EMC® Retrospect® for Windows

System Requirements

Retrospect 7.7 System Requirements

Windows computers that run Retrospect

Intel Pentium class processor or better (1.5 GHz or more recommended), including x86 and x64 hardware for 32-bit or 64-bit OS support
1 GB RAM (2 GB or more recommended)
Network backup requires TCP/IP networking
Hard disk with 10-15 GB free per concurrent activity

Retrospect Multi Server, Single Server, and Disk-to-Disk:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/2003/2003 R2
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008/2003/2000/4.5
Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008/2003/2003 R2
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP

Retrospect Small Business Server, Standard and Premium editions:

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008/2003/2000/4.5

Windows clients

Intel Pentium class processor or better (1.5 GHz recommended), including x86 and x64 hardware for 32-bit or 64-bit OS support
Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/2003/2003 R2, 2000 Server (SP2 or later)
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008/2003/2000/4.5*
Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008/2003/2003 R2*
Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 Professional

Macintosh clients

Mac OS X Server 10.3.9 or later*
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later

Linux clients

Red Hat Linux 7.3, 8.x, 9.x; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4
SUSE Linux 8.0, 9.2, 9.3

Solaris clients

Solaris 8, 9

NetWare clients*

NetWare 5.1, 6.0, 6.5

Supported backup devices

SCSI/Fibre Channel/iSCSI/ATAPI/SAS/USB/IEEE 1394 Tape drives and tape autoloader/library systems including AIT, DAT, DLT, LTO, Travan and VXA
Local hard disks, remote servers, NAS devices, and SAN devices
SCSI/ATAPI/USB/IEEE 1394 writable optical drives including CD, DVD, Blu-ray
Removable disks including REV, RDX, and GoVault

*Retrospect Single Server, Small Business Server, and Disk-to-Disk editions require the purchase of a server client license in order to back up a server client.

Retrospect Professional 7.7 System Requirements

Windows computers that run Retrospect

Intel Pentium class processor or better (1.5 GHz recommended), including x86 and x64 hardware for 32-bit or 64-bit OS support
512 MB RAM (1 GB or more recommended)
Hard disk with 5 GB free
Network backup requires TCP/IP networking
Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

Windows clients

Intel Pentium class processor or better, including x86 and x64 hardware for 32-bit or 64-bit OS support
Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional

Macintosh clients