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Before you install the NetWorker software, you should become aware of the default directory locations and space requirements for the binary files, the databases, and the log files on the target host.

Note

You can change these directory locations on all supported Linux operating systems except Debian and Ubuntu.

Package

Location

Client (lgtoclnt)

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/usr/lib
/usr/sbin
/usr/bin
/opt/nsr

Man pages (lgtoman)

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/usr/share

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  1. Log in to the target host and promote your account to super user.

  2. Verify the contents of /etc/hosts contains an entry for the IPv4 loopback address and the first entry is the hostname, i.e.:

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    27127.0.0.1 host host-alias host.subdomain.utoronto.ca localhost

  3. Fetch the installer from

    1. the VSS Users Storage with SCP or an equivalent SCP/SFTP client using the following settings:

      1. host: vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca

      2. VSS username and password.

    2. UTORrecover SharePoint site: https://utoronto.sharepoint.com/sites/its-eis-UTORrecover

  4. Navigate to /ut-vss-lib/networker/pubnix/networker/LINUX as shown below. Then download the right installer for your OS architecture.

If you are running the server on the ITS Private Cloud, you are likely to use

nw191002

nw191005_linux_x86_64 contents.

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sftp vskey$USER@vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca
(josem@vskey$USER@vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca) Password:
Connected to vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca.
sftp> cd /ut-vss-lib/networker/pub/networker/LINUXnix
sftp> ls -tlhr
-rw-r--r--    ? 3884
    20           1.2K Jun 19 13:49 RecoveryExample.txt
drwxr-xr-x    ? 0        0              5B Jul 10 12:18 nw191002nw191005_linux_x86_64

  1. Fetch nw191005_linux_x86

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  1. _64/lgto*.deb

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    sftp> get *.deb
Fetching /ut-vss-lib/networker/nix/nw191005_linux_x86_64/lgtoclnt_19.10.0.5_amd64.deb to lgtoclnt_19.10.0.5_amd64.deb
lgtoclnt_19.10.0.5_amd64.deb

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  1. Fetch nw191002_linux_x86_64/lgto*.deb

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Fetching /ut-vss-lib/networker/pub/networker/LINUX/nw191002nix/nw191005_linux_x86_64/lgtoclntlgtoman_19.10.0.25_amd64.deb to lgtoclntlgtoman_19.10.0.25_amd64.deb
lgtoclntlgtoman_19.10.0.25_amd64.deb                                                                                                                100%   42MB320KB  1132.3MB4MB/s   00:03
Fetching /ut-vss-lib/networker/pub/networker/LINUX/nw191002_linux_x86_64/lgtoman_19.10.0.2_amd64.deb to lgtoman_19.10.0.2_amd64.deb
lgtoman_19.10.0.2_amd64.deb00                                                                                                                   100%  320KB   2.4MB/s   00:00

  2. Install lgtoclnt by running to install the operating system packages that the NetWorker client software requires:

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    apt install ./lgtoclnt_19.10.0.25_amd64.deb

  3. (Optional) Install the NetWorker client man pages with the following command:

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    apt install ./lgtoman_19.10.0.25_amd64.deb

  4. Before starting the networker service, make sure you have populated the UTORrecover NetWorker servers in /nsr/res/servers.

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