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System Requirements

The protected Mac computer must meet requirements listed in the table below.

Specification	Requirement
Hardware	The protected Mac computer must meet the following hardware requirements: CPU: x64 or ARM Apple-branded hardware* Disk Space: 200 MB free disk space for product installation Network: 10 Mbps or faster network connection to a backup target * On a Mac computer with the ARM Apple-branded hardware, the product is running using the Rosetta Translation Environment.
OS	Veeam Agent supports the following macOS versions: Ventura 13.0 Monterey 12.0 – 12.6.X Big Sur 11.0 – 11.6.X Catalina 10.15.X Mojave 10.14.X High Sierra 10.13.6
File System	Veeam Agent supports consistent data backup with snapshot for the APFS file system. The following file systems can be backed up in the snapshot-less mode: HFS+ MS-DOS (FAT) exFAT NTFS FAT32 SMB Consider the following: Software RAID is not supported. Total size of all file systems included in a file-level backup must not exceed 218 TB. Size of a file in a backup must not exceed 16 TB. Name of a file in a backup must not be larger than 254 bytes. Keep in mind that characters that you can use in the file name may be encoded in 2 bytes or more.

Specification

Requirement

Hardware

The protected Mac computer must meet the following hardware requirements:

* On a Mac computer with the ARM Apple-branded hardware, the product is running using the Rosetta Translation Environment.

Veeam Agent supports the following macOS versions:

Veeam Agent supports consistent data backup with snapshot for the APFS file system.

The following file systems can be backed up in the snapshot-less mode:

Consider the following:

Software RAID is not supported.
Total size of all file systems included in a file-level backup must not exceed 218 TB.
Size of a file in a backup must not exceed 16 TB.
Name of a file in a backup must not be larger than 254 bytes.

Keep in mind that characters that you can use in the file name may be encoded in 2 bytes or more.

Backup Target

Backup can be performed to the following types of storage:

Local (internal) storage of the protected computer (not recommended).
Direct attached storage (DAS), such as USB, eSATA or Firewire external drives.
Network Attached Storage (NAS) able to represent itself as SMB (CIFS) share.
Veeam Backup & Replication 11 or later backup repository (including deduplication appliances).
Veeam Cloud Connect 11 or later cloud repository.

Network

Consider the following:

If you back up to a repository managed by a Veeam backup server, Veeam Agent for Mac must be able to establish a direct IP connection to the Veeam Backup & Replication server. Veeam Agent for Mac cannot work with Veeam Backup & Replication that is located behind a NAT gateway.
Domain names of the Veeam Agent for Mac computer, Veeam Backup & Replication server and other servers in the Veeam backup infrastructure must be resolvable into IPv4 addresses.