It has a lot of great features Time Machine lacks, including advertised support for de-duplication, support for Linux and Windows clients, data verification, and powerful scheduling features.Īfter four days with it, here's what I can say about it: Retrospect used to be a trusted, well-rounded backup solution for power users. I may have to revert to that despite its slowness.Īfter Time Machine's been acting up since 10.9, I thought it would be a good idea to check out Retrospect again. I was using ChronoSync to B2, but upload speeds were horrible using that app. I've spent 98% of my time with this app troubleshooting instead of backing up. Even their support materials show screen shots that are versions and versions of macOS old and their support material is not up to date, especially regarding cloud backups. I'm giving the phone support people one more chance tomorrow, then I'm going to ask them to revoke my license and refund my money. I have spent hours via email and phone support on this piece of garbage. Trying to start Retrospect proper yields a message "connecting to 127.0.0.1" that is an endless loop of nothing happening. Directly trying to launch the Engine results in an instant crash. It loses its settings on quit, doesn't recognize that it has been given full disk access, doesn't start the Engine on startup even though it is checked to do so in Retrospect's System Preferences panel or adding it directly to login items. Since I've bought it, primarily to back up drives to B2 storage, this app has been nothing but trouble. I used to use it to back up to optical media and a tape drive before (then Dantz) decided to change their catalog format to a backwards-incompatible format, drop optical media support and then dropped Mac support entirely. I bought it several months back, carefully considering whether Retrospect was worthy of consideration after they had dropped support for the Mac years back. Monitor backups on-the-fly with free iPhone app and new Growl notifications.Ensure the security of your data with the highest level of government standard 128- or 256-bit AES encryption and new enhanced link encryption technology.Back up Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and NetWare computers with a Mac host computer.Use powerful filtering rules to allow complete local backups, while ensuring only critical data gets copied to the cloud. New! Back up to and restore from offsite cloud storage.Manage multiple backup servers remotely from a single screen, easing management for larger installations.Protect servers, business-critical applications, desktops and notebooks with a single, easy to use product.Retrospect is the most trusted name in Mac backup and recovery, with more than two decades of field-tested expertise - protecting Macs and Windows PCs and servers worldwide from data loss due to user error, computer failure or site-wide disasters such as fire, theft or flood.
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