R1Soft is an affordable, easy-to-use, high performance backup, restore, and disaster recovery software. Its a software application which is used to backup the data in a client (R1Soft agent) which is assigned to R1Soft server based upon the configurations which we define. R1soft can also be used to restore files and databases. You can install the Latest R1soft cdp agent on Linux server by using following steps.

Step No. 1 : Create the yum repository for the r1soft by using the following command

/etc/yum.repos.d/r1soft.repo
[r1soft]
name=R1Soft Repository Server
baseurl=http://repo.r1soft.com/yum/stable/\$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Step No. 2 : Install the cdp agent by using following command line

yum install r1soft-cdp-enterprise-agent

Step No. 3 : Then, install the header kernels by using following command line

yum install kernel-devel

Step No. 4 : Obtain the kernel module from R1Soft  by using following command line

r1soft-setup –get-module

Step No. 5 : To Setup the authentication key for the Agent on client server

serverbackup-setup –get-key http://cdpserverip

Kernel module is now installed.

Now, Use the following command line and load the new driver.

/etc/init.d/cdp-agent restart 

That’s it!

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