Self-Hosted Offline Server
What is an Offline Server setup?
A server hosted in an environment whose network requests bounds is strictly within the organizational network i.e. it cannot access the internet, (or) an air-gapped server qualifies to be an offline setup. A server in such an environment cannot reach out to public cloud services for any data transactions.
Zmanda Pro supports an Offline On-Premises deployment completely managed by your infrastructure, provided the basic pre-requisites to run the server are satisfied.
Supported Operating Systems
Zmanda Pro currently supports On-premises deployment for the following Linux Distributions:
RHEL 8 or above based distributions
Debian version 12 (bookworm) or above
System Requirements for On-Prem Zmanda Pro Server
Pre-requisites
Docker CE (v27.3.x onwards)
containerd.io
docker compose plugin (v2.29.x onwards)
unzip
Network configurations
DNS A name entries for the FQDNs configured to access the Zmanda Pro server UI
Example: Let's say you have setup your Zmanda Pro server listening on backup.zmanda.com
You will need to have DNS A records for the following domains in your organization's DNS manager service:
<ZMANDAPRO_SERVER_IP>
: IP address of the Zmanda Pro server host<ZMANDAPRO_SERVER_IP> backup.zmanda.com root-backup.zmanda.com
Where:
backup.zmanda.com - Access the dashboard and administer backups
root-backup.zmanda.com - Internal Zmanda Pro usage for patching upgrades
Alternatively, if you do not have an internal DNS Manager Server, you may modify the /etc/hosts
file of the client devices to access the Zmanda Pro Server.
Additional requirements:
An intermediate CA certificate which has to be trusted by all your client devices
For the FQDNs specified above, generate an HTTPS certificate signed by the intermediate CA for the configured domain
Example: Generate an HTTPS certificate for the domain backup.zmanda.com and add the Subject Alternative Name (SAN) as root-backup.zmanda.com to the same certificate
Required ports:
443: HTTPS traffic to the Zmanda Pro server
(Optional) 9001: HTTPS traffic to the Storagemanager service
Note: Client Devices should be able reach out to the Zmanda Pro Server machine
The Zmanda Pro Server Setup Package
Download the zmandasetup.zip package into your Linux system which matches our Supported Operating Systems
Unzip the setup package:
This will unpack all the configuration files required to run the Zmanda Pro server. The configurations are as follows:

Package Contents
setup.sh: The Zmanda Pro server installer
setup.conf: Default configurations to run the setup.sh
certs: Directory containing:
Self-signed CA certificate
HTTPS certificate
Respective keys
Note: It's highly recommended to use your own set of CA & HTTPS certificates
Dockerfile & docker-compose.yml: Docker service files for building and running the Zmanda Pro Server
docker-image: Contains required docker images for on-premises deployment
zmandapro-server-.tar will be patched for subsequent upgrades
Images are loaded locally, requiring no outbound requests
scripts: Automation scripts for client device installation
server.cfg: Custom Configurations for your Zmanda Pro Server
storagemanager.zip (OPTIONAL): The Zmanda Pro storagemanager service and its dependents
License Activator Information
What is a License Activator?
Running the setup.sh will prepare your environment to start the Zmanda Pro server. However, to administer backups and other operations you will need a License_Activator.
To activate your 'self-hosted offline' deployment, please contact the sales team at Conact a Zmanda Sales Representative.
Important notes:
The License Activator only activates one instance of a Zmanda Pro Server container.
For DR strategy or replica server setup, contact the Zmanda Sales Team for additional instances.
Running the License Activator
Requires an unlock key (shared by Zmanda Team over a secure protected channel)
Handles:
Zmanda Pro Server activation
Server upgrades
Patching custom configurations
The 'offline’
Zmanda Pro License Activator
will be generated on a per container_id basis shared over the same channel by the Zmanda Team.
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