<table class="body_main_table"> <tr> <td class="body_content" colspan="3"> <table width="100%" class="blue" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td class="blue" colspan="2" align="right" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bluefed" colspan="2"> 01 - Sign in</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr><tr><td> <br></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><p>In the top menu, find "Sign in" to sign into your account.</p></td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img width="450" src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/1.png" align="bottom" alt="Login to website to download Nordic Backup" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td height="25" colspan="2" ></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><p>Sign in to your Nordic Backup account with your user name and password. Click OK.</p></td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/2.png" align="bottom" alt="Login to website to download Nordic Backup Pro" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25" colspan="2" ></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bluefed" colspan="2"> 02 - Downloading Nordic Backup</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td height="1" ></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr><tr><td> <br></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><p> Click on "Install Nordic Backup” to open the download page where you can download Nordic Backup for various operating systems.</p> </td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img width="450" src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/3.png" align="bottom" alt="Click to go to download page" /> </td>  </tr> </table> <p class="guide-break" ></p>  <table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table>  <table width="100%" class="blue" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td height="0" ></td> </tr> <tr>  <td valign="top" align="left"><p> Click on the operating system list, and select Linux / Unix and the download link will appear.</p></td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img width="450" src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/4.png" align="bottom" alt="Select for your operating system" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td height="25" colspan="2" ></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><p>Left-click on the link to download it to your system, or you can right-click it to be given the option to copy the URL to your clipboard.</p></td> <td valign="top" align="left"><img src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/5.png" alt="guide screenshot" title="Download Nordic Backup or copy the download URL from this screen" border="0"/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <table class="body_content" width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td height="25" colspan="2" ></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="body_content" valign="top" align="left"><p>With nordic_backup.tar.gz downloaded, use a SSH or FTP file transfer program to copy the file to your Linux server.<br><br>If you still have the download URL copied in your clipboard, you can open a terminal session to your server and download the file using the program <i>wget</i> which is commonly included on most systems. </p></td> <td valign="top" align="left"><img width="500" src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/6.png" alt="guide screenshot" title="Downloading Nordic Backup with wget" border="0"/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25" colspan="2" ></td> </tr>  <td height="25" colspan="2" ></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bluefed" colspan="2"> 03 - Installing Nordic Backup</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr><tr><td> <br></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><p>The Nordic Backup program directory will be in <code><b>/usr/local/obm</b></code>, so we must first create this directory with the <i>mkdir</i> command<br><code><b>mkdir /usr/local/obm</b></code> </p></td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img width="500" src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/7.png" alt="guide screenshot" title="Before installation, first create the install directory, /usr/local/obm" border="0"/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25" colspan="2" ></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><br><p> Now we must extract the tar archive for installation. If you haven't already, <i>cd</i> into the directory containing nordic_backup.tar.gz. <br> <br>Use the command <br><code><b>tar xvfz nordic_backup.tar.gz -C /usr/local/obm</b></code><br> to extract the files directly into the program folder we created.</td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img width="500" src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/8.png" alt="guide screenshot" title="tar command for extracting data into the install directory" border="0"/> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="guide-break" ></p> <table width="100%" class="blue" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td height="0" ></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><p>With all the files extracted, we can now run the installation.</p> <br/> <br/>Run <code><b>sh /usr/local/obm/bin/install.sh</b></code> to install Nordic Backup.<br> The output will show startup scripts were created for the scheduler and AutoUpdate services and that services were started.</td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img width="500" src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/9.png" alt="guide screenshot" title="Successful output of the installation script" border="0"/> </td> </tr>  <tr> <td class="bluefed" colspan="2"> 04 - Connecting with Nordic Backup</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td height="1" ></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr><tr><td> <br></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><p>With Nordic Backup installed, now we run the Configurator to connect your client to the backup server. <br/> run <b>sh /usr/local/obm/bin/Configurator.sh</b> to bring up the Configurator. <br><br> For this section, you will need to reference your Welcome to Nordic Backup email which contains your account's login and connection information. <br/> First, the Configurator prompts you for your login name which you must enter in ALL CAPS, and then your case-sensitive password. <br/>Then you must enter your backup server address, which is provided in your Welcome email. In this example, the server is <br><b>backup002.c3.nordic-backup.com</b> but may be different for you. <br>To choose a connection protocol, you will then enter <b>1</b> for HTTP or <b>2</b> to connect over HTTPS. Nordic Backup recommends HTTPS. <br>If you use a proxy server to connect to the Internet, you will have the option to configure that in the next step, otherwise enter <b>n</b> to not use a proxy. <br>Upon a successful connection, the Configurator will return that the account was found on your server and a new configuration file has been created. </td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img width="500" src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/10.png" alt="guide screenshot" title="run Configurator.sh and provide your account information" border="0"/> </p></td> </tr> </table> <p class="guide-break" ></p> <table width="100%" class="blue" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td height="0" ></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><p>If any backup sets already exist on your account, the Configurator will ask if any of them should be run from this computer. Unless you already made a backup set specifically for this system, your answer should be <b>n</b> for all backup sets, like shown.  