OK, NetWorker and Retrospect are sort of only related by virtue of the fact that they’re both owned by the same parent company, EMC.<\/p>\n
However, I’ve been a fan of Retrospect for years, having done quite a lot of sysadmin style work on the side for a particular graphic design house. I think it’s probably the most underrated workgroup level backup product on the market. Certainly on the Macintosh side, it did somewhat seem to suffer following the acquisition by EMC*, and it’s been a long wait for a comprehensive update.<\/p>\n
So, it’s good to see that Retrospect 8 for the Macintosh has been released. There’s reasonably good coverage to be found at TidBits<\/a>, with official information to be found at the EMC\/Dantz Retrospect for Mac<\/a> product page.<\/p>\n Is Retrospect enterprise ready? Heck no \u2013 but that’s no bad reflection on the product either; I like workgroup backup products that don’t pretend to be enterprise products. It’s usually tricky, and it usually ends in tears.<\/p>\n Long term I’d like to see better NetWorker\/Retrospect integration \u2013 for instance, it would be an excellent stepping stone for companies if they could covert a Retrospect server, regardless of platform, into a NetWorker “readonly” storage node \u2013 i.e., integrate so that new backups are done with NetWorker once a company reaches a certain size, but legacy backups remain, and can be recovered from within NetWorker.<\/p>\n — OK, NetWorker and Retrospect are sort of only related by virtue of the fact that they’re both owned by the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[832],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networker","tag-retrospect"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-49","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* Historically, it had already appeared that the Macintosh version of Retrospect had been suffering under the old Dantz management though – it was certainly lagging behind the Windows version of the product by the time EMC purchased Dantz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"