EMC® Retrospect® for Macintosh Desktop Edition

System Requirements

Macintosh computers that run Retrospect

  • PowerPC or Intel processor
  • 128 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended) for Mac OS 9
  • 256 MB of RAM (512 recommended) for Mac OS X
  • Hard disk with at least 500 MB free
  • Network backup requires TCP/IP networking
  • Mac OS 9; Mac OS X 10.1.5 through Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard*

Macintosh clients

  • PowerPC or Intel processor
  • Mac OS 7.1 or later with Open Transport TCP/IP networking
  • Mac OS X 10.1.5 though Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (Retrospect Server for Macintosh is required to back up Mac OS X servers as clients)

Windows clients

  • Intel Pentium class processor
  • Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 95/98/98 SE/Me
  • Uses Windows built-in TCP/IP networking
  • Retrospect for Windows business editions are required to back up Windows server clients

Linux clients

  • Intel Pentium class processor
  • Red Hat Linux 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
  • TCP/IP networking

Supported backup devices

*Product CD contains Retrospect 6.1 for Mac OS X and Retrospect 5.1 for Mac OS 9.