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EMC Retrospect 7.5 for Windows

By Ian Murphy, 28 Sep 2006

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Price as reviewed:£699 exc VAT, single server; £1449 exc VAT, multi-sever

The second big change is that when you have roaming users, they often only backup when they next visit the office. As the amount of data to be backed is small, it can be done from a hotel room over a secure connection. The same is true when mobile users need to restore a file. The web UI means that they can do this on the road.

Preserving data

When a file changes, Retrospect does not overwrite the older version. Instead it writes them away with enough information to allow you to know which version it is. This means that you are not only saving space but you are not risking the loss of older versions of files.

The web interface will have a significant impact on IT administrators and users by improving the restore time and allowing users to take more responsibility over their own backups.

This is a very nice product, well priced and targeted at the smaller and mid market. However, it will also appeal to organisations who have a lot of users working out of branch offices or who are always on the road.

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Dangerously bad software

We have used EMC Retrospect for about a year, having switched from Backup Exec to save some money. I have regretted the decision ever since. So far, Retrospect has literally destroyed its backup sets not once, but FOUR times. I have contacted their technical support and was actually told that yes, Retrospect "randomly corrupts its backup sets" and catalogs. I tell you, honestly, I was actually given no other option than to blow away and redo my backup sets each time and was advised by another technician to "create a backup backup set" of the original, because the total destruction of backup sets is a known issue with EMC Retrospect. DO NOT purchase this software if, like me, your career depends on keeping your companies' data backed up. I will be moving back to Backup Exec, regardless of cost, and will never look back.

By hapbt on Friday Aug 7