ActiveImage Protector 4.1 Readme

 

Revised on April 22, 2014

 

This document contains the following information. It is highly recommended that you read this document carefully before starting to use ActiveImage Protector.

 

Table of Contents

System Requirements

Precautions when upgrading from earlier version

User Guide and related documents

Limitations and Precautions

System Requirements

CPU

Pentium 4 or above

Main Memory

1024MB is required. (2048MB or above is recommended.)

Hard Disk Space

150MB or above of available hard disk space is required at setup.

* In addition to the above, the following hard disk space is required to reserve working space in "/var/opt". Normally, the following working space is automatically reserved when installing the product.

DVD-ROM Drive

Required to install the product (boot up the product) and boot up Boot Environment.

Linux Distributions

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is not supported.

CentOS

* CentOS 4 is not supported.

Note:

# mount -o remount,exec <Device Name>

libstdc++.i686, libuuid.i686, glibc.i686

* For further details, please visit here.

e4fsprogs

zlib.i686, libxcb.i686, libXrender.i686, libXext.i686, libXau.i686, libX11.i686, libSM.i686, libICE.i686, glib2.i686, freetype.i686, fontconfig.i686, expat.i686

* For further details, please visit here.

* For further details, please visit here.

File System

Linux Ext2 / Linux Ext3 / Linux Ext4 / Linux Swap / Linux LVM (volume group and logical volume) / Linux RAID

* As for backup image files for the file system other than the above, full sector backup is created.

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Precautions when upgrading from earlier version

Upgrade Procedures

Inherit settings / profiles from Version 4.0

Inherit settings / profiles from Version 3.5 or earlier

Activation Information

Even when you already activated the product for an earlier version, you need to activate the upgraded version again.

Compatibility between Boot Environment and Backup Images

#/opt/NetJapan/aiprestore_lvm_35

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User Guide and related documents

User Guide in Japanese and related documents can be found in [ja] - [Doc] folder in the product's media.

Related Documents

User Guide

The following User Guides can be found in [ja] - [Guide] folder.

Limitations and Precautions

Basic Points

Backup and Restore

Mount Image

Others

Connect to Remote Computer

Precautions for backup with Deduplication Compression option enabled in Boot Environment

Operation procedures using aipmng (CUI)

Basic Points

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Backup and Restore

For example, if you want to change the number of loopback devices to 16 when OS is booted up, please add the following command to "/etc/rc.local".

MAKEDEV -m 16 /dev/loop

# aipmng --restore

#/etc/aipsnap disable_tracker <Block Device Name>
#/etc/aipsnap enable_tracker <Block Device Name>

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Mount Image

 

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Others

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Connect to Remote Computer

Remote Host (Managed)

Please make sure Windows Firewall (iptables) exception settings are configured to open the following TCP/UDP ports.
When you install ActiveImage agent, you can select [Set firewall exception] option to automatically configure the exception settings to open the following ports.

If [system-config-firewall] (firewall setting tool provided by GUI) is used, please manually configure the settings to open the following TCP/UDP ports instead of using program's installer.

ActiveImage console (Managing)

Select [Set firewall exception] option when installing the program, the following ports are automatically set as firewall (iptables) exception.

If [system-config-firewall] (firewall setting tool provided by GUI) is used, please manually configure the settings to open the ports.

To install Windows management console, the required settings must be configured by using the program's installer.

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Precautions for backup with Deduplication Compression option enabled in Boot Environment

default_dd_bdb_tmpdir

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Operation procedures using aipmng (CUI)

# aipcontrol restorevolume <image path> <md dev path>

 

 


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