System requirements

Backup agent version 5.0.1 and higher

  • Operating systems

    Windows Vista (x86) ,Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2008 (x86), Windows Server 2008R2, Windows Server 2011 SBS, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022.

  • Filesystem

    IDrive® BMR supports backup from only NTFS formatted volumes

  • Disk partition style

    MBR, GPT

Backup agent version 5 and higher

  • Operating systems

    Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022.

  • Filesystem

    IDrive® BMR supports backup from only NTFS formatted volumes

  • Disk partition style

    MBR, GPT

Backup agent version 4 and older

  • Operating systems

    Windows Vista (with all windows updates installed), Windows Server 2008 (with all windows updates installed), Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows 8, Small Business Server 2011.

  • Filesystem

    IDrive® BMR supports backup from only NTFS formatted volumes

  • Disk partition style

    MBR, GPT

Note:

  1. Backup and restore of dynamic (simple, mirrored, spanned, striped), logical, and Microsoft storage space (Raid-5 with resiliency type-parity) is supported for 8.4.0 and above. However, bare-metal recovery of dynamic OS disk with GPT partition is not supported.

    (In case you have upgraded to version 8.4.0 or above, make sure to install the latest backup agent that supports the latest backup features and perform at least one image backup. If you attempt restoring exclusively from older versions where the OS disk is dynamic, you may have OS boot issues. Similarly, use the updated WinRE Recovery Media Builder to create and upload a new WinRE recovery media to the BMR device.).
  2. The CBT feature (via backup agent version 4 and older) is not supported for certain older operating systems such as Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and the 32-bit version of both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2.