
Protects any number of networked Windows, Mac, and Linux servers, desktops, and notebooks from a single host computer running Retrospect. Supports disk, cloud, and tape storage devices.
From $179 per month or from $2,999.
Key Features
Complete Data Protection
Retrospect provides complete protection with backup, archive, and duplicate features built in. Details>>
Server Protection
File-level and system-level protection for your servers with point-in-time restores. Details>>
Endpoint Protection
Deploy agents on every desktop and laptop to ensure complete protection across your entire infrastructure. Details>>
Cloud Backup
Retrospect supports more than twenty cloud storage providers, all seamlessly integrated with zero-knowledge security and no lock-in. Details>>
What's New - Retrospect Backup 17
Automatic Onboarding
IT administrators depend on streamlined workflows to deploy services and support within their organization. With automatic onboarding, administrators can share a single URL with their entire company, and each employee can download the client for their platform, pre-packaged with a public key for authentication. There are no user passwords, and Retrospect Backup 17 will automatically add the new clients and start protecting them using ProactiveAI.
10x Faster ProactiveAI
ProactiveAI has been optimized to handle many more sources with different storage profiles. Customers with endpoints that are offline at various times will see a 10x performance increase in how fast Retrospect Backup 17 finds the next available computer.
Restore Preflight
Large-scale data protection—relying on highly-optimized storage configurations like hundreds of tapes or Amazon Glacier— strategies require preflight capabilities to ensure a fast operation, and Retrospect Backup 17 allows customers to export a preflight summary including backup files and tape information.
Nexsan Certification
Retrospect Backup 17 is now certified for Nexsan E-Series and Nexsan Unity storage devices.
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Additional Features
Every edition of Retrospect includes our extensive feature set for complete data protection.
Centralized Management
Retrospect's high-level dashboard provides a high-level view of the entire state of your backup environment.
Cross-Platform Support
Heterogeneous networks are protected using Retrospect’s native client software, ensuring perfect backups regardless of operating system.
End-to-End Security
Retrospect supports a variety of encryption algorithms, including AES-256, for both at-rest and in-transit security options.
Smart Incremental Backup
Intelligent incremental backups enable Retrospect to backup up only new or changed files.
Smart Restore
Retrospect always restores exactly the files that belong on a volume; no unwanted files get restored and later require cleanup.
Fit any Storage Budget
Grooming allows customers to stay protected with a long-term backup retention policy to ensure recovery from yesterday, last month, or five years ago, using storage that fits their budget.
Monitoring Tools
Retrospect integrates with the latest monitoring systems, including Nagios, Slack, and IFTTT.
Data Deduplication
Retrospect maximizes storage usage by only copying unique files—even across multiple computers—to the backup media.
Disaster Recovery
Boot media can be created for nearly every Windows system protected by Retrospect to provide fast recovery from a non-bootable state.
Flexible Destination
Retrospect supports most types of magnetic media for backup, including hard disk drives, network-attached disk, cloud storage, flash media, and every major tape format.
Perpetual License
Each copy of Retrospect is a lifetime license for data protection, with no monthly subscription fees and affordable upgrade pricing.
Powerful Filtering
To include or skip specific files, folders, and volumes, or to back up only specific data to cloud storage, Retrospect includes both built-in and user-definable selectors that filter data based on a multitude of conditions, including file names, dates, and types.
Power Conservation
To reduce the overall power demands for backups, Retrospect awakens sleeping/stand-by mode computers to back them up and then allows them to return to their low-power state.
Monitor on an iPhone
Use the free Retrospect iOS app on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch to keep tabs on backups over Wi-Fi or 3/4G.
Why Businesses Choose Retrospect
Additional Add-ons
Open File Backup Unlimited
Protects open files on NTFS-formatted volumes on Windows servers, desktops, and laptops. This add-on makes it possible to protect line-of-business applications—such as accounting, CRM, and proprietary database systems—while they’re running, even those with data files spread across multiple volumes. Retrospect’s Open File Backup Unlimited add-on extends to all Windows systems protected by your Retrospect host server, including end-user desktops and laptops.
