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

• 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: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,807 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

Product Description

Product Description

EMC Retrospect 8.0 backup and recovery software for the Mac provides small and midsize businesses with the reliability, ease of use, power, and flexibility needed to protect critical data. EMC Retrospect includes a state-of-the-art Mac user interface and enterprise-level features, including remote management of one or more backup servers and disk-to-disk-to-tape backups. With more than two decades of field-tested expertise and millions of users worldwide, EMC Retrospect is the most trusted name in Mac backup. User interface is laid out similarly to iTunes and Apple's Server Admin tool, making it immediately familiar and easy to navigate Performs up to eight simultaneous backup, restore, and copy operations Backup-to-disk features - support for local and network hard disks, combining multiple volumes into a single destination, adjustable storageusage limitations, and disk grooming to remove out-of-date backup data and free up space True disk-based backup staging - archive critical point-in-time backups to portable media or tape at your convenience Simultaneous streaming of data - Retrospect 8.0 streams data to multiple disk or tape storage systems at the same time Improved tape library management - barcode tracking and automatic tape drive cleaning makes tape library management easy Custom reporting - powerful reporting, including sources not backed up in n days, available/used media set capacity, performance data, and muchmore, keeps you informed and in control Email notification - notifies you of completed operations, media requests, and warnings Backup Data Encryption - government certified AES-256 encryption of backup data offers added security Retrospect 8.0 console (manages the engine) / Retrospect 8.0 engine (performs the backups and restores) - Intel processor Mac OS X 10.4.11 (may not be compatible with console) or 10.5.5 1 GB RAM (2 GB for engine) 50 MB hard disk space

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 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.

1 of 1 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.

4.0 out of 5 stars Professional Tool, August 31, 2009

By	M. J Bauer "Mike Bauer - Voracious Reader" (Commerce Township, MI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a complex, powerful product. You may have an easy to backup system, if so, this might be overkill for you. We have multiple Mac's (Intel) a complex network structure and an aging but powerful Infrant ReadyNAs NAS. The NAS is a RAID 5 NAS, with a priceless collection of photos and documents. I back up from the NAS to an external drive (RAID 1) for safety's sake. Retrospect has the power and performance to do this without a hitch and it performs well while doing it. I regularly achieve about 15MB/s backing up across a Gigabit network to a FW800 External Drive. You can download a 30 day trial of this application and try it out. Personally, I like it but it is a less expensive copy of a professional tool so it is not an easy to understand tool