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Retrospect: Is This a Better Backup?

by Al Gordon
September 6, 2001

Dantz Development wants to establish a new paradigm for backup software with its Retrospect lineup. (Hey, gimmie a break--I have been trying to work "paradigm" into an article for five years.)

The premise of most backup programs is disaster prevention: a hard drive fails, a virus wipes out data, or you erase the Jones project files only to discover that you still need them. The emphasis generally is on enabling the user to get back the latest and greatest version of any missing file when that file has been corrupted or erased.

Retrospect, just out in version 5.5, focuses instead on taking "snapshots" of the state of your system at the time a particular backup ran.

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