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EMC Retrospect 7.5 Professional for Windows Upgrade Reviews

I have a small company and have been fighting this product for over two years. What good is an auto script if you have to confirm USE THIS TAPE 300 times before it will actually use it. It is extremeily slow on backup, slows machines to unusable speed for end users and requires that someone monitor it's auto scripts. It has taken as many as three tries to get it to run an "Auto" script once, and the next time it wants confirmation of something else again. Every time an auto script is supposed to run it find some excuse not to.

It should be. So I got it here at Amazon. With a little kicking under the server I eventually get them all backed up. I just want to EASILY pick what I want backed up and let the software go do it. BUT my main gripe is the piss poor interface. Not so easy.

I had the "Lite" version of Retrospect included with my NAS. This was obviously programmed by a network guru geek. That made me eligible to get the Upgrade of the 7.5 Pro version with 3 licenses. It also looks AWFUL no sense of either interface, it's more old school DOS with a graphical touch to it, feh. So this is it for now. I was looking for a backup solution.

It needs a MAJOR work over. EMC Retrospect Pro ver. I've used other software in the past that was that easy and got the job done. Unfortunately there aren't many choices for backup and Vista's built in one is buggier than. Well, it works, sorta. I have a home network with a Mac and a couple of PCs. So I figured for under $50 I'd be good.

I think my network is OK but sometimes the Mac module doesn't get seen (I'm not a Mac expert it could be my fault). 7.5 Upgrade:. That was then, this is Vista, XP and OSX. There is no rhyme nor reason to anything.

The price was cheaper too I think. The fix was:. BTW, don't expect to be able to do a "bare metal" restore on OS X. * retrospect elem.cpp-993. So I tried without first uninstalling Retrospect Pro 6.5 (mistake). * reboot (because Retrospect does ugly things to low levels of the host OS). No documentation of course, but I know this immensely complex and completely unfriendly software very well.

I ran the backups for a week and did a few random file restores and there have been no errors, though I admit that the only Mac I backup now is a PPC Mac running OS X 10.4. I had to either upgrade or switch to individual machine backup - a thought too painful to consider. I've discovered, however, that they have invested in EMC® Retrospect® Pro 7.5 for Windows. and like this:. I wrote about my use of it many years ago. (They've introduced "wizards" to try to make it friendlier, but I disabled those.

* uninstall Retrospect Pro 6.5. That might be theoretically possible, but I've never heard of anyone doing it using Retrospect. It was the "enterprise" backup solution for many educational institutions and some businesses in the early days of the Mac. * update and reboot. Most of what I wrote there is still true, so if you want to get my opinion of the overall app take a look at that old page. I fumbled around a bit, thinking 7.5 was choking on my complex scripts, but I couldn't fix the problem.

What you get with the CD is an "activation code". So I bought the upgrade from Amazon, thinking I should get the physical media. In the past six months or so, however, EMC reinstated user forums and, above all, provided 30 day trial versions of all their products. EMC looked worse at first no user forums, no trials, nothing.

OS: Windows XP version 5.1 (build 2600), Service Pack 2, (32 bit). Towards the end time Dantz, who owned it then, created a Windows SOHO product called "Retrospect Pro" that ran on a Windows machine and backed up both Macs and PCs. Exception code: c0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION. The upgrade process is a bit odd, but despite hanging for a bit at one point it completed. [the following is excerpted from my personal blog review]. * heck, reboot again. The first thing I got were error messages and log entries like this one:.

What you get is a CD - nothing else. Exception occurred on 6/22/2007 at 10:56:33 AM. When the Mac was dying, sometime after OS 7, Retrospect went into decline. EMC bought Retrospect, and I figured that was the end. You enter that on the right page, your old registration code, and your address information to get a new code, which you'd better not lose (it is emailed to you as well as shown online). I'd held off upgrading for years because Dantz releases were so buggy an "upgrade" only introduced new issues - and left the old issues unchanged. Retrospect is an old name in Macintosh software.

Dantz foundered, earning a reputation for miserly customer support and increasingly buggy products. * install Retrospect Pro 7.5. They'd done enough to deserve a look, they'd dropped the price (buy on Amazon), the upgrade price was reasonable, and I was desperate. Application: C:Program FilesRetrospectRetrospect 7.5retrorun.exe,. Fault address: 004093c3 0001:000083c3 (null). The 30 day trial then worked. * reboot. * look for updates.

It was indeed the end for the Macintosh product line, it's not been updated in years and it's hard to believe it will be sold after 10.5 is released. In summary, Retrospect Pro is still a very unfriendly and complex hunk of software, and the clients probably don't work properly with a modern Mac, but it's an improvement on recent versions and if you want to backup a mixed LAN affordably and automatically there are no other choices. I found this out because Retrospect Pro 6.5, which I've been reluctantly losing because there is still no alternative for automated backup of a mixed Windows/Mac LAN had become very unstable. It was failing with cryptic error messages, it's a few years old, and I was using it in an unsupported fashion (with clients released for newer server versions) there was no sense trying to fix it.

* uninstall Retrospect Pro 7.5. I've no idea if they help). This is all about backing up your personal data. * reboot.

I'll soon be adding in the Intel laptop and I'm reasonably sure I'll have problems I don't think EMC has many Mac resources left. I run the Windows software on an old XP machine I'll run until it dies and is replaced by a new Intel iMac and an XP VM. They never really adjusted to OS X; the code base was probably too old to fix and they'd deferred a rewrite for too long.

It was constantly complaining that it couldn't connect to the backup server, which required constant intervention. It works 100 times better than this product. This product is pretty much the worst piece of software I've ever used. I finally gave up and purchased a Seagate USB drive that comes bundled with a great little utility called BounceBack. Also, I hated the fact that the backup files were only intelligible to the program itself.

I do not recommend the vendor. The Support from the company was lacking. If I had known that I would not received the help I would have looked elsewhere. I contacted the vendor for help/assistance in regards to a problem I was having.