Dantz Dev. RETROSPECT 6.1 SERVER MAC ( GU10A600000 )

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Product Features

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001GDEH4
• Item model number: GU10A600000
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 29, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #27,772 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

Product Description

Product Description

Designed for use in small and midsize businesses, Retrospect Server runs on a server running Mac OS X (10.1.5 through 10.3) and backs up as many as 100 networked clients, including Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, and Red Hat Linux desktops and notebooks as well as servers running Mac OS X Server (10.1.5 through 10.3). Retrospect Server can be expanded with additional client licenses. It utilizes proven automated technology to provide easy administration, complete protection for networked computers, and fast backups with 100% accurate restores.

Main Features

Manufacturer: EMC Dantz

Manufacturer Part Number: GU10A600000

Manufacturer Website Address: www.dantz.com

Software Sub Type: Backup & Recovery

Software Name: Retrospect v.6.0 Server - Complete Product

Features & Benefits: Protect Your Entire Network:

Retrospect provides automated protection for servers containing as much as 1,000 terabytes of data or more, as well as networked desktops and notebooks, which can contain 40-to-80 percent of a business's critical data

It protects user data, operating system files and settings, as well as applications and their settings

Get Fast Backups and Avoid Flawed Restores:

Only Retrospect performs the fastest backups while avoiding flawed restores. Most businesses use incremental or differential backups to save time

Self-Adjusting Backup Operations:

Retrospect eliminates the need to write customized backup scripts each day because it automatically adjusts backup operations to capture data that was not backed up as a result of time constraints, network problems, or computers that were unavailable

Easiest Onsite/Offsite Tape Rotation:

Retrospect stores and tracks data in Backup Sets. With just two Backup Sets, you can easily and quickly implement an onsite/offsite backup strategy by alternat

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 stars Retrospect: once great product goes sour, May 17, 2007

By	Olympus Rival (The Meadowlands, NJ) - See all my reviews

I've been using retrospect on macs since the mid-nineties. While computers have advanced a great deal since then, retrospect software has not. It is a bloated mess of outdated graphics and inefficient algorithms. I use this software because it is the only thing I've found which will run unattended backups on a mixed network of Mac, Windows, and Linux computers. This is no small feat and I give Dantz/EMC credit for that. They lose the credit, however, because while it's been how many years since OSX has been released, retrospect still doesn't run native. It's just a Carbon version of the system 9 software. This means that you always have to have the finder open on your server to run retrospect and it can't take advantage of any of the features of a unix based OS like OSX. It's also a processor hog; doing a simple backup, slows my dual processor tiger server down to a crawl. Clicking the wrong button while using the clunky interface can mean spending the next fifteen minutes watching the old capstans turn (their version of the spinning beachball). There's gotta be a better way.