System Requirements
Updated July 17, 2026
System Requirements
Hiberden runs on ordinary Windows machines. There is no server component and no hosted service: the app, your settings, and the catalog all live on the machine where you install it.
Operating system
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
That is the whole list. Hiberden is Windows-only today; Linux is on the roadmap.
WebView2 runtime
Hiberden's interface runs on Microsoft's WebView2 runtime. It comes preinstalled on almost all Windows 10 and 11 systems, so in practice there is nothing extra to install. If Hiberden fails to launch on an unusual system, contact support@hiberden.app.
No admin rights needed
The installer is per-user and needs no administrator rights. It is code-signed by Agave Information Solutions, LLC, so you can confirm what you are running before you run it. See Installing on Windows for the full walkthrough, including how to check the signature.
Disk space
We do not publish a fixed RAM or disk minimum, because the honest answer depends on what you archive. Two things use local disk:
- The catalog. A local SQLite database at
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Hiberden\catalog.db. It stores records about your archives, not the archives themselves, so it stays small relative to your data. - Staging. Every archive is written as a full TAR in a local temp directory before it goes to any destination. This applies to local disk and NAS archives, not just cloud and tape. Free space on the machine running Hiberden must cover the largest folder you archive, plus a little overhead, whatever the destination.
Long term, the archives live on the destinations you choose (local disk, NAS, cloud, tape), so plan ongoing storage capacity there. But because of the staging step, the machine running Hiberden always needs enough free space for the archive it is currently writing.
Tape drives and LTFS
Vendor LTFS software is required only if you connect a real LTO tape drive. On Windows the wired implementation is IBM's LTFS (Single Drive Edition): Hiberden auto-detects it in the standard install locations, and Settings > Tape lets you point at a custom path. LTFS is IBM software, not part of Hiberden. See Tape (LTO-9 / LTFS) for setup details.
No other destination (local disk, NAS, or cloud) needs any extra software.
Evaluating without hardware
The built-in virtual tape drive needs no extra software and no hardware. It runs a drive backed by a local folder so the whole tape workflow (write, span, verify, restore) works with nothing attached, and it does not require IBM's LTFS tooling. Combined with the free trial, you can evaluate the entire 3-2-1 workflow before buying an LTO drive.