Retrospect Backup
Protecting Data Since 1989
For 30 years, Retrospect Backup has protected data in millions of homes and businesses around the world.
Retrospect Backup 16
Complete Data Protection
Retrospect Backup provides complete protection with backup, archive, and duplicate features built-in, flexible scheduling, endpoint protection, cloud backup, block-level incremental backup, email protection, and stellar support.
9-Minute Backup
Retrospect Backup can perform an incremental backup of your entire system in under ten minutes, including a complete snapshot of your file structure for a perfect restore. It's one of the fastest backups on the market.
Every Major Platform
Retrospect Backup provides protection for every major platform with the support for the latest versions as well as versions from a decade ago–from Microsoft Windows Vista to Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2019, and Apple OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) to macOS Mojave as well as Linux, VMare, Hyper-V, SQL, Exchange, and IMAP.
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Highlights
Cloud Backup
Retrospect supports more than twenty cloud storage providers, all seamlessly integrated with zero-knowledge security and no lock-in for fast, affordable, offsite protection in your 3-2-1 Backup Rule. Details>>
Remote Management
You can monitor your entire backup infrastructure in a single pane of glass with the Retrospect Management Console–on your computer or on your phone, even outside the corporate network. Details>>
Remote Backup
Enabling remote backup requires minimal configuration on the server-side network and no changes for the remote employee's network, and it supports proactive scripts–with ProactiveAI–for backup when employees are online and on-demand restore for employees to get files back without assistance. Details>>
ProactiveAI
With ProactiveAI, backup scripts will optimize the backup window for the entire environment based on a decision tree algorithm and linear regression to ensure every source is protected as often as possible for an optimal RPO strategy. Details>>
Email Protection
The best protection against data loss is a backup, and email is no different. Customers can use Retrospect to back up their email accounts to a local or cloud destination, and they can restore a lost email or account with a couple clicks. Details>>
Block-Level Incremental Backup (BLIB)
With block level incremental backup (BLIB), you can significantly reduce your backup time and network usage when protecting certain common large files with up to 90% savings in some cases. Details>>
Virtual Protection
Retrospect Virtual enables you to protect your VMware and Hyper-V environments with a single console. Details>>
Retrospect: 30 Years of Backup
2019
Retrospect, Inc. acquired by StorCentric. Retrospect 16 for Windows and Mac. Retrospect Virtual 2019. Retrospect Management Console. Storage Groups. Deployment Tools. Cloud Backup to 26 Providers.
2018
Retrospect 15 for Windows and Mac. Retrospect Virtual 2018. Remote Management. Remote Backup. BackupBot. ProactiveAI. Email Protection. Data Hooks. Cloud Backup to 20 Providers. Private Cloud.
2017
Retrospect 12 for Windows and Retrospect 14 for Mac. Retrospect Virtual for VMware, Hyper-V. Scalable Data Protection. Cloud Backup to Backblaze B2, Wasabi. Script Hooks for Slack, Nagios. Avid. LTFS.
2016
Retrospect 11 for Windows and Retrospect 13 for Mac. Cloud Backup to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Dropbox. Performance-Optimized Grooming. Faster Catalog Rebuild. Configuration Management.
2015
Retrospect 10 for Windows and Retrospect 12 for Mac. 2x Faster Performance for Backup, Restore, Transfer, Grooming. Improved Email Notifications. Dashboard Enhancements.
2014
Retrospect 9 for Windows and Retrospect 11 for Mac. Block-Level Incremental Backup (BLIB). High-Level Dashboard. UEFI. Single Windows Localized Binary. 64-bit Windows DR.
2013
Retrospect 8.5 for Windows and Retrospect 10.5 for Mac.
2012
Retrospect 8 for Windows and Retrospect 10 for Mac.
2011
Retrospect, Inc. spun out of Rovi Corporation, becomes private, independent company focused solely on Retrospect Backup. Retrospect 9 for Mac released.
2010
Sonic Solutions acquires Retrospect from EMC. Rovi Corporation acquires Sonic Solutions.
2009
Retrospect 8 for Mac released. Retrospect 7.7 for Windows released.
2008
Retrospect 7.6 for Windows released.
2007
Retrospect 7.5 for Windows updates released.
2006
Retrospect 7.5 for Windows released.
2005
Retrospect 6.1 for Mac released.
2004
Dantz Development acquired by EMC Corporation. Retrospect 6 for Mac released. Retrospect One-Touch for Maxtor released. Retrospect 7 for Windows released.
2003
Retrospect 5.1 for Mac released.
2002
Retrospect 5 for Mac released. Retrospect 6 for Windows released.
2001
Retrospect 4.3 released.
2000
Retrospect 5.15 released.
1999
Retrospect 5 for Windows released. (First Windows release)
1998
Retrospect 4.1 released. Retrospect Express released.
1997
Retrospect 4 released.
1995
Retrospect 3 released.
1993
Retrospect 2 released.
1991
Retrospect 1.3 released.
1990
Dantz Development bought DiskFit back from SuperMac.
1989
Dantz Development released Retrospect 1.0.
1987
Dantz Development sold DiskFit to SuperMac.
1984
Dantz Development formed by Richard Zulch and Larry Zulch and released Megacopy.
Patents
- 5150473-Data storage format for addressable or sequential memory media – January 16, 1990, our backup set format
- 5966730-Backup system for computer network incorporating opportunistic backup by prioritizing least recently backed up computer or computer storage medium – October 30, 1996, first of the Proactive AI patents
- 7801859-Tracking filesystem backups – May 25, 2005, initial block-level backup work
- 8335768-Selecting data in backup data sets for grooming and transferring – May 25, 2005, first part of grooming
- 7913044-Efficient incremental backups using a change database – February 2, 2006, initial incremental backup work
- 8886902-Disk backup set access – February 2, 2006, Disk backup sets
- 7890746-Automatic authentication of backup clients – February 3, 2006, automatically adding clients via public/private key
- 7966513-Automatic classification of backup clients – February 3, 2006, used to sort clients into different backup policies
- 7421551-Fast verification of computer backup data – February 3, 2006, part of fast and media verification
- 8015441-Verification of computer backup data – February 3, 2006, part of fast and media verification
- 8341127-Client initiated restore – February 2, 2006, Client initiated restore
- 8042172-Remote access architecture enabling a client to perform an operation – February 2, 2006, generalizing client-initiated backup and restore
- 8250178-Protecting client-side code – September 15, 2006, initial groundwork for inserting proprietary javascript into a web-application
- 8800023-Remote access architecture enabling a client to perform an operation – August 16, 2011, further generalizing client-initiated backup and restore