Retrospect 8.0 Desktop 3U Mac Mac 8.0

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Product Features

• EMC Retrospect provides you with an easy-to-use application that automates the backup process for networked computers in small office/home offices, small and midsize businesses, branch offices, and departments in large organizations
• Works in a mixed Macintosh/ Windows environment
• EMC Retrospect provides enterprise-level features and performance that small and midsize businesses need, without requiring dedicated IT staff to manage backup and recovery
• Retrospect saves a complete point-in-time file listing with every backup, and then verifies the data copied during the backup process, ensuring an accurate restore every time
• Retrospect Desktop 3-User protects a single Mac desktop or notebook, or a small network of Mac, Windows, and Linux desktops and notebooks

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0021P9FHQ
• Item model number: BZ10A8000
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 27, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,249 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

Product Description

Product Description

EMC Insignia Retrospect Desktop v.8.0 License - 3 User - Mac

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy Retrospect 8.1, July 20, 2009

By	D. Wenger (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased Retrospect 8.1 for my MacBOok Pro. 8.1 is a newer version than the listed 8.0 I have been a long time user of Retrospect 6, the earlier version of this backup software. The new version 8.1 is not ready for public use. With my many years of software evaluation, testing and design, I find this new product from EMC to be the least ready for public use. Too many bugs. You will be spending your time attempting to due what QA people should have done prior to the release of this product.
Be aware! I only want to warn people. I hope that this product will be made ready for public use. At that time I will even spend more money for the upgrade, if necessary, although I will carry a bitter taste from my experience with version 8.1.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's actually pretty good, August 27, 2009

By	Bacchus Murphy "Book Reviewer" (Mississippi) - See all my reviews

I agree that this application should have supported Power PC and offered compatibility with previous versions. But with that said, for users with Intel Macs looking for a fast, stable, easy-to-use and powerful backup solution, Retrospect 8 is quite good. I was skeptical till I downloaded a 30-day trial. After using it for the past 3 weeks I'm quite pleased. The backups are faster than version 6 without the annoying hang that used to precede verification. And the initial scan and compare function is faster as well. In short, I've decided to splurge for the upgrade. Hopefully they'll release a backwards compatible version soon, but I now do backups to HDs whereas my old version 6 backups were on DAT tape that I don't use any more so I think the transition (for me) will be smooth.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy Retrospect 8, December 3, 2009

By	Scott Rose "Computer Geek" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As of December 3, 2009, this product is STILL not ready for primetime yet.

The old Retrospect 6 (and earlier) were fantastic products, but EMC decided to reinvent the wheel with Retrospect 8, and what they ended up with is:

1. A HORRIBLY UNINTUITIVE INTERFACE. They tried to squeeze an entire enterprise-level backup system into ONE WINDOW!! What sort of an interface guru came up with that brilliant idea? One window for 250+ different functions?? What Retrospect has become a TORTURED user interface that makes absolutely no sense at all, even if you have been a 15-year veteran of Retrospect like I am.

2. A tremendously BUGGY program that is not ready for prime time. It crashes, it gives strange error messages, buttons don't work as expected, features are incomplete (you can only backup computers in alphabetical order!). Network issues abound -- computers that were backing up just fine with Retrospect 6 no longer backup fine with Retrospect 8 (and yes, all updates have been applied on all computers).

Retrospect 8 has been a complete disaster for us and a pain in our arse on a daily basis. Avoid this product and stick with Retrospect 6.