Troubleshooting
Problem
Hardware and software requirements for IBM Storage Protect Apple Macintosh backup-archive client and API
Resolving The Problem
Hardware and Software Requirements
This document is divided into linked sections. Use the following links to go to the section of the document that you require.
Note: IBM Storage Protect backup-archive client support for third-party operating systems, applications, services, and hardware depend on the respective vendor. If a third-party product or version moves into extended support, self-service support, or end-of-life, IBM Storage Protect backup-archive client supports the product or version at the same level as the vendor. See also IBM Support General Guidelines and Limitations - IBM support for software on unsupported operating systems
Note: The product now known as IBM Storage Protect was named IBM Spectrum Protect in levels earlier than 8.1.19. To learn more about the brand change, see IBM Spectrum Protect brand change to IBM Storage Protect.
Hardware | |
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System | Any 64-bit Intel-based Macintosh Apple silicon-based Macintosh, by using conversion mechanism Rosetta 2 (Beginning with 8.1.15) |
Disk Space | 500 MB disk space required to install the client. |
Memory |
No extra Random-Access Memory (RAM) is required for product installation. RAM requirements for running the product vary widely and depend on your environment, configuration, and tasks that you run. More RAM might be required to run the product. |
Software | |
Communication Protocol |
Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
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Operating system | Note: Apple changes their Macintosh security model and requires that any software, which is running on their operating systems, is signed and notarized by Apple. Due of these changes, the IBM storage Protect backup-archive client supports the following operating systems. The following operating systems are supported by IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client 8.1.10 and later:
If you are using the following operating systems, use IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client 8.1.9:
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File system | For supported file systems, see: File system and ACL support |
More software | |
The web backup-archive client use Java™:
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- Release 7.1 is past End of Support (EOS). See for Client 7.1:
- Release 6.4 is past End of Support (EOS). See for Client V6.4:
- Release 6.3 is past End of Support (EOS). See for Client V6.3:
- Release 6.2 is past End of Support (EOS). See for Client V6.2:
- Release 6.1 is past End of Support (EOS). See for Client V6.1:
Administrative | Backup-archive client | Space Management client | API client | |||
Command line interface | Graphical user interface | Command line interface | Web browser interface | Graphical user interface | Command line interface | Interface |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | -- | -- | ✔ |
Related Information
Product Synonym
IBM Spectrum Protect;
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Modified date:
13 June 2024
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