Troubleshooting
Problem
Hardware and software requirements for IBM Spectrum 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.
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| System | Any 64-bit Intel-based Macintosh Note: Apple silicon-based Macintosh, by using conversion mechanism Rosetta 2 is not supported. This web page will be updated with further details when support is available. |
| Disk Space | 500 MB disk space required to install the client. |
| Memory |
No extra Random-Access Memory (RAM) 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 |
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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, IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client supports 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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Tip: The product now known as IBM Spectrum Protect was named IBM Tivoli Storage Manager in releases earlier than 7.1.3. To learn more about the rebranding transition, see Tivoli Storage Manager branding transition to IBM Spectrum Protect.
Note: IBM Spectrum Protect and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 7.1 reached end of support (EOS) at 31 December 2021.
| Hardware | |
|---|---|
| System | Any 64-bit Intel-based Macintosh |
| Disk Space | 500 MB disk space required to install the client |
| Memory |
No extra Random-Access Memory (RAM) 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 |
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| Operating system |
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| File system | For supported file systems, see: File system and ACL support |
| More Software | |
For Java™ GUI:
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| The web client requires: Java plug-in that included in JRE 7 or JRE 8 | |
- Release 7.1 is past End of Support (EOS). See the V7.1 Client:
- Release 6.4 is past End of Support (EOS). See the V6.4 Client:
- Release 6.3 is past End of Support (EOS). See the V6.3 Client:
- Release 6.2 is past End of Support (EOS). See the V6.2 Client:
- Release 6.1 is past End of Support (EOS). See the V6.1 Client:
| Administrative | Backup-archive client | Space management client (HSM) | API client | |||
| Command line interface | Graphical user interface | Command line interface | Web browser interface | Graphical user interface | Command line interface | Interface |
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Related Information
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Document Information
Modified date:
07 December 2021
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swg21053584