Requirements and Limitations

This section provides you with important information on deployment limitations and supported environments of different devices.

You may refer to the following sections to learn more details regarding different devices and deployment requirements.

Synology NAS Requirements and Limitations

For Active Backup for Business 2.1.0 and above versions, a Synology NAS running DSM 6.2 or above is required. For Active Backup for Business 2.0.4 and previous versions, a Synology NAS running DSM 6.1.7 or above is required. Active Backup for Business can only run on x64 Synology NAS servers with Btrfs file system. For backup performance, it is recommended to have at least 4G of RAM and not to set up the shared folder quota due to deduplication mechanism.

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Personal Computer Requirements and Limitations

Active Backup for Business supports backing up end-point devices running on Windows platform.

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Physical Server Requirements and Limitations

For backing up the physical server, Active Backup for Business supports Windows operating system.

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File Server Requirements and Limitations

For backing up the file server, Active Backup for Business supports the servers running with SMB (Windows) and rsync 3.0 or above (Linux) protocol. You may back up data to your Synology NAS using Active Backup for Business.

Virtual Machine Requirements and Limitations

This section provides you with important information on deployment limitations and supported virtual machine (VM) environments on VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.