For information on BMR device firmware version 8.0.0, click here

System requirements

Latest version of the backup agent

  • Operating systems

    Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2008R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2025.

  • Filesystem

    IDrive® BMR supports backups exclusively from NTFS-formatted volumes and provides limited backup support for ReFS-formatted volumes (versions 2.0 and above).

    • Note: Support for ReFS backups is available starting from version 5.1.0.
  • 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.
  3. The CBT feature may not function on certain NVMe configurations if the CBT drivers fail to load.