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Version: DPX Compatibility 4.13

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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

Available features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1–9.4​

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 BackupEXT
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0​

Catalogic DPX Master Server❌
Device or SAN Device Server✅
File-level Backup✅
Block-level Backup❌
BMR❌
NDMP Proxy✅
Cluster❌

Available features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7–7.9​

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 BackupEXT
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6–7.0​

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 BackupEXT
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.