Desktop and Laptop Edition

System Requirements

Operating System

Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Home
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (ME)
Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition

Processor

Required: Pentium processor
Recommended: Pentium III-500Mhz for more than 500 documents

Memory

Memory requirements mainly depend on the amount of files selected for backup.

Required: 128MB RAM above operating system and application requirements
Recommended: 256MB RAM above operating system and application requirements

Disk Space

Required: 50MB plus space for local cache.
Recommended: Amount of free space equal to the backup account limit. The local cache can be as large as the total size of all files selected for backup; a file selection of 100MB needs up to 100MB extra disk space for the cache.

Minimum Video Settings

800 x 600 Resolution, 256 colours

Other Hardware

Network interface card or a virtual network adapter card
CD-ROM drive or Internet access to download and install the software

Server Edition

System Requirements

Operating System

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft XP
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Windows NT4.0 (SP6)

Processor & Memory

Required: Pentium III processor with 256MB memory above operating requirements

Recommended: Processor and memory requirements increase with the amount of data protected by Server Edition:

Amount of data Protected
Recommended Processor
Recommended Memory

Less than 100GB
Pentium III 500MHz
512MB

200GB
P4 entry level
512MB

500GB
P4 2.0GHz
1GB

1TB
Dual Xeon 3GHz
2GB

Disk Space

Required: 50 MB plus space for local cache.

Recommended: Amount of free space equal to the backup account limit if Binary Patching is enabled. The space requirement for Delta Blocking is considerably less.

File Server: The local cache can be as large as the total size of all files selected for backup. A file selection of 10 GB needs up to 10 GB free space for the cache.
Database : Space is needed for the data dump, which can be as large as the database, as well space for the cache, which is compressed version of the database. Assuming 1:2 compression on a 10GB database you are recommended to have 15GB (10GB for the dump and 5GB for the cache) free space available.

Virtual Memory Recommendations

Double the amount of RAM, with a minimum of 512MB (Total for all disk volumes)

Minimum Video Settings

800 x 600 Resolution, 256 colours

Other Hardware

Network interface card or a virtual network adapter card
CD-ROM drive or Internet access to download and install the software

Server Edition

Novell NetWare v6 & v6.5
Red Hat Linux v.6 - v.9
Red Hat Fedora
Sun Solaris v5.9
SCO UNIX Open Server v5.0.6

To install the Backup Professional Server Edition Client, simply run the installation file. The Backup Client requires working space for the cache and temporary disk space for creating patches. Note: Please ensure that the drive where you install the Backup Client has enough free hard drive space to store a copy of the selected files.

For example, if you want to backup 1GB of data, there must be at least 1GB of free space available on the drive where you install the Backup Client. Note: Plug-ins may also require additional working space. Please consult the applicable plug-in documentation.