Retrospect

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.

Features

• Protect servers, business-critical applications, desktops and notebooks with a single, easy to use product.
• Manage multiple backup servers remotely from a single screen, easing management for larger installations.
• New! Back up to and restore from offsite cloud storage. Use powerful filtering rules to allow complete local backups, while ensuring only critical data gets copied to the cloud.
• Back up Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and NetWare computers with a Mac host computer.
• 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.
• Monitor backups on-the-fly with free iPhone app and new Growl notifications.

The published price is that of a license for the base version of the Desktop product. Additional pricing information can be found here.

Engine

• New: Email Protection - See details
• New: BackupBot - See details
• New: Remote Backup - See details
• New: Data Hooks - See details
• New: Support for LTO-8 tape devices
• Improved: Email Notifications: Support for unauthenticated accounts
• Improved: Cloud Backup: Support for cloud set members exceeding 16 TB
• Improved: Cloud Backup: Support backup to Amazon Snowball and Snowball Edge
• Fixed: Fixed catalog rebuild issue caused by checking Backblaze B2 account authorization too frequently (#7131)
• Fixed: Fixed backup issue when Backblaze B2 requires re-authorization" (#7115)
• Fixed: Fixed Dropbox backup issue with intermittent "-1010" API request errors (#7092)
• Fixed: Allowed catalog rebuild to continue after skipping invalid backup data that causes error -641 (#7177)
• Fixed: Fixed catalog rebuild for backup set that have been moved to a different volume (#7127)
• Fixed: Full volume backup and copy now exclude backup set content, which can still be backed up or copied using favorite folders (#7212)
• Fixed: Fixed issue where non-English character in volume name prevents backup set creation (#7242)
• Fixed: Removed erroneous Thorough Verification warnings when copying to LTFS tapes (#6866)
• Fixed: Script hooks now fire for both volumes and favorite folders (#7046)
• Fixed: Fixed issue with media request timeout setting not taking effect (#7070)
• Fixed: Changed defaults for "Wake-on-LAN" option: disabled for proactive backup and enabled for other scripts (#7237)

Console

• Improved: Console now automatically adds the local server that is present
• Improved: Console now automatically launches the server installer when no local server is present
• Improved: Console now automatically selects the first server on launch
• Fixed: Fixed German translation in Preferences (#7107)
• Fixed: Fixed licensing text where "different or more capable license required" meant "Server license required" (#6787)
• Fixed: Fixed issue where upgrading server while proactive was paused prevented license entry (#6138)

Client

• New: Linux client installer supports multiple public keys
• Fixed: Fixed Linux client installer errors on Ubuntu and Debian (#7199)
• Note: n a future update, Linux clients running on server-level Linux distributions will be treated as server clients
• Fixed: Fixed Wake-on-LAN option for different network topologies (#6477)