If you’ve been using a Mac for any real length of time, you probably know Retrospect. They’ve been releasing great backup tools to Mac users since the Metazoic age of MacOS 6, and despite coming under the thrall of various corporate overlords from time to time, Retrospect’s still hard at work making great software… and Retrospect 9 for Mac might be their best backup client yet.
What’s new? Growl notifications and AES-256 encryption, for one, making Prospect 9 a corporate level backup solution. Task workflows and WebDAV support are now in the mix, as well as a network backup option supporting all flavors of machines, including Mac, Linux and Windows, and the whole software package has gotten a shot in the arm to run even faster and prettier than ever before.
How much? $129 for five users, or $479 for a single-server, 20 seat license. Pay $1699 and use it on as many servers and as many users as you want. Or just download the free trial.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
5 responses to “Retrospect 9 For Mac Makes Secure Backups More Painless Than Ever”
MacOS 6? I think you mean System 6. From the time when you could boot a Mac Plus from a low density floppy, and as well as the system folder, the boot disk still had enough room for copies of MacWrite, MacPaint, and at least half a dozen documents. Happy days!
Working as a service tech, mainly focusing on Apple products and related peripherals I can say that the notion that Retrospect 9 in their ‘best backup client yet’ does not really say much considering the preceding version is utter rubbish.
On almost a daily basis I am exposed to the woes of Retrospect’s instability and quirks. In some cases it’s even so bad that some clients I know of have gone over to using Carbon Copy Cloner as an intermediate step before upgrading to better software.
Retrospect 8 is terrible. Why should we give them more money?
I’ve been using Chronosync as a compliment/replacement for Retrospect. So far it works good.