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.

Note: Retrospect 14 is a paid upgrade. Retrospect 13.x for Mac purchases between Feb 1, 2017 through March 7, 2017 can upgrade for free by contacting Customer Support with your license code. For older purchases, see the upgrade price for your product using the License Wizard.

Engine

• Improved:
• 50% faster cloud backup for Internet connection above 250 Mbps
• Local restores now moderately faster with performance optimizations
• Increased performance of configuration import
• Fixed:
• Fixed issue with Slack integration where the status incorrectly showed "0 files"
• Fixed rebuild issue with media set name that starts with a number followed by a dash
• Fixed groom issue that could cause restore problem if thorough rebuild hasn't been performed prior to groom
• Fixed storage-optimized groom issue that cause restore problem in some cases for block-level incremental backups
• Fixed uncommon case of fast rebuild misreporting block-level incremental backup chains as broken and not restorable
• Fixed -1101 errors when saving fast rebuild cache (.session) files to media sets on network volume with similar name as other network volume
• Fixed configuration import issue where scripts and clients share the same name
• Fixed assert in an uncommon case when saving fast rebuild cache file
• Fixed assert after rare file IO error
• Fixed rare crash when Retrospect set to back up file security information but not folder security information on Windows
• Fixed rare crash when accessing Windows Client volume information in Retrospect's configuration
• Fixed misreported "error segment data" for multi-member media set

Console

• [Improved] Annual Support and Maintenance information integrated into product

Client

• New:
• Support for Microsoft Windows Creators Update
• Fixed:
• Fixed Mac client hooks for external scripting with event handlers
• Fixed Windows client issue where the client logs -1101 errors then terminates
• Improved logging for multicast IP addresses on Windows clients

Known Issues

• LTFS for Mac support does not copy extended attributes larger than 4096 bytes