EMC® Retrospect® for Macintosh

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, or Mac OS X Server 10.1.5 through Mac OS X Server 10.5 Leopard*

Macintosh clients

  • PowerPC or Intel processor
  • Mac OS 7.1 or later with Open Transport TCP/IP networking
  • Desktop and notebook clients: Mac OS X 10.1.5 though Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
  • Server clients (Retrospect Server edition is required to back up server clients): Mac OS X Server 10.1.5 through Mac OS X Server 10.5 Leopard

Windows clients

  • Intel Pentium class processor
  • Windows 95/98/98 SE/Me/NT Workstation/2000 Professional/XP
  • 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
  • Retrospect for Windows business editions are required to back up Linux server clients

Supported backup devices

  • SCSI/Fibre Channel/ATAPI/USB/FireWire tape drives and tape autoloaders including AIT, DAT, DLT, LTO, Travan, and VXA
  • Internal hard drives; FireWire and USB external hard drives
  • SCSI/ATAPI/USB/FireWire Writable CD/DVD drives including CD-R, CD-W, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
  • Removable disks including REV, Zip, DVD-RAM, MO, and SuperDisk (LS-120)
  • Search our storage device compatibility database for specific device support

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