System Requirements for Mac Computers

A computer that you want to protect with Veeam Agent for Mac must meet the following requirements:

Specification	Requirement
Hardware	The protected macOS computer must meet the following hardware requirements: CPU: x64 or ARM Apple-branded hardware1. Memory: 2 GB RAM or more. Memory consumption varies depending on the total amount of backed-up data. Disk Space: 450 MB free disk space for product installation. Network: 10 Mbps or faster network connection to a backup target. 1 On a macOS computer with the ARM Apple-branded hardware, the product is running using the Rosetta Translation Environment.
OS	Veeam Agent supports the following macOS versions: 15 Sequoia2 14 Sonoma2 13 Ventura 12 Monterey 11 Big Sur 10.15 Catalina 10.14 Mojave 10.13.6 High Sierra 2 MacOS 15 Sequoia is supported starting from version 2.3, macOS 14 Sonoma is supported starting from version 2.1.
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: Sortware RAID is not supported. Total size of all file systems included in a backup must not exceed 216 TiB. 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.

Specification

Requirement

Hardware

The protected macOS computer must meet the following hardware requirements:

CPU: x64 or ARM Apple-branded hardware1.
Memory: 2 GB RAM or more. Memory consumption varies depending on the total amount of backed-up data.
Disk Space: 450 MB free disk space for product installation.
Network: 10 Mbps or faster network connection to a backup target.

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

Veeam Agent supports the following macOS versions:

2 MacOS 15 Sequoia is supported starting from version 2.3, macOS 14 Sonoma is supported starting from version 2.1.

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:

Consider the following:

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