After this, you will be taken to the main menu where you can review or change any information you provided to the Configurator, or you can exit with option <b>8</b>. This concludes successful use of the Configurator. <br/>  </td><td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img width="500" src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/11.png" alt="guide screenshot" title="Use option 8 to exit the Configurator script" border="0"/> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bluefed" colspan="2"> 05 - Managing Backup Sets on Linux</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr><tr><td> <br></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><p>If you use an X window system, you can access your Nordic Backup account and configure your backups from our simple and familiar GUI client by running <b>sh /usr/local/obm/bin/RunOBC.sh</b>, like shown. <br><br>From here, all the familiar backup types and settings will be available. For more information on these settings, see our <a href="/guides/how-to-optimize-backup-settings-in-nordic-backup-pro/" target="_blank">Backup Settings</a> guide. </td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img width="500" src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/12.png" alt="guide screenshot" title="Nordic Backup as it appears in a supported X window environment." border="0"/> </td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> <table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td height="25" colspan="2" ></td> </tr> <tr>  <td valign="top" align="left"><br><p> Most Linux systems, particularly servers, have not installed a desktop environment, so you will need to create your backup sets from our web interface by using the <a href="/sign-in/" target="_blank">Sign In</a> page and going to "Manage Backup Data," like shown. </td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img width="500" src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/13.png" alt="guide screenshot" title="Click Manage Backup Data from the customer landing page." border="0"/> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="guide-break" ></p> <table width="100%" class="blue" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td height="0" ></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><p>Here, all the backup sets that exist on your account will be shown. You can add, remove, or modify your backups from this interface. <br><br>Click on the Backup Set tab to be taken to your backup set editor.</p> </td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/14.png" alt="guide screenshot" title="Go to the Backup Set tab on the web interface to manage and modify or create new backup sets" border="0"/> </td> </tr> <tr><td> <br></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><p>From the top of the Backup Set screen, click the "Add" button to create a backup set.</p> </td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img style="padding-left:7px;" src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/15.png" alt="guide screenshot" title="Use the Add button to create a new backup set from the web interface" border="0"/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><p>Choose the type of backup set you want to create. On Linux, file backups, MySQL, Lotus Domino\Notes, Oracle, and VMware are supported.</p> </td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img width="500" src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/16.png" alt="guide screenshot" title="select your backup set type from the available options to create a new backup set" border="0"/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"> <br><br>  </td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><p>Using the example, configure the required fields according to your needs. <br><br>The first required field is backup source, which is where you put the path to your files, folders, databases, or virtual machines.<br><br> Then you configure a schedule, and a schedule hostname. Your hostname is determined by the output of the <b>hostname</b> command on your system. <br><br>The third required field is the Temporary directory which is required to cache, compress, and encrypt the backup data. <br><br>And lastly, configure a retention policy to retain previous versions of modified and deleted files for an appropriate amount of time. <br><br>Other options are available for configuration, such as Local Copy, compression and transfer block size, but the fields in the example are all the fields required for the backup to run according to the configured schedule. </td> <td class="img-td" valign="top" align="left"><img width="500" src="/wp-content/userguides/setup621/linuxguide/17.png" alt="guide screenshot" title="A typical file backup configuration for a web server" border="0"/> </td> </tr> <tr><td> <br> <br> <br></td></tr> <tr> <td class="bluefed" colspan="2"> Installation Troubleshooting</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"> <table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr><tr><td> <br></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" align="left" colspan="3"><p>The most common issue with the installation script is that it cannot find a compatible Java runtime environment (JRE) on the system.<br><br>This could be due to a number of reasons. Maybe you installed a bare bones distribution that didn't include a JRE. Or maybe the installation found a JRE below the required version 1.6. <br><br> Whatever the case, you can satisfy Nordic Backup install dependencies by locating a compatible and up-to-date JRE for your CPU architecture on the <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html" target="_blank">Java download</a> site. If you are running OpenBSD or FreeBSD, then OpenJDK is said to give better results. <br><br>Similar to the steps with the Nordic Backup download file, download the JRE tar file for your system, copy it to your linux machine, and extract the data to <b>/usr/java</b> with the <b>tar</b> command. <br><br>Be aware of the directory names that contain the extracted JRE files, as they are version-specific. For example, on a 32-bit server, the latest JRE may be called jre-8u25-linux-i586. For a 64-bit x64 server, it would say "x64" instead of "i586." <br><br> With the JRE data extracted, examine the directory structure of <b>/usr/java</b> for your version and find the <b>bin</b> folder, note its path, and run this command replaced with your <b>bin</b> folder's path: <b>ln -s /usr/java/jre1.8.0_25/bin /usr/local/obm/jvm/bin</b><br><br> In other words, the <b>/obm/jvm/bin</b> folder is now linked into the bin folder of a compatible JRE, and the install.sh script can proceed.</p> </td>  </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr></table>

How to install Nordic Backup on Linux / Unix