Rating: 
Summary: I hate it!
Review: I'm an experience Macintosh user, and have used an earlier full version of Retrospect at work to back up 40 Macs on our network. I bought Retrospect Express 5.0 to back up my iMac at home. First there were problems installing this software, then it fought me every step of the way with its inscrutible instructions, long wait times, and failures. I give up. Don't buy this junk. I just wasted $...!
Rating:
Summary: Failed when I need it most
Review: I've been using RE 5.0 for about 18 months. It isn't intuitive, and every time I made a backup I had to re-learn the non-standard interface, but I was able to make backups.My hard drive volumes were trashed beyond repair while installing another product, so I inserted the RE CD to restore my disk. Unfortunately, everytime the boot-up gets about 90% done, I get a System error message and the whole thing locks up. Now I have a crashed computer, a complete backup of my files on an external Firewire, and a completely useless CD with Retrospect Express printed on it. Incidentally, the 2 other applications that I bought to help me during these events also didn't work. It's quite a beautiful thing.
Rating:
Summary: Failed when I need it most
Review: I've been using RE 5.0 for about 18 months. It isn't intuitive, and every time I made a backup I had to re-learn the non-standard interface, but I was able to make backups. My hard drive volumes were trashed beyond repair while installing another product, so I inserted the RE CD to restore my disk. Unfortunately, everytime the boot-up gets about 90% done, I get a System error message and the whole thing locks up. Now I have a crashed computer, a complete backup of my files on an external Firewire, and a completely useless CD with Retrospect Express printed on it. Incidentally, the 2 other applications that I bought to help me during these events also didn't work. It's quite a beautiful thing.
Rating:
Summary: Has not improved
Review: This program came to me through a external hard drive that I purchased. Years ago I used a version of this program successfully and this newest version has been no problem. It seems that some other users have had problems but I install the bundled version on my computer and within 15 minutes the program began to backup my system. I found it very easy to use.
Rating: 
Summary: Works great for me!
Review: This program came to me through a external hard drive that I purchased. Years ago I used a version of this program successfully and this newest version has been no problem. It seems that some other users have had problems but I install the bundled version on my computer and within 15 minutes the program began to backup my system. I found it very easy to use.
Rating:
Summary: S/W does not work
Review: This s/w was bundled with my Maxtor 5000 drive. The drive is great, but the Retrospect software does not work, the interaction between the drive and the s/w is flakey at best; the user interface is very difficult to understand. I finally had to de-install the software and use Windows XP Backup with the drive. The company who makes this product would not offer support because by the time I got around to calling them about their failed s/w it had been more than 30 days past the date I bought the Maxtor drive. Maxtor's reponse was, "Call Retrospect". In the future, I'll be keeping away from this company for sure.
Rating: 
Summary: Problems - not as good as I expected.
Review: When I first ordered Retrospect from Amazon.com a couple weeks ago, I rated it a 5 in eager anticipation, having liked it on Windows, and knowing that Retrospect was strong in the Apple market. But now I still can't get it to work. I can see no evidence that it can work over ftp from my OS X iBook -- it requires active ftp, and OS X requires passive ftp. Questions on the online Dantz Retrospect on this yield no replies. Hours spent searching and trying things yield nothing. I might be able to get it to work by hooking it directly to the internet with the firewall turned off, so that active ftp worked, but I refuse to engage in such unsafe computing. Also, Dantz still is having troubles with the automatic backups on OS X, from what I can see of others on their online forum, as well as a variety of other more specialized issues...
| 
