Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Review Table 19 and notes to ensure that you are using the supported version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0-6.4 (Can be used as a proxy for NDMP backup.)
Table 19a. Available features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2
Catalogic DPX Master Server
❌
Device or SAN Device Server
✅
File-level Backup
✅
Block-level Backup
✅
Open File Management
✅
Open file management is supported for block-level backup only.
Image Backup for Seeding
❌
BMR
❌
NDMP Proxy
✅
Cluster Support
❌
Supported File Systems for Block Backup
Ext3
Ext4
XFS
XFS BLI support requires V7.2 or later; 64-bit inodes are not supported.
Table 19b. Available features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1
Catalogic DPX Master Server
❌
Device or SAN Device Server
✅
File-level Backup
✅
Block-level Backup
✅
Open File Management
✅
Open file management is supported for block-level backup only.
Image Backup for Seeding
❌
BMR
❌
NDMP Proxy
✅
Cluster Support
❌
Supported File Systems for Block Backup
Ext3
Ext4
XFS
XFS BLI support requires V7.2 or later; 64-bit inodes are not supported.
Table 19c. Available features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0
Catalogic DPX Master Server
❌
Device or SAN Device Server
✅
File-level Backup
✅
Block-level Backup
✅
Open File Management
✅
Open file management is supported for block-level backup only.
Image Backup for Seeding
❌
BMR
❌
NDMP Proxy
✅
Cluster Support
❌
Supported File Systems for Block Backup
Ext3
Ext4
XFS
XFS BLI support requires V7.2 or later; 64-bit inodes are not supported.
Table 19d. Available features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8
Catalogic DPX Master Server
❌
Device or SAN Device Server
✅
File-level Backup
✅
Block-level Backup
✅
Open File Management
✅
Open file management is supported for block-level backup only.
Image Backup for Seeding
❌
BMR
✅
For BMR: a) Restoring to IDE or GPT disks on the target machine is not supported, however DPX 4.5.1 and later supports RHEL/CentOS Linux 7.3 and 7.4 using UEFI boot with GPT disk; b) Recovery to dissimilar hardware is supported but manual driver installation may be needed; d) The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB; e) Linux BMR support when the whole system is on multipath device is not supported. BMR for Linux using UEFI boot is unsupported.
NDMP Proxy
✅
Cluster Support
❌
Supported File Systems for Block Backup
Ext3
Ext4
XFS
XFS BLI support requires V7.2 or later; 64-bit inodes are not supported.
Table 19e. Available features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7
Catalogic DPX Master Server
❌
Device or SAN Device Server
✅
File-level Backup
✅
Block-level Backup
✅
Open File Management
✅
Open file management is supported for block-level backup only.
Image Backup for Seeding
❌
BMR
✅
For BMR: a) Restoring to IDE or GPT disks on the target machine is not supported, however DPX 4.5.1 and later supports RHEL/CentOS Linux 7.3 and 7.4 using UEFI boot with GPT disk; b) Recovery to dissimilar hardware is supported but manual driver installation may be needed; d) The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB; e) Linux BMR support when the whole system is on multipath device is not supported. BMR for Linux using UEFI boot is unsupported.
NDMP Proxy
✅
Cluster Support
❌
Supported File Systems for Block Backup
Ext3
Ext4
XFS
XFS BLI support requires V7.2 or later; 64-bit inodes are not supported.
Table 19f. Available features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
Catalogic DPX Master Server
✅
Device or SAN Device Server
✅
File-level Backup
✅
Block-level Backup
✅
Open File Management
✅
Open file management is supported for block-level backup only.
Image Backup for Seeding
❌
BMR
✅
For BMR: a) Restoring to IDE or GPT disks on the target machine is not supported, however DPX 4.5.1 and later supports RHEL/CentOS Linux 7.3 and 7.4 using UEFI boot with GPT disk; b) Recovery to dissimilar hardware is supported but manual driver installation may be needed; d) The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB; e) Linux BMR support when the whole system is on multipath device is not supported. BMR for Linux using UEFI boot is unsupported.
NDMP Proxy
✅
Cluster Support
❌
Supported File Systems for Block Backup
Ext3
Ext4
XFS
XFS BLI support requires V7.2 or later; 64-bit inodes are not supported.
Table 19g. Available features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
Catalogic DPX Master Server
✅
Device or SAN Device Server
✅
File-level Backup
✅
Block-level Backup
✅
Open File Management
✅
Open file management is supported for block-level backup only.
Image Backup for Seeding
❌
BMR
✅
For BMR: a) Restoring to IDE or GPT disks on the target machine is not supported, however DPX 4.5.1 and later supports RHEL/CentOS Linux 7.3 and 7.4 using UEFI boot with GPT disk; b) Recovery to dissimilar hardware is supported but manual driver installation may be needed; d) The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB; e) Linux BMR support when the whole system is on multipath device is not supported. BMR for Linux using UEFI boot is unsupported.
NDMP Proxy
✅
Cluster Support
❌
Supported File Systems for Block Backup
Ext3
Ext4
XFS
XFS BLI support requires V7.2 or later; 64-bit inodes are not supported.
Table 19h. Available features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0-7.4
Catalogic DPX Master Server
✅
Device or SAN Device Server
✅
File-level Backup
✅
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.
Block-level Backup
✅
LVM2 is required. Only the default uniprocessor or SMP kernel packages provided by the Linux vendor for the distribution are supported. The libnsl library must be installed for the Catalogic DPX Client support.
Open File Management
✅
Open file management is supported for block-level backup only.
Image Backup for Seeding
✅
Only base backup is supported (for seeding purpose).
BMR
✅
For BMR: a) Restoring to IDE or GPT disks on the target machine is not supported, however DPX 4.5.1 and later supports RHEL/CentOS Linux 7.3 and 7.4 using UEFI boot with GPT disk; b) Recovery to dissimilar hardware is supported but manual driver installation may be needed; d) The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB; e) Linux BMR support when the whole system is on multipath device is not supported. BMR for Linux using UEFI boot is unsupported.
NDMP Proxy
✅
Can be used as a proxy for NDMP backup.
Cluster Support
❌
Supported File Systems for Block Backup
Ext3
Ext4
Extended file system attributes are supported.
XFS
XFS BLI support requires V7.2 or later; 64-bit inodes are not supported.
Table 19i. Available features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0-6.4 (Can be used as a proxy for NDMP backup.)
Catalogic DPX Master Server
✅
Device or SAN Device Server
✅
File-level Backup
✅
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.
Block-level Backup
✅
LVM2 is required. Only the default uniprocessor or SMP kernel packages provided by the Linux vendor for the distribution are supported.
Open File Management
✅
Open file management is supported for block-level backup only.
Image Backup for Seeding
❌
BMR
✅
For BMR: a) Restoring to IDE or GPT disks on the target machine is not supported, however DPX 4.5.1 and later supports RHEL/CentOS Linux 7.3 and 7.4 using UEFI boot with GPT disk; b) Recovery to dissimilar hardware is supported but manual driver installation may be needed; d) The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB; e) Linux BMR support when the whole system is on multipath device is not supported. BMR for Linux using UEFI boot is unsupported.
NDMP Proxy
✅
Can be used as a proxy for NDMP backup.
Cluster Support
❌
Supported File Systems for Block Backup
Ext3
Ext4
Extended file system attributes are supported.
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