Dissimilar Hardware Restore Unlimited
Makes it possible to recover an entire boot volume—including the OS, applications, registry, and data—to a different physical computer, such as a newer model or even one from a different manufacturer entirely. Retrospect’s Dissimilar Hardware Restore Unlimited add-on extends to all Windows systems protected by your Retrospect host server, including end-user desktops and laptops.
Microsoft SQL Server Agent
Provides hot backups of Microsoft SQL Server 2019, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2008, and 2005. Automatically restores a SQL Server or individual databases to a specific point in time. Licensed for use on a SQL server running either the Retrospect application or as a Retrospect Client; includes a Retrospect Server Client license.
Microsoft Exchange Server Agent
Provides hot backups of Microsoft Exchange Server 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, and 2003 storage groups, databases, and mailboxes. (Due to Microsoft Exchange API changes, Exchange 2016 and higher mailbox backup is not supported.) Automatically restores an Exchange Server or individual components to a specific point in time. Licensed for use on an Exchange Server running either the Retrospect application or as a Retrospect Client; includes a Retrospect Server Client license.
Email IMAP Protection Agent
Provides protection and migration for unlimited email IMAP accounts. Back up every email account in the organization and restore individual emails with attachments to the original account or a new account. Migrate every email from one account to another one time or on a schedule.
Advanced Tape Support
Improves backup times by utilizing multiple tape drives in parallel, including multiple stand-alone drives, drives in libraries, or drives in autoloaders. The Advanced Tape Support add-on is licensed per Retrospect host server, not per tape drive. For example, only one Advanced Tape Support add-on license is required for a library with four tape drive mechanisms.
Annual Support & Maintenance (ASM)
Provides technical support via email and phone (available in select regions) and all upgrades/updates of purchased product at no additional cost for 1 year from the date of ASM purchase. Learn more about it >
Please ask your sales representative for more information about ASM.
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Resources
Best Practices
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Top Tips For Better Backup
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Cloud Backup - Best Practices for Data Protection with Cloud Storage
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Cloud Backup - How to Set Up a Cloud Backup
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Cloud Backup - How to Set Up an Amazon S3 Account
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Cloud Backup – How to Set Up a Google Cloud Storage Account
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Cloud Backup - How to Set Up Private Cloud Storage with Basho Riak S2
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Dissimilar Hardware Restore
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Planning for Disaster Recovery
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Protecting Exchange Server 2010
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Disk-to-Disk-to-Offsite Backups for SMBs
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Protecting virtual environments with Retrospect
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Protecting Parallels VMs with Retrospect
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File Vs Image Based Backup
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File Vs Block Deduplication
Tutorials
References
Best Practices
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Top Tips For Better Backup
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Cloud Backup - Best Practices for Data Protection with Cloud Storage
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Cloud Backup - How to Set Up a Cloud Backup
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Cloud Backup - How to Set Up an Amazon S3 Account
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Cloud Backup – How to Set Up a Google Cloud Storage Account
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Cloud Backup - How to Set Up Private Cloud Storage with Basho Riak S2
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Dissimilar Hardware Restore
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Planning for Disaster Recovery
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Protecting Exchange Server 2010
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Disk-to-Disk-to-Offsite Backups for SMBs
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Protecting virtual environments with Retrospect
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Protecting Parallels VMs with Retrospect
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File Vs Image Based Backup
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File Vs Block Deduplication
Tutorials
References
System Requirements
Retrospect for Windows supports the following Microsoft Windows operating systems for local and client backup and the following Apple OS X and Linux operating systems for client backup.
Protecting Servers
Backing up server OS clients requires Retrospect Multi Server or other Server edition with available Server Client Licenses.
Full System Requirements
See the Full System Requirements.
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, flash storage, and removable disk drives (RDX, REV, etc.). See the Retrospect Device Support Database for a complete list of supported tape drives and libraries.