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.

Versions

• Mac console - 14.5.0.146
• Mac engine - 14.5.0.146
• Mac client - 14.5.0.146
• Windows client - 12.5.0.177
• Linux client - 11.0.0.107

Engine

• New:
• Support for MySQL database protection via script hook - See details
• Support for PostreSQL database protection via script hook - See details
• Support for MongoDB database protection via script hook - See details
• System Certification for Apple macOS High Sierra with Apple File System (APFS) - See details
• Daily backup report email - See details
• Cloud storage support for Wasabi
• Improved:
• Retrospect Dashboard includes improved media request text
• Fixed
• Fixed rebuild issue where certain block-level incremental backups (BLIB) are incorrectly excluded from catalog
• Updated bundle version numbers for engine and Instant Scan bundles
• Fixed issue with Configuration Import where long names or certain characters led to application crash
• Fixed issue with Configuration Import where execution units were not set correctly
• Fixed crashes related to scalable data protection

Console

• Fixed system log message for "App Transport Security" when launching Console

Client

• New:
• System Certification for Microsoft Windows Fall Creators Update
• System Certification for Ubuntu Linux 15, 16, and 17
• System Certification for RHEL 7 Update 3
• System Certification for CentOS Linux 7 Update 3
• System Certification for Suse Linux 11.4 and 12.2
• System Certification for Debian Linux 8 and 9
• Fixed:
• Fixed client restore issue where suid bit for file and folder was not set correctly
• Fixed client workflow for restoring backup from client where the set is in a folder
• Fixed issue where client's History tab failed to populate after engine had been restarted
• Fixed issue that prevented script hooks from being executed
• Fixed Windows client issue with block-level incremental backup (BLIB) where restore fails for read-only files
• Added error for Windows client block-level incremental backup (BLIB) restore where Retrospect fails to find base file

Known Issues

• As of beta 8, Retrospect cannot perform a bootable restore or bootable duplicate for an APFS destination volume. We are working with Apple to resolve this issue.