R1Soft continuous data protection is a close to continuous backup utility for home windows and Linux computer systems, grew by R1Soft. The product gives client planned close to continuous disk-based totally on line backups for one or extra windows or Linux servers. whenever a user/admin scheduled backup is done, Delta encoding deltas are transmitted to a backup vault successfully making a virtual Disk picture. Ceaseless Data Protection can restore already caught circle pictures(Disk-Image) to another Disk successfully imitating the structure and substance to another Disk. Individual documents within a Disk image can be restored to their unique area or a substitute computer system.
R1Soft peripheral (bypass) the filesystem and reads statistics at once from the disk. Block degree backup provides blessings over opportunity strategies such as the rate of backups and a reduction in I/O allowing you to carry out backups with out overall performance penalty.
R1Soft allows system admin/user to retrieve big file systems or whole servers fast with the Bare-Metal Restore attribute. You can likewise run granular record restores and a single tick VM restores and additionally restore backup even while a backup process is running.
You can specify a replication score (for instance, every 10 minutes) as well as how many recovery element to hold at any one time. Old recovery element are mechanically integrated and their storage is recycled with efficiency preventing wasted space.
R1Soft Continuous Data Protection is provides the facility to copy backup data over a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol network and can store it on disk using at least two servers:
R1Soft generally supports NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, Linux Swap etc… file system.
CDP Agent
a daemon backup agent that is required a good way to make backups of a system or restore files to it. The agent is mounted on windows or Linux computers and receive backup or restore requests from the CDP Server.
CDP Server a daemon that generate backup requests, stores backup facts on disk, and offers a graphical web user interface
CDP Enterprise Edition 3.0 of R1Soft can best save as much as sixty four TBs of backup facts in line with included disk or quantity
[root@linuxpcfix~]# vi r1soft.repo
[r1soft]
name=R1Soft Repository
Server baseurl=http://repo.r1soft.com/yum/stable/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
Now Install CDP Enterprises Edition
and run the following command to install enterprises cdp agent.
Once complete, you can use the help command to list all available options
Manual Installtion.
[root@linuxpcfix~]# cd cdp
[root@linuxpcfix~]# unzip r1soft-enterpriseedition-linux64-3.xx.xx.zip
After extract he zip archive you will found two directory such as .deb and .rpm if you have RHEL/Centos system then use .rpm packages otherwize use .deb package for ubutntu and debian.
Each directory have the following contents.
r1soft-cdp-enterprise-edition
r1soft-setup
r1soft-cdp-agent
r1soft-cdp-server
You have install all of them so use the following command on RHEL/Centos system.
Configure Web-based User Interface on CDP Server
Configure Port.
By default, CDP Enterprise Edition Web-based Interface listen on TCP ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS). These ports are infrequently already used by Apache, Nginx on your Linux server. So you will need to setup different ports.
[root@linuxpcfix~]# /etc/init.d/cdp-server restart
Now access web interface
http://server-ip-address:8080
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