requirements

Linux Kernel

2.6.9 to 3.11.x

Physical Memory

1 GB of RAM per open disk safe (concurrent backup/restores) with an additional 2 GB RAM per terabyte of backups

CPU

2 cores minimum plus 1 core per concurrent backup/restore task

Free Disk Space

Minimum 10 GB (100 GB+ Recommended) for the Server Backup Manager installation

Note
Replication and file restore reports are stored in the installation directory. Storage space required depends on how long reporting history is retained and how frequently policies and file restores are run.

Primary Storage Types

Directly Attached Storage including:
IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS, ISCSI, Fibre Channel, Dynamic Disks (Software RAID), Hardware RAID, Solid State Drives (SSD)

Virtualization

MS Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer 5, Xen Source Hypervisor

Note
For best performance, install the Enterprise Backup Manager repository on dedicated physical hardware.

Disk Safe Locations

Directly Attached Storage, Network Attached Storage including:
IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS, ISCSI, Fibre Channel, Dynamic Disks (Software RAID), Hardware RAID, Solid State Drives (SSD), NFS

Notes

If using NFS on Linux, R1Soft recommends that you use the latest available NFS versions and the latest stable Linux kernels, and that you never export NFS file systems to where you store Disk Safes with the "async" option.
We are unable to support FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) file systems.

Disk Safe Storage

Minimum 1x Primary Storage* (Recommended 2-4x Primary Storage of Agents)
*with compression enabled

Linux Distributions

Recommended
Stable 64-Bit Linux Distributions are required for best performance. 32 bit binaries will not be provided in the future.

If a new edition is issued, we support this new release within 90 days. This way, you do not have to update as the OS is released.

The following distributions are supported for 64-bit (x64):

RedHat Enterprise
CentOS
Ubuntu
Debian
Novell SUSE Enterprise Server

Web Browsers

These web browsers can be used to access the web-based interface of the application.

Browser	Versions
Chrome	11.x or later
Firefox	5.x or later
Internet Explorer	8 or later

Backup Agent

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