Barracuda Networks recommends ensuring the latest hotfixes, patches, and updates are installed on your data sources.
Barracuda Backup follows the lifecycle policy of each supported vendor and does not support versions that are end of life or end of support as indicated by the product vendor.
Barracuda Backup provides support for the versions and platforms listed in the following tables.
Virtual Infrastructure
Type | Specification | Requirements |
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VMware | Platform | |
| Hypervisors | Free ESXi not supported. Barracuda Backup leverages vSphere and vStorage APIs which VMware has disabled in free ESXi. |
| Management Server | vCenter Server 8.x vCenter Server 7.x
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Microsoft Hyper-V | Platform | Windows Server 2025 Windows Server 2022 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2016
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| Hypervisors | Hyper-V Server 2022 Hyper-V Server 2019 Hyper-V Server 2016
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| Management Server (optional) | |
Guest Virtual Machines
Type | Specification | Requirements |
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VMware | Virtual Hardware | All types and versions of virtual hardware supported, including 62 TB VMDK. VMs with disks engaged in SCSI bus sharing are not supported, because VMware does not support snapshotting such VMs. RDM virtual disks in physical mode, independent disks, and disks connected via in-guest iSCSI initiator not supported and skipped from processing automatically. Network shares and mount points targeted to 3rd party storage devices are also skipped as these volumes/disks are not visible in the VM configuration file.
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| Operating Systems | |
| Software | VMware Tools (optional, recommended). VMware Tools required for the following operations: application-aware processing (quiesce). All latest OS service packs and patches (required for application-aware processing).
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Hyper-V | Virtual Hardware | Supported virtual hardware version 5.0 though 9.0 (Hyper-V 2019). Both Generation 1 and 2 VMs supported, including 64 TB VHDX disks. [For Microsoft Hyper-V 2016 Server VMs] Processing of VMs with pass-through virtual disks and disks connected via in-guest iSCSI initiator not supported. [For Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 server and earlier VMs] Pass-through virtual disks and disks connected via in-guest iSCSI initiator not supported and skipped from processing automatically.
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| Operating Systems | |
| Software | |
File-Level Restore from Guest Virtual Machines (LiveBrowse)
Virtual Disk Formats | Supported: VHD/VHDX Fixed VHD/VHDX Dynamic VMDK Thin VMDK ZeroedThick VMDK EagerZeroedThick
Unsupported: |
Partition/Volume Structures | Supported: Master Boot Record (MBR) Disks GUID Partition Table (GPT)
Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) Logical Disk Manager (LDM-4200) Volumes
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File Systems | Supported: NTFS FAT FAT32 ext2 ext3 ext4 XFS BTRFS ReiserFS
Unsupported: |
Windows Volumes | Supported: Unsupported: Spanned Striped Mirrored RAID 5 volumes
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Disk Sizes | Unsupported: Note: To mount the virtual disk for LiveBrowse recovery, you will need to ensure that there is sufficient free disk space on your backup appliance equal to the size of the disk being recovered from. |
VMware Virtual Machine (LiveBoot) Instant Recovery
VMware and Hyper-V Virtual Machine Cloud Recovery (Cloud LiveBoot)
Type | Operating System | Supported File Systems |
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VMware | Operating Systems | |
| File Systems | FAT FAT32 NTFS ext2 ext3 ext4 ReiserFS JFS XFS Btrfs
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| Other | |
Hyper-V | Operating Systems | |
| File Systems | FAT FAT32 NTFS ext2 ext3 ext4 ReiserFS JFS XFS Btrfs
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| Other | Both Generation 1 and 2 VMs supported. UEFI partitions not supported by Cloud LiveBoot. Maximum of 4 virtual disks per guest VM supported. Windows Dynamic Disk partitions supported by Cloud LiveBoot. Differencing disks (.avhd/.avhdx) configurations not supported by Cloud LiveBoot.
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