System Requirements

Hardware

Operating System

In the environment where a user account control feature is enabled on desktop OS or other OS, you will get a message prompting you to allow execution of the program. If you encounter this case, please press [Allow] and proceed with the wizard operation.

Server Edition/Desktop Edition

Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server IoT 2019 / 2022 for Storage
Windows Storage Server 2016
Windows Storage Server 2012 R2
Windows 10 1803 (x64) or later Windows Desktop OS, including Windows 11

Virtual Edition

Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server IoT 2019 / 2022 for Storage
Windows Storage Server 2016
Windows Storage Server 2012 R2
Windows 10 1803 (x64) or later Windows Desktop OS, including Windows 11

Installation of Virtual Edition using Guest key supports virtual machine on Hyper-V or VMware vSphere only.

Cluster Edition

Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Storage Server 2016
Windows Storage Server 2012 R2

Cluster Edition can be installed on a computer on which failover clustering feature is configured.

Cloud Edition

Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows 10 1803 (x64) or later Windows Desktop OS, including Windows 11

Cloud Edition can be installed on virtual machines on public cloud.

IT Pro

Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server IoT 2019 / 2022 for Storage
Windows Storage Server 2016
Windows Storage Server 2012 R2
Windows 10 1803 (x64) or later Windows Desktop OS, including Windows 11.

32-bit OS is not supported.

Backup or restore of Linux machine is not supported.

File System

Hot Imaging Backup

FAT16, FAT16X, FAT32, FAT32X, NTFS, ReFS, CSVFS

The above listed file systems on MBR and GPT disks are supported.

The above listed file systems on storage spaces configured on Windows 8 or later OS are supported.

ReZooming a virtual machine created in ReFS is not supported.

Cold Imaging in RescueBoot, Boot Environment (Windows RE/PE)

FAT16, FAT16X, FAT32, FAT32X, NTFS, ReFS, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, Linux Ext4, Linux Swap

File system on Storage Space and ReFS are supported only if the boot environment is created by using Windows ADK that supports the file system.

Actiphy Boot Environment Builder supports building Boot Environment.

Cold Imaging in Boot Environment (Linux)

FAT16, FAT16X, FAT32, FAT32X, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, Linux Ext4, Linux Swap, Linux LVM, XFS, VMFS5 (Smart Sector backup for 2TB or less), VMFS6 (Full Sector backup only)

Actiphy Boot Environment Builder supports building Linux-based Boot Environment.

Conditions for Use of Features

For more detailed information or the editions supporting the respective features, please refer to the Readme or the product’s Help.

Building RescueBoot/QuickRecovery

Windows 10 1803 (x64) or later Windows Desktop OS, Windows Server 2016 or later Windows Server OS

Inline Deduplication Compression

De-duplication requires at least 1% free space of the total volume size on the backup source, in addition to the backup image file space.

HyperBack/HyperRestore

Windows 10 1803 (x64) or later Windows Desktop OS, Windows Server 2012 R2 or later Windows Server OS

In the environment such as desktop OS, etc., and user account control feature is enabled, you may be requested to allow running the program. When requested, please click [Allow] and proceed with further steps according to the instructions of wizard.

Supported hypervisors
The supported guest virtual machines

Windows OS and Linux distributions

After restoring Linux system on uEFI boot system, you need to create a boot entry by using CentOS LiveCD. For further details, please access here.

HyperStandby (target virtual platform)

Virtual Conversion

Target virtual platform for conversion to virtual machine
Virtualization Adapter

Windows 10 or later Windows Desktop OS, Windows Server 2016 or later Windows Server OS

vStandby (target virtual platform)

BootCheck (supported hypervisor)

Others