Table of Contents
Prerequisites #
To add the Acronis Backup modules to Linux kernel, setup program needs the following Linux packages:
- Package for building kernel modules. Package version must match kernel version.
- GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) compiler system. GCC version must be the one with which the kernel was compiled.
- Make tool.
Check if the required packages installed #
- Run the following command to find out the kernel version and the required GCC version:
cat /proc/version
- Run the following command to check whether the Make tool and the GCC compiler are installed:
make -v gcc -v
Compare the version of gcc with information from the
cat /proc/version
command - Check whether the appropriate version of the packages for building kernel modules is installed:
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Fedora, run the following command:yum list installed | grep kernel-devel
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.
Install the required packages #
The following table lists how to install the required packages in various Linux distributions.
Linux distribution | Package names | How to install |
---|---|---|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
kernel-devel gcc make |
The setup program will download and install the packages automatically by using your Red Hat subscription. |
CentOS |
kernel-devel gcc make |
The setup program will download and install the packages automatically. |
Fedora |
kernel-devel gcc make |
Run the following commands as the root user (specify the required GCC version in the GCC package name):
yum install kernel- devel-` uname -r` yum install gcc-4.5.1 yum install make |
Ubuntu |
linux -headers linux -image gcc make |
Run the following commands (specify the required GCC version in the GCC package name):
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get installlinux -headers-`uname -r` sudo apt-get installlinux -image-`uname -r` sudo apt-get install gcc-4.6 sudo apt-get install make |
Linux Agent installation prerequisites #
Make sure that the RPM Package Manager (RPM) is installed in your system. Before installing the product on a Linux distribution that does not use RPM, such as Ubuntu, you need to install RPM manually; for example, by running the following command:
sudo yum install rpm
(Red Hat based distributions)sudo apt-get install rpm
(Debian based distributions)
Installation procedure #
Show Example installation on CentOS 7
- Log in as the root user.
- Download and launch the installation package. Package is downloaded as a binary file. To launch .bin file make it executable:
- open terminal
- navigate to the folder where installation package is saved
chmod +x Backup_Agent_for_Linux_x86_64.bin
orchmod 755 filename.bin
(to make this file executable)./Backup_Agent_for_Linux_x86_64.bin
(to run the file)
- Accept the terms of license agreement.
- Specify Backup Account credentials.
- Now when you have the Agent installed, the computer is available in Backup Management Console and you can back up your data: