FHALS  Using it back to System 7, Retrospect saved my life for more times than I can count.

I think, everybody who uses this product in a Mac environment with a lot of machines and professional tape libraries has no other choice.

Frequent driver updates include all actual storage products one can use.

Simply become the king of users asking you for the origin of a file they have accidently altered weeks ago.

Switch back to a mountable volume before some major problems went in.

Get log files about any possible problem during the backup.

Scan terabytes of backups for specific files and retreive the one of a special date.

Easily build backup scripts around a whole network, daily differnt, multiple file selectors, encrypt the traffic and a whole bunch more of features.

Don't know, why so much people are bashing this product (is it, because there is no choice?).

By the way: How much commercial apps served a free upgrade from Tiger to Leopard?

Only con: Sometimes get stuck in a reload of a new tape library and needs the actual tape reloaded manually (depends on the library product).

If you need a cheap single desktop backup on another disk hang on CCC, if you need more, Retrospect is your friend.  (Version 6.1.138)

ABATES25  I've been using retrospect as the backup solution with all my clients, ranging from single-user consultants to 70+ person organizations, and have always been thrilled with it.

Unlike others here, I don't upgrade any mission critical machines to the newest OS release until after the first couple months in the wild and, by following that mantra, have never had any problems. It can connect to a host of clients through a variety of methods, the backup sets can be modified as I need, and the device compatibility list grows by the week.  (Version 6.1.138)

LEIAANGEL  Check out CrashPlanPRO Server, it's been working well for us. They supported Leopard on release day unlike Retrospect.

The server product is free. More info at http://www.crashplanpro.com  (Version 6.1.11.101)

AMT  I've been using retrospect since version 3. I'm still using it for daily backups to a firewire drive. It's been fine.

Where I have trouble is that I am unable to retrieve files burned to DVDs for the last 2 years. My new DVD drive isn't one that is recognized by the retrospect driver. Does anybody know of a recovery program that will ignore retrospect and just retrieve files?  (Version 6.1.11.101)