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System Requirements

Operating system

 
Windows Windows 8.1 - 32- & 64-bit
Windows 10 - 32- & 64-bit
Windows Server 2012 (incl. R2) - 64-bit only
Windows Server 2016 Standard
Windows Server 2019 Standard
Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina
  macOS 11 Big Sur
Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - 32- & 64-bit (via a Debian installer)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit (via a Debian installer)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit (via a Debian installer)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 - 64-bit (via an RPM installer)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 - 64-bit
CentOS 7 - 32- & 64-bit
CentOS 8 - 64-bit
SUSE 12 & SUSE 15
openSUSE Leap 15.2
Database   Not applicable
Processor Windows Minimum: 1.4 GHz (x86 or x64)
Recommended: 2 GHz or faster (with AES-NI support for optimal performance)
Mac Not applicable
Linux Minimum: 1.4 GHz (x64)
Recommended: 2 GHz or faster (with AES-NI support for optimal performance)
Memory   Required:
Agent service: 512 MB
Agent GUI: 1 GB
(in addition to OS requirements)
Hard disk space and configuration   Required: 150 MB per 1 million files per backup 
Recommended: 300 MB per 1 million files per backup. The amount of backup information kept on the Agent depends on the roll-up schedule configured on the Storage Platform.

Note: We recommend disabling Windows' volume-level deduplication and compression.
Other Application integration

Full System Backup:
Windows operating systems supported by ESE
Windows Image Backup:
Windows Server Backup (WSB) same as OS version
System state backup and restore:
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) same as OS version
MS SQL (through VSS):
- 2012 (incl. R2)
- 2014 (Express)
- 2016 (Express)
Exchange (through VSS):
- 2010
- 2013
- 2016
Hyper-V
Backup and restore on Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V
Education Software Solutions (ESS) - formerly Capita
SIMS, FMS, Discover

Account edition Only Accounts created by an ESE Agent, or SE Accounts converted to ESE
Runtime Java 11.0.3 (distributed with the Agent)
.NET 4.8.1 or later 
Network Not applicable