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Retrospect, developed by Retrospect, Inc., is a comprehensive data backup and recovery software solution designed for both small businesses and large enterprises. This robust software combines reliability, efficiency, and ease of use, making it an indispensable tool for protecting critical data.
Retrospect Backup Overview
It is the most trusted name in Mac backup and recovery, with more than two decades of field-tested expertise – protecting Macs and Windows PCs and servers worldwide from data loss due to user error, computer failure or site-wide disasters such as fire, theft or flood.
One of Retrospect’s distinguishing features is its cross-platform support, allowing users to back up and restore data on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. This versatility allows for the management of diverse IT environments with a single, comprehensive solution. The software supports a wide range of storage devices, including disk and tape drives, NAS, and cloud storage, providing flexibility in choosing the method and location of data storage.
Retrospect Backup provides complete protection for every major operating system, virtual environment, application, and email service–with seamless integration to our hosted service, Retrospect Management Console.
Remote employees pose a significant challenge to legacy backup systems. Their endpoint needs data protection, but with ubiquitous cloud services like Office 365 and Dropbox, those employees don’t need to log into the VPN on their laptops to get work done. Without a VPN, legacy backup systems cannot back up these desktops and laptops because the agents are behind firewalls and routers with network address translators (NATs).
With Retrospect Backup, every employee’s data can be protected. Retrospect Backup provides multiple solutions, depending on the optimal configuration for your business: VPN Backup, Remote Backup, and Cloud Backup.
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VPN Backup
- Optimised for remote workers using VPNs, you want to protect them with a local instance of Retrospect Backup. Retrospect Backup works seamlessly with virtual private networks (VPNs) thanks to automatic agent discovery and protection features for remote workers. You can also quickly onboard new remote workers using automatic onboarding in the Retrospect management console.
Remote Backup
- Optimised for remote employees without a VPN, you want to protect them with a local instance of Retrospect Backup. Retrospect Backup lets you protect your employees’ workstations outside your VPN without any changes to the client’s router using remote backup. With full on-demand restore support, employees can retrieve files without assistance, and seamless, automated provisioning ensures easy deployment.
- Enable two port forwarding options to forward ports from the server’s public IP address on your router/NAT/firewall to the Retrospect module.
- Configure the Retrospect module to accept remote backups.
- Configure the Retrospect client to periodically send backup requests to the module.
Key Features
- Protect servers, business-critical applications, desktops and notebooks with a single, easy-to-use product.
- Manage multiple backup servers remotely from a single screen, easing management for larger installations.
- New! Back up to and restore from off-site cloud storage. Use powerful filtering rules to allow complete local backups, while ensuring only critical data gets copied to the cloud.
- Back up Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and NetWare computers with a Mac host computer.
- Ensure the security of your data with the highest level of government standard 128- or 256-bit AES encryption and new enhanced link encryption technology.
- Monitor backups on the fly with a free iPhone app and new Growl notifications.