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What operating systems does LiveVault support?

John Barnard
posted this on October 24, 2011 10:19

Windows. Your computer must meet the following system requirements in order to effectively utilize the LiveVault Service.

Windows Server 2008, 32-bit and 64-bit
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, or Web Edition, with Service Pack 1 or better or hotfix 833167)
Windows 2003 64-bit R1 and R2
Windows Storage Server 2003
Windows 2000 (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, or Server Appliance Kit with Service Pack 4 or later)

NOTE: 2-node clusters supported on Windows 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2.

Internet Explorer (version 6.0 or newer), 1024.768 resolution

FAT32 and NTFS or NTFS 5.0 with Windows 2000
NTFS or NTFS 5.0 with Windows 2003

Note: LiveVault InSync™ does not support Direct File System drives (or the RAW file system) but does support EFS and compressed files.

1GHz or faster CPU technology

Note: After initial backup completes, LiveVault CPU usage is generally less than 5%. Actual CPU usage depends on processor speed and data load.

128 MB of free memory under normal load

5% or 300 MB free disk space (whichever is greater; typically 5%) on each partition with backed up data

100GB

Operating System	Maximum Data Protected
Windows 2000 SP4 and SR-1	250GB
Windows Server 2003 pre-SP1 or Storage Server 2003 pre- SP1 (must have hotfix 833167 installed)	100GB
Windows Server 2003 SP1 or Windows Storage Server 2003 SP1	500GB

Linux and Solaris. Your computer must meet the following system requirements in order to effectively utilize the LiveVault Service. In addition, please review the notes about Linux and Solaris following the table.

Operating System	Sun Solaris 9, 10 (for Sparc architecture only) Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3, 4 (for x86 architecture only) SUSE Linux 10.0
Browser	Internet Explorer (version 6.0 or newer), 1024.768 resolution
File System	Sun Solaris: UFS Red Hat: ext2 and ext3 SUSE Linux ReiserFS
CPU	UltraSparc IIi 270mHz Pentium compatible 200mHz Note: After initial backup completes, LiveVault CPU usage is generally less than 5%. Actual CPU usage depends on processor speed and data load.
Additional RAM	256MB of free memory under normal load for Solaris 256MB of free memory under normal load for Linux
Available Disk Space	5% free disk space
Maximum Single File Size	100GB
Maximum Data Protected	100GB

Notes About Protecting Linux and Solaris Systems

The LiveVault Service on Linux and Solaris has some differences from the Service on Windows.

All users of the Linux or Solaris LiveVault agent should be aware of the following points:

Linux and Solaris do not exclusively open files, so it is possible to backup any file at any time. However, it probably does not make sense to do so; the backup may get an inconsistent version of the open file. To allow for backup of databases and other open files, the user interface provides a pre- and post- processing feature. If you have databases being backed up today, you either close the databases before backing them up, or you have a procedure that interacts with the database to allow backup of consistent data. You will want to use the same mechanism with LiveVault.
You can set the backup schedule to backup multiple times per day, however, typically you will want to backup only once a night. The reason is that each time a backup runs, it must do a file system scan to determine what has changed since the last backup. If you have many files or large open databases this can place a significant processing load on your server at a time when users are active.
Full system disaster recovery is not supported. (Full DR support is available for Windows.)