System Requirements
Windows computers that run Retrospect
- Intel Pentium class processor (1.5 GHz or more recommended)
- 512 MB RAM (1 GB or more recommended)
- Network backup requires TCP/IP networking
- Hard disk with 5 GB free
- Retrospect Multi Server, Single Server, and Disk-to-Disk: Windows NT 4.0 Workstation or Server (SP6 or greater); Windows 2000 Professional, Server, or Advanced Server (SP2 or greater); Windows Server 2003 Standard or Enterprise editions (32-bit and x64); Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Small Business Server 4.5, 2000, or 2003; Windows Storage Server 2003; Windows XP (32-bit and x64)
- Retrospect Small Business Server, Standard and Premium editions: Windows Small Business Server 2000 or 2003
Windows clients
- Windows XP (32-bit and x64)
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (SP6 or greater)
- Windows 95/98/98 SE/Me
- Windows Server 2003 Standard or Enterprise editions (32-bit and x64)
- Windows Server 2003 R2
- Windows Small Business Server 2000 or 2003
- Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server (SP2 or greater)
- Windows Storage Server 2003
- Windows NT 4.0 Server (SP6 or greater)*
Macintosh clients
- Mac® OS 7.1 or later, Mac OS X 10.1.5 or later
Linux clients
- Red Hat Linux 7.3, 8.x, 9.x; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4
- SUSE LINUX 8.0, 9.2, 9.3
- Novell Linux Desktop 9
Solaris clients
NetWare clients*
Supported backup devices
- SCSI/Fibre Channel/iSCSI/ATAPI/USB/IEEE 1394 tape drives, tape autoloaders, and tape library systems including AIT, DAT, DLT, LTO, Travan, and VXA (Disk-to-Disk edition does not back up to tape.)
- Local hard disks, remote servers, and NAS devices
- SCSI/ATAPI/USB/IEEE 1394 Writable CD/DVD drives
- Removable disks including REV, Zip, DVD-RAM, MO, and SuperDisk (LS-120)