System Requirements for Mac Computers

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: 600 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:

• 26 Tahoe
• 15 Sequoia
• 14 Sonoma
• 13 Ventura
• 12 Monterey
• 11 Big Sur

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 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.