Below are the technical requirements for SQL Backup. If you have any questions regarding technical specifications, please contact us.

The graphical user interface requires .NET version 2 or later.

Database servers supported:

SQL Backup is supported for the following versions of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 (SP 3 or later), and SQL Server 2008:

• Developer Edition (32-bit)
• Standard Edition (32-bit)
• Enterprise Edition (32-bit)
• Enterprise Edition x64 (64-bit)
• Enterprise Edition IA64 (64-bit)
• Standard Edition x64 (64-bit)
• Standard Edition IA64 (64-bit)

Operating systems supported:

SQL Backup is supported on the following Microsoft Windows operating systems:

• Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4
• Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server Service Pack 4
• Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2
• Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition:
  
  For 32-bit versions of Windows, Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 are supported but not required.
  
  For 64-bit versions of Windows, Service Pack 1 is required. You must install this separately for Itanium; for x64 it is installed automatically. Service Pack 2 is supported but not required.
• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows 7

Operating system requirements:

• MDAC
• 512 MB RAM
• 100 MB hard disk space

Runs on a server (or on a user's PC) running SQL Server.

Platform support for x86 64-bit and x86 32-bit:

If you run 32-bit and 64-bit machines, read more about the platform support offered by the four main parts to SQL Backup’s architecture.

If you are an existing SQL Backup 5 (or earlier) customer and would like more information about upgrading to SQL Backup 6, please read Upgrading from SQL Backup 4 or 5.