Retrospect 9 box

Powerful, easy-to-use data protection

With more than two decades of field-tested expertise, Retrospect is the most trusted name in Mac backup and recovery - 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.

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Macintosh computers that run Retrospect:

Retrospect 9 console and engine (the Retrospect console and engine can be installed on separate Macs)

  • Intel processor
  • Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
  • At least 1 GB RAM
  • 50 MB hard disk space
  • Storage for backups

—Recommended configuration—

  • Intel Core Duo or better processor
  • Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
  • At least 2 GB RAM
  • 10-15 GB of hard disk space for each concurrent activity (backup, restore, etc.)

Retrospect 9 Client for Intel Macs

  • Intel processor
  • Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server 10.5.8 or later, including Lion
  • RAM that meets Apple's guidelines for each OS
  • Note: Backing up Mac OS X Server clients requires Retrospect Multi Server or Retrospect Single Server with available Server Client Licenses.

Retrospect 6.3 Client for PowerPC Macs

  • PowerPC G3, G4, or G5, or any Intel processor
  • Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server 10.3.9, 10.4.11, or 10.5.5 or later
  • RAM that meets Apple's guidelines for each OS
  • Note: Backing up Mac OS X Server clients requires Retrospect Multi Server or Retrospect Single Server with available Server Client Licenses.

Windows Clients Pentium processor or later

  • Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or 7; Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 or 2008
  • RAM that meets Microsoft's guidelines for each OS
  • Note: Backing up Windows Server clients requires Retrospect Multi Server or Retrospect Single Server with available Server Client Licenses.

Linux Clients

  • x86-based system running Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Desktop, SUSE Linux Professional, SUSE Linux Standard Server, or SUSE
  • Enterprise Server operating system.
  • glibc version 2 or later
  • Note: In order to use the graphical user interface (GUI) to change options and preferences, Java version 1.2 or later is also required.

Storage Devices

Retrospect supports a wide variety of storage devices as the destination for backups, including hard drives (both direct- and network-attached), tape drives and libraries (connected via FireWire, SCSI, iSCSI, Fibre Channel), and removable disk drives. Visit the Retrospect Device Support Information to verify that Retrospect supports your backup destination device.

Optical device support is deactivated in this release—please see the Retrospect 9 for Macintosh optical support notes for details.