Alma Linux

Review the tables and notes below to ensure that you are using the supported version of Alma Linux:

Available features for Alma Linux 9.1–9.3

Catalogic DPX Master Server

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

Block-level Backup

  • Block backup, IA mapping, selective restore, and volume restore are supported.

  • Instant Virtualization is not supported.

  • BMR is supported.

BMR

  • The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB.

  • Not compatible with devices using multipath.

NDMP Proxy

Cluster

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

EXT

XFS

  • DPX file-level backup is supported with most OS-supported file systems. Extended file system attributes are supported with EXT4/3/2 and XFS. File-level backup for XFS file system is not supported for partitions above 1 TB; use block-level backup technology to back up XFS partitions more than 1 TB.

  • XFS BLI support requires V7.2 or later. 64-bit inodes are not supported.

Available features for Alma Linux 9.0

Catalogic DPX Master Server

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

Block-level Backup

  • Block backup, IA mapping, selective restore, and volume restore are supported.

  • Instant Virtualization is not supported.

  • BMR is supported.

BMR

  • The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB.

  • Not compatible with devices using multipath.

NDMP Proxy

Cluster

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

EXT

Available features for Alma Linux 8.8

Catalogic DPX Master Server

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

Block-level Backup

  • Block backup, IA mapping, selective restore, and volume restore are supported.

  • Instant Virtualization is not supported.

  • BMR is supported.

BMR

  • The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB.

  • Not compatible with devices using multipath.

NDMP Proxy

Cluster

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

EXT

XFS

  • DPX file-level backup is supported with most OS-supported file systems. Extended file system attributes are supported with EXT4/3/2 and XFS. File-level backup for XFS file system is not supported for partitions above 1 TB; use block-level backup technology to back up XFS partitions more than 1 TB.

  • XFS BLI support requires V7.2 or later. 64-bit inodes are not supported.

Available features for Alma Linux 8.7

Catalogic DPX Master Server

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

Block-level Backup

  • Block backup, IA mapping, selective restore, and volume restore are supported.

  • Instant Virtualization is not supported.

  • BMR is supported.

BMR

  • The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB.

  • Not compatible with devices using multipath.

NDMP Proxy

Cluster

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

EXT

XFS

  • DPX file-level backup is supported with most OS-supported file systems. Extended file system attributes are supported with EXT4/3/2 and XFS. File-level backup for XFS file system is not supported for partitions above 1 TB; use block-level backup technology to back up XFS partitions more than 1 TB.

  • XFS BLI support requires V7.2 or later. 64-bit inodes are not supported.

Available features for Alma Linux 8.6

Catalogic DPX Master Server

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

Block-level Backup

  • Block backup, IA mapping, selective restore, and volume restore are supported.

  • Instant Virtualization is not supported.

  • BMR is supported.

BMR

  • The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB.

  • Not compatible with devices using multipath.

NDMP Proxy

Cluster

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

EXT

XFS

  • DPX file-level backup is supported with most OS-supported file systems. Extended file system attributes are supported with EXT4/3/2 and XFS. File-level backup for XFS file system is not supported for partitions above 1 TB; use block-level backup technology to back up XFS partitions more than 1 TB.

  • XFS BLI support requires V7.2 or later. 64-bit inodes are not supported.

Available features for Alma Linux 8.5

Catalogic DPX Master Server

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

Block-level Backup

  • Block backup, IA mapping, selective restore, and volume restore are supported.

  • Instant Virtualization is not supported.

  • BMR is supported.

BMR

  • The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB.

  • Not compatible with devices using multipath.

NDMP Proxy

Cluster

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

EXT

XFS

  • DPX file-level backup is supported with most OS-supported file systems. Extended file system attributes are supported with EXT4/3/2 and XFS. File-level backup for XFS file system is not supported for partitions above 1 TB; use block-level backup technology to back up XFS partitions more than 1 TB.

  • XFS BLI support requires V7.2 or later. 64-bit inodes are not supported.

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