System requirements

The following table summarizes disk space and memory requirements for typical installation cases. The installation is performed with the default settings.

Components to be installed

Occupied disk space

Minimum memory consumption

Agent for Windows

850 MB

150 MB

Agent for Windows and one of the following agents:

  • Agent for SQL
  • Agent for Exchange

950 MB

170 MB

Agent for Windows and one of the following agents:

  • Agent for VMware (Windows)
  • Agent for Hyper-V

1170 MB

180 MB

Agent for Office 365

500 MB

170 MB

Agent for Linux

720 MB

130 MB

Agent for Mac

500 MB

150 MB

For on-premise deployments only

Management Server in Windows

1.7 GB

200 MB

Management Server in Linux

0.6 GB

200 MB

Management Server and Agent for Windows

2.4 GB

360 MB

Management Server and agents on a machine running Windows, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Active Directory Domain Services

3.35 GB

400 MB

Management Server and Agent for Linux

1.2 GB

340 MB

Storage Node and Agent for Windows

1.1 GB

330 MB

While backing up, an agent typically consumes about 350 MB of memory (measured during a 500-GB volume backup). The peak consumption may reach 2 GB, depending on the amount and type of data being processed.

Bootable media or a disk recovery with a reboot requires at least 1 GB of memory.

A management server with one registered machine consumes 200 MB of memory. Each of the newly registered machines adds about 2 MB. Thus, a server with 100 registered machines consumes approximately 400 MB above the operating system and running applications. The maximum number of registered machines is 900-1000. This limitation originates from the management server's embedded SQLite.

You can overcome this limitation by specifying an external Microsoft SQL Server instance during the management server installation. With an external SQL database, up to 8000 machines can be registered without significant performance degradation. The SQL Server will then consume about 8 GB of RAM. For better backup performance, we recommend managing the machines by groups, with approximately 100 machines in each.