What's New in Retrospect
New Features and Updates in Retrospect 15
Retrospect 15 is the best way to keep all of your devices protected. With email protection, BackupBot AI, remote backup, and data hooks, customers can easily protect their digital content from data loss, theft, accidents, and disaster.
What's New - Retrospect 15
Email Protection
Protect Gmail, Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo, and many others, or migrate from one to another with a couple clicks. Details>>
Remote Backup
Remote backup with Retrospect enables organizations to protect both employees in the office and remote employees across the world. Details>>
Data Hooks
Data Hooks are extensible dashboard plugins to summarize every important aspect of what Retrospect is doing, from storage to ongoing activities to overall protection. Details>>
What's New – Retrospect 15.1
Direct Email Migration and Syncing
Bypass backup and directly migrate from one email account to another, either one time or on a schedule.
Data Retention Policies
Customers can manage their storage easier than ever using rule-based filtering in grooming. Details>>
GDPR Data Compliance
With broad platform and application support, Retrospect enables customers to comply with the new EU GDPR regulations, including the "Right to be Forgotten" law. Details>>
New Cloud Storage
Retrospect 15.1 provides seamless integration with even more cloud storage providers both in the cloud and on-premise, including Minio, Zenko CloudServer, SwiftStack, Aqua Ray, Cynny Space, and Synology and QNAP NAS devices. Details>>
Windows April 2018 Update
The latest version of Windows is out, and Retrospect is fully certified for it.
Disk Archive Alto Support
Retrospect now supports Disk Archive Alto devices, which can store from 8 TB up to 11 PB in a single rack.
What's Next
Contact us for early access: preview@retrospect.com.
Storage Groups
Protect your entire backup environment with a single, centralized destination that Retrospect can use simultaneously. A preview release will be available in Summer 2018. Details>>
Management Console
The Management Console will enable you to monitor and manage up to 100 instances of Retrospect from a single interface. A preview release will be available in Summer 2018. Details>>
Web Console
The Web Console is the next step for the Retrospect interface, with the console running as a web application and the engine as a background service. A preview release for Windows and Mac will be available in Fall 2018. Details>>
What's New in Virtual 2018
Management Console Replication
The Management Console now supports replication to a different Management Console instance.
Management Console Redirection
Retrospect Virtual supports Management Console redirection for better protection for larger environments through partitioning.
Linux Virtual Host Server Support
Retrospect Virtual extends data protection to Linux guest virtual machines.
Additional Features
Retrospect Solo
Retrospect Solo is the newest addition to our data protection suite, available for $49. Retrospect Solo provides personal data protection to one computer and its external hard drives, with support for data backup and migration, email protection and migration, cloud backup, and BackupBot AI. Details>>
LTO-8 Support
Retrospect now supports LTO-8. This latest version of the LTO standard is capable of storing 12TB in a single cartridge, with a compression rate of 2.5:1.
Version Number
Every significant Retrospect feature for the last four years has been released on Windows and Mac, and we have taken this opportunity to bring the Windows version number in line with the Mac version number.
How to Upgrade
Upgrade Wizard: If you use an earlier version of Retrospect, you may be eligible for upgrade pricing.
Retrospect for Windows
Retrospect 15 for Windows is a paid upgrade for customers with Retrospect 12 for Windows or a free upgrade for customers with an active Annual Support and Maintenance (ASM) contract.
Retrospect for Mac
Retrospect 15 for Mac is a paid upgrade for customers with Retrospect 14 for Mac or a free upgrade for customers with an active Annual Support and Maintenance (ASM) contract.
Annual Support and Maintenance (ASM)
Annual Support and Maintenance (ASM) ensures you're always able to run the latest version of Retrospect with unlimited access to our Support team.
ASM Fulfillment: Customers with an active ASM contracts can get licenses for the latest versions of their products by processing their ASM fulfillment.
ASM Renewal: Customers with an expired ASM contract may be eligible to renew it and get licenses for the latest versions of their products.