Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 System Requirements

List of minimum and recommended hardware requirements and supported operating systems for Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console

Item	Minimum requirements	Recommended
Computer processor	Modern processor, 800 MHz or faster (!) Itanium Platforms Are Not Supported	1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
System memory	128 MB	512 MB or more
Screen resolution	800*600 pixels	1024*768 pixels or higher
Installation disk space	50 MB
Other hardware	Mouse
		Network interface card or a virtual network adapter
		CD-RW, DVD-RW, drive for bootable media creation

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Linux

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server

Item

Minimum requirements

Recommended

System memory

512 MB

1 GB or more

Installation disk space

25 MB

200 MB for Operational SQL Server and Reporting SQL Server

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node

Item	Minimum requirements	Recommended
System memory	512 MB	1.5 GB or more
Installation disk space	40 MB
Space required for tapes database	About 1 MB per 10 archives

Acronis License Server

Acronis Bootable Media

Item	Minimum requirements	Recommended
Computer processor	1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor (!) Itanium Platforms Are Not Supported	1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
System memory	512 MB	512 MB or more
Screen resolution	800*600 pixels	1024*768 pixels or higher
Other hardware	Mouse
		Network interface card or a virtual network adapter
		CD-RW, DVD-RW

(!) Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 requires free space on system partition, even if you install the product on a different partition. See Installation of Acronis Products in Windows Creates Temporary Files in %TMP% on System Partition.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server - ABR10 AS
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Windows (Standalone) - ABR10 SW
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Linux (Standalone) - ABR10 SL
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server - Small Business Server Edition - ABR10 AS SBS
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Workstation - ABR10 AW
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation (Standalone) - ABR10 W
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server - Virtual Edition - ABR10 AS VE
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online Backup - ABR10 OB

	ABR10 AS	ABR10 SW	ABR10 SL	ABR10 AS SBS	ABR10 AW	ABR10 W	ABR10 AS VE	ABR10 OB
Windows 2000 SP4+	YES	YES	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES	YES
Windows 2000 Server SP4+	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO	YES	YES
Windows XP Home x32	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	YES	NO	NO
Windows XP Professional x32/x64	YES	YES	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES	YES
Windows Vista Home x32/x64	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO	YES	NO	NO
Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, Ultimate x32/x64	YES	YES	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES	YES
Windows 7 Home x32/x64	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO	YES	NO	NO
Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate x32/x64	YES	YES	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES	YES
Windows Server 2003 x32/x64	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO	YES	YES
Windows Server 2003 SBS	YES	YES	NO	YES	NO	NO	YES	YES
Windows Server 2008 x32/x64	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO	YES	YES
Windows Server 2008 SBS	YES	YES	NO	YES	NO	NO	YES	YES
Windows Server 2008 R2	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO	YES	YES
Linux with kernel 2.4.20 or later - most distributions	YES	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO	YES	NO

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