Existing users, 
Retrospect is too unreliable to deploy in a serious production environment. We have HUNDREDS of backups that are unusable because of Dantz's failed attempts at OS X software. As a 10+ year user of Retrospect, and after many hundreds of dollars in expensive upgrades that should have been FREE bug-fixes -- I am sorry to report that our long-list of serious concerns about long-term reliability are unmet. Dantz never made the effort to support OS X early on -- and they are (at this late date) having to play serious catch-up -- and it shows.
Our data is far too important to EVER trust it to Retrospect.
Retrospect 6 Driver Update
backup driver
Version: 6.1.15.101
Unreliable & Risky
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: avfolk--2008 Friday, August 05 2005 @ 10:06 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
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Comments
Unreliable & Risky - DShore
I feel that after reading these comments my decision to dump Retrospect is justified. You have stated all the reasons that are the same for me.I am now cloning my drive which I feel is more useful because I can start up from my backup drive if my iMac crashes for any reason. I am currently using SuperDuper and pleased with the results.
I may switch to Carbon Copy Cloner because the latest update of Tiger has made it reliable.
Monday, August 08 2005 @ 06:58 AM PDT
SD! -> CCC? - sjk
Why would you want to switch from SuperDuper! to Carbon Copy Cloner?Wednesday, September 07 2005 @ 10:58 AM PDT
Unreliable & Risky - poolmouse
the fact that dantz is spiraling downward has no bearing on symantec's totall collapse as of osx. symantec was only have bad back in os9 days. anyone who trusts symantec after what they did to osx users does not deserve a computer.norton utilities was never more than an over-hyped over-marketed and over-rated piece of c**p. it has no place in any sysadmin's toolbox.
don
Saturday, August 06 2005 @ 02:18 PM PDT
Unreliable & Risky - skipowder1
I feel very much the same. I have also used retrospect for many many years as a Mac User. I have subsequently been informed that Dantz no longer supports retrospect backup for single users and will no longer do so. This was not an officially announced policy change but rather something I found out, only after calling up for assistance. They have sold it to Western Digital who make Back up drives and incorporate it into there one push button automatic backup. I am extremely dissappointed that such business practises still exist and that there is no recourse as a customer for some remuneration. But they are not alone.. Symantic's Norton Utilities is also guilty of this unannounced Shutdown to Mac Users. After 15+ years, Symantic suddenly stopped its support and any further upgrades for Norton Utilities for single Mac Users... They did this immediately and without any advanced warning.. with no regard for thousands of loyal mac users. At least some advance notice would have helped , at least one could have made the choice to maintain his/her old OS 10 to maintain diagnostic capablities. But since there was no advance warning and one upgraded to panther or tiger.. You simply found out upon running the normal diagnostic, that you could not. Unfortunately, as far as I am concerned , there is no other commisurate diagnostic available on the market that is anywhere near as user freindly and thorough as Symantic... If I am wrong about that fact someone please advise me..Reply to This
Saturday, August 06 2005 @ 10:47 AM PDT