Dantz Retrospect Backup 6.0
Designed for use in small to mid-sized enterprises, Dantz Retrospect Multi Server and Single Server provide thorough, fast backups, and 100%-accurate restores of networked servers, desktops, notebook computers, and line of business applications. Retrospect Professional delivers the capabilities of Retrospect's enterprise-class products to the home and small business user. The Retrospect product line protects against loss due to viruses, newly installed software, user error, damaged hardware, hardware upgrades, hackers, and lost or stolen computers.


How Retrospect Works
Retrospect copies files from a source and stores them in a Backup Set. The source can be a hard disk, server, client computer, network volume, CD-ROM, or even a combination of multiple sources. The Backup Set can be saved on storage media including: tapes (AIT, DAT, DLT, etc.), recordable discs (CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, or DVD+RW), disks (fixed disks, network volumes, and removables), or even a single file on a hard disk or server.

Retrospect uses an archival method of backup that ensures backed up files are not deleted or written over without your approval, so they stay on the recordable disc, tape, or disk indefinitely. This is helpful, for example, if you have been working on an important document every day for the past month and you discover you have been making terrible mistakes for the past week. If you have been backing up every day, Retrospect lets you retrieve a good version of the file from a week ago (or any point in time it was backed up). This is an important benefit of Retrospect not found in "disk mirroring" backup software.