Database servers supported:

SQL Virtual Restore is supported for the following versions of Microsoft SQL Server: 2000 (SP 3 or later), 2005, 2008 and 2008 R2:

• 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 Virtual Restore 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:

• 512 MB RAM

Supported backup types

Full, differential and transaction log backups created with native SQL Server, SQL Backup Pro (version 6.xx), and SQL HyperBac are all supported by SQL Virtual Restore. If you would like to use SQL Virtual Restore with encrypted SQL Backup Pro backups, please decrypt them first. Decryption for all other backup types is supported.