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title: "System Requirements"
description: "The protected Mac computer must meet requirements listed in the table below. Backup can be performed to the following types of storage: On-premises or cloud-based object storage Local (internal) storage of the protected computer (not recommended)..."
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# System Requirements

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

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  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="width:200px;">
      <p>Specification</p>
    </th>
    <th>
      <p>Requirement</p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:200px;">
      <p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Hardware</span></p>
    </td>
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      <p>The protected Mac computer must meet the following hardware requirements:</p>
      <ul>
        <li class="Table_List">CPU: x64 or ARM Apple-branded hardware.</li>
        <li class="Table_List">Memory: 2 GB RAM or more. Memory consumption varies depending on the total amount of backed-up data.</li>
        <li class="Table_List">Disk Space: 600 MB free disk space for product installation.</li>
        <li class="Table_List">Network: 10 Mbps or faster network connection to a backup target.</li>
      </ul>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:200px;">
      <p><a name="OS" id="OS"/><span style="font-weight:bold;">OS</span></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Veeam Agent supports the following macOS versions:</p>
      <ul>
        <li>27 Golden Gate</li>
        <li>26 Tahoe</li>
        <li>15 Sequoia</li>
        <li>14 Sonoma</li>
        <li>13 Ventura</li>
        <li>12 Monterey</li>
        <li>11 Big Sur</li>
      </ul>
    </td>
  </tr>
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    <td style="width:200px;">
      <p><a name="filesystem" id="filesystem"/><span style="font-weight:bold;">File System</span></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Veeam Agent supports consistent data backup with snapshot for the APFS file system.</p>
      <p>The following file systems can be backed up in the <a href="backup_hiw.md#snapshotless">snapshot-less mode</a>:</p>
      <ul>
        <li class="Table_List">HFS+</li>
        <li class="Table_List">MS-DOS (FAT)</li>
        <li class="Table_List">exFAT</li>
        <li class="Table_List">NTFS</li>
        <li class="Table_List">FAT32</li>
        <li class="Table_List">SMB</li>
      </ul>
      <p>Consider the following:</p>
      <ul>
        <li class="Table_List">Software RAID is not supported.</li>
        <li style="margin-top:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; line-height:1.50; tabstops:none;">Backup of files from a cloud storage mounted under the <span class="T_Filenames">/Users/&lt;user_name&gt;/Library/CloudStorage/</span> directory is not supported.</li>
        <li class="Table_List">Total size of all file systems included in a file-level backup must not exceed 216 TiB.</li>
        <li class="Table_List">Size of a file in a backup must not exceed 16 TiB.</li>
        <li class="Table_List">Name of a file in a backup must not be larger than 254 bytes.</li>
      </ul>
      <p class="Table_List_Paragraph">Keep in mind that characters that you can use in the file name may be encoded in 2 bytes or more.</p>
      <ul>
        <li class="Table_List">Sparse files are not supported. Veeam Agent backs up and restores sparse files as regular files.</li>
      </ul>
      <ul>
        <li class="Table_List">Veeam Agent automatically excludes from backup the files that have the following extended attribute: <span class="T_Filenames">com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem</span>.</li>
      </ul>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

## 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 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 version 13.1 backup repository (including deduplication appliances)
- Veeam Cloud Connect 13.1 cloud 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] Backup repositories with enabled KMS encryption 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 computer, Veeam Backup & Replication server and other servers in the Veeam backup infrastructure must be resolvable into IPv4 or IPv6 addresses.