No support at Retrospect and no listening to feature requests - Philippe Villoz

We have the same problem.

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Wednesday, August 16 2006 @ 02:27 PM PDT

Unstable on MacPro - foulgernz

Frequently crashes and needs a restart to boot again. Dantz were bad enough but this new crowd are quite awful.
What a shame there's no competition

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Monday, August 21 2006 @ 03:34 PM PDT

Unusable on Intel Macs - cwoodfield

I've been using Retrospect Desktop for ages, backing up all my machines over the network. For years, it ran on a headless PowerPC based Mac Mini. Recently, I attempted to upgrade to an Intel Mini, mainly for the GigE. Alas, Restrospect is completely unstable on that platform, often hanging the entire machine (although when it did run, it was a *lot* faster than on the old Mini -- frustrating!) Reluctantly, I have gone back to the old Mini for now.

Since there's no sign of a properly debugged Universal version of Retrospect (and EmcInsignia's web site is more often down than up), I think I'll hang on until Apple's TimeMachine becomes available (assuming it supports remote backup of multiple clients over the LAN), then dump Retrospect for good.

Sad, it used to be a good product (and still is as long as you run it on old machines).

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Thursday, September 21 2006 @ 12:42 PM PDT