For 29 years, Retrospect Backup has protected data in millions of homes and businesses around the world.

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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, upload speeds up to 350 Mbps, and no lock-in for 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>>
Scalable Data Protection

As an industry first for file-level backup, Retrospect is certified to back up 1 billion files per backup set, 100 TB of data per backup set, and 50 million files per device.
Virtual Protection

Designed for partners, Retrospect Virtual enables you to protect your customers' VMware and Hyper-V environments with a single console. Details>>

Retrospect: 30 Years of Backup

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

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