Backup software: Dantz Retrospect Professional

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Comments on suitability of Dantz Retrospect Professional in both Win 2000 and Win XP?

I do not yet have the critter, but I am attracted by the stated ability to create a bootable CD-ROM with Retrospect that would enable me to restore a system from an external, say, USB drive.

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I’m not a user per se, but I can tell you that Retrospect has been used for two or three years now at the place where I work and the two guys who are responsible for it (doing workstations and servers) have nothing but favorable comments. One of the guys gave me enough of a familiarity tutorial so that I could swap out the destination hard drives once a week if he’s not going to be present. They have two “destination” machines, with hard drives in removable trays – one for workstations and the other for servers. I’m afraid I don’t know any more than that – other than the fact that those backups have “saved the bacon” on a number of occasions!

Edited to add: I should have said that Retrospect is running on a Win2K machine and the machines on the LAN being backed up run the gamut of 2K, XP, 98SE and maybe even a WinME machine or two…..

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If being used with servers, your place is likely using the server editions of Retrospect.

Retrospect Pro is limited to 2 Client licenses, i.e., a total of 2 systems, tho I believe extra licenses may be purchased.

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At this price it better be great.
Retrospect Pro 129.00
Retrospect Single Server 699.00
Retrospect Multi Server 1099.00

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Those are the prices direct from Dantz.

Much cheaper from online vendors.

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It was included free with the Yamaha CD/RW I brought about 6 weeks ago. Haven’t tried it yet though.

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(Edited by Phil Rabichow on 01-Mar-03 14:51. to correct URL)

Howard:
I have neither Win 2000 nor XP, but I found these reviews:
Danz Retrospect:
http://www.zdnet.com/supercenter/stories/o…,547419,00.html[/url]

Backup MyPC:
http://www.mikhailtech.com/articles/software/backupmypc/%5B/url%5D
http://www.pcnineoneone.com/reviews/sw/backupmypc.html%5B/url%5D
http://www.monkeyreview.com/reviews/review.php?num=86%5B/url%5D
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4894%5B/url%5D

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DriveImage is not relevant to this thread.

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The latest issue of The Naked PC Newsletter reviews both Maxtor’s external hard drive and Dantz Retrospect.
I would guess that the newsletter is available at http://www.thenakedpc.com/%5B/url%5D.

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