Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux requires an active subscription.
Minimal installation is required.
Supported browsers
Administrative UI supports the following browsers. We recommend that you use the most up-to-date browser that's compatible with your operating system.
Chrome (latest version)
MariaDB
Storware Backup & Recovery server requires a MariaDB database server.
Supported MariaDB versions: 10.11
We recommend installing MariaDB from the official repository.
If you need to install MariaDB packages without accessing an external repository during Storware Backup & Recovery installation you also can download RPMs and install them manually as described here
Hardware Requirements
Minimum requirements for all-in-one installation (Storware Backup & Recovery server and node on the same host):
64-bit, 8 processing cores
10 GB RAM
20GB free disk space for the operating system and Storware Backup and Recovery installation
Free disk space for data staging
You can estimate the free space requirement using the following equation:
(Size of the biggest virtual machine) * (number of parallel backup threads)
Minimum requirements for Storware Backup & Recovery server (standalone installation):
64-bit, 4 processing cores
4 GB RAM
20GB free disk space for the operating system and Storware Backup and Recovery installation
Minimum requirements for Storware Backup & Recovery node (standalone installation):
64-bit, 4 processing cores
6 GB RAM
20GB free disk space for the operating system and Storware Backup and Recovery installation
Free disk space for data staging
You can estimate the free space requirement using the following equation:
(Size of the biggest virtual machine) * (number of parallel backup threads)
Node <-> Server communication over HTTPS (port 443 or 8181)
Server
Node
111/tcp, 111/UDP, 2049/tcp, 2049/UDP, ports specified in /etc/sysconfig/nfs - variables MOUNTD_PORT (TCP and UDP), STATD_PORT (TCP and UDP), LOCKD_TCPPORT (TCP), LOCKD_UDPPORT (UDP)
NFS access to browse mountable backups and logs from administrative portal (using IP that is detected as the source IP - shown in the Node list in the portal)
Server
fallback-api.cloud.storware.eu
443/tcp
Subscription license renewal
Network bandwidth
Make sure to use a high-bandwidth, dedicated network for data transfers:
from the source to the node
from the node to the backup destination of your choice
Security Requirements
User Permissions
User vprotect must be a member of the group "disk".
Sudo privileges are required for the following commands:
Storware Backup & Recovery Node:
/usr/bin/targetcli
/usr/sbin/exportfs
/usr/sbin/kpartx
/usr/sbin/dmsetup
/usr/bin/qemu-nbd
/usr/bin/guestmount
/usr/bin/fusermount
/bin/mount
/bin/umount
/usr/sbin/parted
/usr/sbin/nbd-client
/usr/bin/tee
/opt/vprotect/scripts/vs/privileged.sh
/usr/bin/yum
/usr/sbin/mkfs.xfs
/usr/sbin/fstrim
/usr/sbin/xfs_growfs
/usr/bin/docker
/usr/bin/rbd
/usr/bin/chown
/usr/sbin/nvme
/bin/cp
/sbin/depmod
/usr/sbin/modprobe
/bin/bash
/usr/local/sbin/nbd-client
/bin/make
Storware Backup & Recovery server:
/opt/vprotect/scripts/application/vp_license.sh
/bin/umount
/bin/mount
SELinux
PERMISSIVE - currently, it interferes with the mountable backups (file-level restore) mechanism. Optionally can be changed to ENFORCING if the file-level restore is not required.
