Deployment Guide

• Restart the Linux machine

The instructions for installing the Agent software on a Linux machine differ slightly depending on the Linux distribution you are using.

For more information about preparing for and installing the Agent software for a Linux machine connected to the Internet, see the

appropriate topic. You can choose from the following sections:

• Installing the Rapid Recovery Agent software on Debian or Ubuntu

• Installing the Rapid Recovery Agent software on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

For more information about preparing for and installing the Agent software for a Linux machine that is not connected to the

Internet, see the topic:

• Installing the Agent software on offline Linux machines

Before you begin installation of Agent software, see the topics: Downloading the Linux distribution, About security, Location of Linux

Agent files, Agent dependencies, Linux scripting information in the Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery 6.0 Installation and

Upgrade Guide.

Location of Linux Agent files

There are several files required to support the Rapid Recovery Agent software on a Linux machine. For all supported Linux

distributions, these files are located in the following directories:

• mono:

/opt/apprecovery/mono

• agent:

/opt/apprecovery/agent

• local mount:

/opt/apprecovery/local_mount

• rapidrecovery-vdisk and aavdctl:

/usr/bin/aavdisk

• configuration files for rapidrecovery-vdisk:

/etc/apprecovery/aavdisk.conf

• wrappers for agent and local_mount

/usr/bin/agent

/usr/bin/local_mount

• autorun scripts for agent and rapidrecovery-vdisk:

/etc/init.d/rapidrecovery-agent

/etc/init.d/rapidrecovery-vdisk

Agent dependencies

The following dependencies are required and are installed as part of the Agent installer package:

• For Debian and Ubuntu:

– The rapidrecovery-agent requires:

dkms, gcc, make, linux-headers-‘uname-r‘

libc6 (>=2.7-18), libblkid1, libpam0g, libpcre3

– The rapidrecovery-mono requires:

libc6 (>=2.7-18)

• For Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Oracle Linux:

– The nbd-dkms requires

dkms, gcc, make, kernel-headers-‘uname-r‘ kernel-devel-‘uname-r‘