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Rating: 
Summary: Very Good and Very Easy
Review: I bought this product, did not read my manual and still all my backups are safe, I use the internal CD-RW/DVD of my G4 that is supported now and working fine. The best thing about this product is it's very intuitive user interface. I clicked around a couple of time and did the first succesful backup ten minutes after installing it. If you want your data to be safe, and you do not want to spent time thinking about backups, BUY this product and get it over with. There a lot nicer things to do than backup and the people that make this software obviously understood that!!
Rating: 
Summary: Great program for people whose lives are too enjoyable
Review: I'd read superb reviews of Retrospect, so I was extremely disappointed with the unintuitive interface, the limited choice of backup drives supported (Iomega, for instance, is not among the Anointed, for the most part), and the inability of the program to perform basic functions despite coming with reams of (electronic) documentation. I've got to agree with bunab -- it's all very un-Mac-like. And, like bunab, I'm no newbie -- I've spent plenty of time installing and using software, troubleshooting hardware/software problems. So it's not that I'm a few Bradys short of a Bunch. This is a very stubborn program and it's turning me into a very grumpy person.
Rating:
Summary: Frustration Ware PLUS
Review: My honest rating: MINUS 5 stars. An ideal gift for someone you despise or a masochist you want to please. It is worse than useless. I have been using Macs since 1988, and I have never, repeat NEVER had as much trouble with any other application I have ever used. This is a quintessential example of an "un-Mac-like" and "non-intuitive" program. In spite of possibly forty hours of trying, I have been unable to make it work. I have a Mac G3, 128 meg RAM, 4GB & 9GB hard drives, and a USB writable CD. I cannot get this program to even RECOGNIZE any drive but the one with the current operating system. Dantz technical support has been of no help. Perhaps the problem is with me. I am an ex-computer programmer with a BS in physics (with honors) from Caltech, a year towards a PhD in physics from MIT (five A's and one B), and have an M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. Maybe I am just not smart enough to use this program. My suggestion: Eschew Obfuscation and buy a different program.
Rating: 
Summary: Simple, effective, limited
Review: This program works, and works well for all external SCSI
devices. Read that again carefully: external SCSI devices. Got that new mac with the DVD-R/CD-RW drive, not supported. Got floppies: Fine
Got a supported (and the list is long) external SCSI CD-RW: fine
Got an external Jaz/Zip/HD on that SCSI bus: fine. Don't have a SCSI bus in that new 867Mhz G4: sorry, get one.
But if you have that external SCSI device, this is the simple,
effective and easy way to backup.
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