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--- title: "Competitive Analysis - Retrospect for Mac" created_at: 2017.03.07 updated_at: 2021.05.25 category: White Papers ---

Retrospect for Mac enables small and medium businesses to protect their entire digital business. Let's compare Retrospect to the competition.

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• 5 Reasons to Migrate from Code42 CrashPlan to Retrospect Backup
• 3 Reasons to Migrate from Dropbox to Retrospect Backup for Data Protection
• 3 Reasons to Migrate from NAS File Sharing to Retrospect Backup for Data Protection

	Retrospect 18 for Mac	Archiware P5 Backup	Apple OS X Time Machine
Environment
Mac Support	✔	✔	✔
Windows Support	✔	✔
Linux Support	✔	✔
Server and Endpoint Support	✔	Requires P5 Backup2Go	✔
Cloud Data Protection Support	✔
Email Support	✔
Operations
Backup Operations	✔	✔	✔
Copy Operations	✔	P5 Synchronize
Archival Operations	✔	P5 Archive
Destinations
Disk Support	✔	✔	✔
Network Share Support	✔	✔	✔
Cloud Storage Support	✔	✔
Tape Support	✔	✔
Unlimited Storage	✔	Extra licenses	✔
Management
Centralized Management	✔	✔
File-level Deduplication	✔	✔	✔
Block-level Deduplication	✔
Proactive Backup	✔
Incremental Backup Support	✔	✔	✔
Point-in-time Restore	✔	✔	✔
Fine-Grained Filtering Controls	✔	✔
Flexible Scheduling	✔	✔
Customizable Data Retention Policies	✔	✔
AES-256 Storage Encryption Options	✔
AES-256 Network Encryption Options	✔
Monitoring Integration with Slack, IFTTT, Nagios	✔
Media Rotation Policies for Offsite Security	✔
iOS app for Remote Monitoring	✔

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