Tape Server
Specification | Requirement |
|---|---|
Hardware | CPU: x86-64 processor with 2 cores (vCPUs) minimum. Using multi-core processors improves data processing performance and allows for more tasks to be processed concurrently. Memory: 2 GB RAM plus 500MB for each concurrent task. Depending on the source of tape jobs, different entities are considered tasks: for machine backup to tape, a task covers a source job or a source chain if tape paralleling is enabled; for file backup to tape, a task covers an entire server or a file share. Restoring VMs directly from tape requires 400MB of RAM per 1TB of the restored virtual disk size. Tape cloning requires 1GB RAM for each concurrent task. Disk Space: 300 MB, plus 10 GB for temporary data storage for backup and restore operations. Network: 1 Gbps or faster. For system requirements for backup to tape jobs, see the Before You Begin section for backup to tape. For system requirements for large number of files in the file backup to tape job, see the Before You Begin section for file backup to tape. |
OS | 64-bit versions of the following Microsoft Windows operating systems are supported, including Core edition:
64-bit versions of the following Linux distributions are supported1:
1 Note that the tape server requires root access rights. For this reason, Veeam Software Appliance, Veeam Infrastructure Appliance and hardened repository cannot be used as the tape server. |
For more information, see the Tape Servers section.