System Requirements

The machine that you plan to protect with Veeam Agent for IBM AIX must meet requirements listed in the table below.

System Requirements
Specification	Requirement
Hardware	Memory: 1 GB RAM (for standard backup and restore operations) / 4 GB RAM (for bare metal recovery). Disk space: 1.5 GB free disk space for product installation. Network: 10 Mbps or faster network connection to a backup target.
OS	IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1 – 7.3 TL3 are supported. Note: IBM AIX 6.1 has experimental support status. For details about experimental support, see this Veeam KB article. Backup of a Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) is not supported. Only GA versions and updates of the IBM AIX OS that have been released before version 13.1 of Veeam Agent for IBM AIX are supported.
File System	All file systems supported by the supported operating systems. Consider the following: 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 TiB. 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. Sparse files are not supported. Veeam Agent backs up and restores sparse files as regular files. JFS2 snapshots are not supported. Backup of clustered systems (including IBM PowerHA SystemMirror) is not supported.
Software	The following utilities must be installed on the machine: mlocate — required for file system indexing. You must use the mlocate utility that is provided with Veeam Agent in the product installation media. tar — required for file system indexing, exporting and rotating logs. It is installed with the product. gzip — required for file system indexing, exporting and rotating logs. It must be installed separately. mkisofs — required for creating Veeam Recovery Media. [For IBM AIX 7.3, 7.2 and 7.1 TL1 or higher] This utility is pre-installed in the OS and does not require separate installation. [For IBM AIX 7.1 TL0 and 6.1] You must install version 1.13 of the mkisofs utility. [For IBM AIX 7.1] bos.rte.libc version 7.1.5.0 or later must be installed.

Backup Target

Backup can be performed to the following types of storage:

On-premises or cloud-based object storage.

Local (internal) storage of the protected machine (not recommended).
Direct attached storage (DAS), such as USB, eSATA or Firewire external drives.
Network Attached Storage (NAS) able to represent itself as NFS or SMB (CIFS) share.

Veeam Backup & Replication 13.1 backup repository.

Important

Consider the following about backup repositories:

[For local storage] A backup repository should be created on a separate volume from a volume that contains data you plan to back up.

[For Veeam backup repository] Veeam Cloud Connect repositories, repositories with enabled KMS encryption and object storage repositories managed by Veeam Backup & Replication are not supported.

Network

Consider the following:

Veeam Agent does not support Kerberos authentication.

If you back up to a repository managed by a Veeam backup server, Veeam Agent must be able to establish a direct IP connection to the Veeam Backup & Replication server. Veeam Agent cannot work with Veeam Backup & Replication that is located behind a NAT gateway.
Domain names of the Veeam Agent machine, Veeam Backup & Replication server and other servers in the Veeam backup infrastructure must be resolvable into IPv4 or IPv6 addresses.