EMC Insignia Retrospect Desktop - (V. 6.1) - Upgrade Package - 2 Clients - CD - Mac (925652) Category: Software Suites
Hit or Miss Recovery Software
I upgraded to Retrospect 6.0 for Mac in hopes that it would be more reliable than the previous version, Retropsect Express 5.0.   An attractive feature in 6.0  is that one can use the software to create a specialized driver for one's particular CD/DVD burner. I had hoped that this feature would allow for more reliable backups.  Unfortunately, the software is still too sensitive.  Sometimes it would write cleanly to my DVD/CD media.  Then at other times,  the program wouldn't finish -- on the log, the program would say that the write heads were dirty (even for brand new media).  I had a situation where the program created a backup to 10 spanned CD-RW's (took most of the day to create), but upon verification, rejected my image copy. If one sucessfully creates an image copy, then that copy is useable to restore from -- I have a set created in April 2004 which I use as my emergency backup. However, there is no guarantee that one can easily create another image copy whenever one needs one, because sometimes the software works and other times, it would say the write heads are dirty.  The program does seem to work better with CD-R or DVD-R media and not RW media.