Linux for x360Recover

Written By Tami Sutcliffe (Super Administrator)

Updated at October 27th, 2023

Support for backup and recovery of Linux protected systems has arrived! 


Our x360Recover agent for Linux has been activated for all devices. 


Linux appliance 12.3.0 features:

  • Full image-based backups (for appliances and Direct-to-Cloud)
  • Local cache for Direct-to-Cloud
  • Analysis Tool support
  • Agent orchestration (for configuration management)
  • File and folder recovery
  • Bare Metal Restore  (BMR)
  • Full image recovery (via BMR)

Where to download the Linux agent 

Appliances (10.18.0 or newer) will see the Linux agent installation on the Downloads page:

Vaults (12.2.0 or higher) can find the Linux agent installation for Direct-to-Cloud on the Clients page:

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x360Recover – Supported Configurations for Linux

With appliance version 12.3.0 and newer, x360Recover provides support for backup and recovery of protected systems running various versions of Linux operating systems.

The following protected system configurations for Linux are supported:


Supported Linux operating systems

 

Debian Linux

  • Debian 10.x LTS (Buster)
  • Debian 11.x LTS (Bullseye)
  • Debian 12.x LTS (Bookworm)1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9**

Red Hat-based derivative Linux distributions

  • AlmaLinux versions 7, 8, and 92
  • CentOS version 7
  • Oracle Linux versions 7, 8, and 92
  • Rocky Linux versions 7, 8, and 92

Ubuntu Linux

  • 18.04 LTS (Bionic)
  • 20.04 LTS (Focal)
  • 22.04 LTS (Jammy)

Ubuntu-based derivative Linux distributions

  • ElementaryOS versions 6 and 71
  • Linux Mint versions 16.x and 17.x
  • ZorinOS version 16.x

Supported networking

  • 1G Network adapters and switches
  • 10G Network adapters and switches

 

Supported filesystems

  • Fat 16/32
  • Ext 2/3/4
  • XFS
  • NTFS1

 

Supported database application services

  • DB2
  • MySQL
  • Microsoft SQL Server for Linux
  • Oracle DB
  • Postgresql

 

Supported Virtual Disk formats

  • VMDK (VMware ESX/ESXi 3.x-6.x)
  • VMDK (VMware Workstation / Fusion)
  • VHD for Azure (Microsoft Azure)
  • VHD (Microsoft Hyper-V Gen-1 / Xen)
  • VHDX (Microsoft Hyper-V Gen-2)
  • VDI (VirtualBox)
  • QCOW2 (KVM)
  • RAW (KVM)

 

Supported DR recovery mechanisms

  • File and Folder Recovery
  • Bare-Metal Restore
  • Virtual Disk Export3
  • iSCSI Export3
  • Direct Virtualization3

 

Supported disk and boot configurations

  • Basic Disks with MBR/Legacy BIOS
  • Basic Disks with GPT/EFI BIOS
  • LVM Disks with Legacy BIOS4
  • LVM Disks with EFI BIOS4
  • LVM Disks with Legacy BIOS (Encrypted)4
  • LVM Disks with EFI BIOS (Encrypted)4
 

1 Requires Agent for Linux 3.5.0+
2 Due to a fundamental XFS filesystem incompatibility issue with Linux kernel versions less than 5.14.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (and related derivatives) require both Agent for Linux 3.5.0+ and x360Recover Appliance version 14.0.0.  Appliance 14.0.0 will be released in 2024 Q1
3 Requires appliance version 12.5.0+
4 LVM disk support is limited to single-disk LVM configurations.  Multi-disk LVM pools and RAID configurations are not yet supported.
 

 


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