Retrospect Backup Professional 6.5.342

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• Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $129.00 to buy
• Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
• Date added: November 18, 2004
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• 1 stars

  Version: Retrospect Backup Professional 6.5.342

  "This program is a con"

  by pjotrs on September 18, 2007

  Pros: The CD comes in a paper sleeve that you can use for other CDs

  Cons: This program is a con. Buyers beware. It can make backups but not restores. It saves in *.rbc files. For restore it needs *.rbf files. It can read them if the description of the *rbc files is available. It saves this information on harddisk which is exactly the thing you wanted to back up in the first place. Harddisk crash, all data lost. If you want to 'recreate' the archive, it doesn't work (check with Google to find many dissatisfied customers), so you have to buy a license for support. This con is equivalent to buying a car without steering wheel, pedal or gear shift and when you want to drive it you have to buy extra for customer support. It would be a scandal in automotive industry. For software industry it goes unnoticed.

  Whatever you do, don't buy this product, you are warned. There are good alternatives. 'Copy' if you just want to back up your archives. It works!

  Or Acronis which is extremely easy to use and failsafe (No, I am not a salesperson of that company). There are many other good programs.

  Maybe if you are a network manager and want to backup many computers, let's say make a backup with the program on computer A of computer B on harddisk C, it might work. However, if you are a simple home user, you want to make a backup of computer A on (external) disk B, then don't use this program. YOUR DATA WILL BE LOST.

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• 1 stars

  Version: Retrospect Backup Professional 6.5.342

  "Perfect for masochists & those with nothing to back up"

  by yarlq on March 20, 2007

  Pros: Best thing: it can be uninstalled without resorting to pick and chisel (a la Symantec). Next best: it was free with a Western Digital drive with which it had an incestuous, convoluted and totally self-absorbed relationship. The only thing it does well is take up disk space until something useful comes along. Does it work? I don't know - I still can't get my back-ups back! Someone else is always using the program ... even though I am the only user ...

  Cons: It is arcane and encourages endless loops with no visible means of escape. With luck, you can perform one operation before the system must be re-started. Even then, try and get your data back. Just try.

  Feel lucky, Pilgrim?

  Go ahead, reach for it! Better yet, take the $129, get yourself a good secretary ...

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• 1 stars

  Version: Retrospect Backup Professional 6.5.342

  "Difficult to use"

  by leolomba on November 5, 2005

  Cons: When Zip disk used to be the easiest way to back file, Iomega had a very simple, easy-to-use back up software. This one is very complicated and I always end up backing up a bunch of files that I do not need to back up, thus slowing down the entire process. I am looking for an alternative sofware.

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• 5 stars

  Version: Retrospect Backup Professional 6.5.342

  "Great product"

  on December 14, 2004

  Summary: Very solid product. Not the most intuitive but indispensible once you learn to use it.

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• 1 stars

  Version: Retrospect Backup Professional 6.5.342

  "Incomprehensible"

  on November 19, 2004

  Summary: This came with the maxtor drive. Very difficult to use; the makers have gone out of their way to make this anti-intuitive and hard to understand what it's doing; many processes seem to work in a backwards manner, very scary to use because you're nev... read more >>

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