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Business Product Family Overview
EMC
®
Retrospect
®
backup and recovery software is designed to deliver automated and reliable protection for the
small and medium business (SMB) and the distributed enterprise. Businesses choose to protect their data assets
with Retrospect for its ease of use, fast backups, smart restores, and simplified media management.
Award-winning software
For more than two decades, EMC Retrospect software has protected
thousands of businesses and millions of computers across the globe from
data loss and system failure. Retrospect has won numerous awards and
broad industry acclaim for its ease of use, reliability, accuracy, and speed.
Protect servers, desktops, and notebooks
Retrospect for Macintosh runs on a Macintosh backup computer and
protects networked servers, desktops, and notebooks running the latest
Macintosh operating systems including Mac OS X Tiger, as well as desktops
and notebooks running Windows and Red Hat Linux.
Easy to manage, self-adjusting
The EasyScript
™
wizard, intuitive graphical user interface, and automatic
backup device recognition make it easy to set up backups that run
automatically on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule, and during a specific
time frame. Retrospect’s self-adjusting operations further ensure computers
are never starved for protection. Servers, desktops, and notebooks are
recognized when they connect to the network and re-prioritized if they
were unavailable or could not be backed up within a previous time period.
Backups can also be set on a fixed schedule. To prevent waste of media
and time, filters allow administrators to exclude a variety of information
during backups, including music and movies.
Fast, reliable, secure backups
Retrospect’s patented Progressive Backup technology accelerates
backups and reduces storage costs by copying only new or changed
data since the previous backup. Retrospect recognizes identical files that
reside on multiple desktops and laptops and backs up just one copy. Data
compression further minimizes backup storage consumption. Retrospect
verifies all backup content, not just file name and size, to avoid costly
surprises. To protect against unauthorized access, Retrospect provides
fast SimpleCrypt
™
or strong DES data encryption on the backup media.
Smart Restores™
Retrospect’s patented technology enables fast, reliable restores of
individual files, directories, or entire file systems with unparalleled
accuracy. Retrospect compiles a complete list of files and folders prior
to each client backup. Retrospect references the appropriate list and
restores only the exact data necessary to return the computer to a
particular point in time. Other software applications restore an entire
full backup and overlay subsequent incremental backups, resulting in
lengthy recovery times and unwanted files that were previously deleted,
renamed, or moved. With Retrospect, you recover only data that’s needed,
eliminating confusion and potential mistakes.
Backup to disk, tape, or CD/DVD — simplify media management
Retrospect provides the flexibility to leverage disk, tape, or CD/DVD devices
to optimize backup and recovery performance, cost efficiency, and restore
capabilities. To guard against media failure or disaster, Retrospect makes it
easy to create and manage multiple sets of backup data. Retrospect also
uses a quick incremental backup to update tapes brought onsite, avoiding
the need for new full backups and simplifying media rotation policies.
Bare metal restore
Retrospect delivers fast, efficient bare metal restore capabilities for your
Macintosh computers. During the course of performing backups, Retrospect
gathers all necessary information to completely restore a computer, even if
it has become unresponsive. Use the Retrospect product CD to start the
computer and activate Retrospect. Then restore the operating system,
applications, application settings, data, and user preferences. Retrospect
saves countless hours of software installation, system configuration, and
downtime costs. Whether you need to recover a file or folder, take a
computer back to a prior point in time, or restore a computer that has failed
completely, Retrospect has you covered.
Backup and
Recovery Software
EMC
®
Retrospect
®
6.1
for Macintosh