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 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:

  • 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.

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