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(tick) Prerequisites

(blue star) Default Directory Locations

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.

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

Package

Location

Client (lgtoclnt)

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

Man pages (lgtoman)

/usr/share

\uD83D\uDCD8 Instructions

  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.: 

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

  3. Fetch the installer from 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.

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

If you are running on the ITS Private Cloud, you are likely to use nw191005_linux_x86_64 contents.

sftp $USER@vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca
($USER@vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca) Password:
Connected to vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca.
sftp> cd /ut-vss-lib/networker/nix
sftp> ls -tlhr
drwxr-xr-x    ? 0        0              5B Jul 10 12:18 nw191005_linux_x86_64

  1. Fetch nw191005_linux_x86_64/lgto*.deb 

    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                                                                                           100%   43MB  51.4MB/s   00:00
Fetching /ut-vss-lib/networker/nix/nw191005_linux_x86_64/lgtoman_19.10.0.5_amd64.deb to lgtoman_19.10.0.5_amd64.deb
lgtoman_19.10.0.5_amd64.deb                                                                                            100%  320KB  32.4MB/s   00:00                                                                                                               100%  320KB   2.4MB/s   00:00

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

    apt install ./lgtoclnt_19.10.0.5_amd64.deb

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

    apt install ./lgtoman_19.10.0.5_amd64.deb

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

The /nsr/res/servers file contains a list of trusted NetWorker Servers. Review the list or download servers file via the UTORrecover Portal (https://backups.eis.utoronto.ca) (UTORid required).

  1. Start the networker client process with: 

    systemctl enable --now networker

  2. Check the status with: 

    systemctl status networker

  3. Submit a request to backups@eis.utoronto.ca to with the following data:

    1. Hostname: hostname command.

    2. Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)

    3. IP Address.

    4. Path(s) to Protect. i.e. /etc, /var, /home

  4. Submit an echo request by following this link How-to check NetWorker client connectivity for UTORrecover.

  5. The echo request result should be marked as Processed to be successful.

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