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It can combine multiple hard disks into a single logical backup
device—no need for a RAID or other special hardware or software.
It's one of very few Mac backup programs that can create a bootable
duplicate
over a network
(the others being Carbon Copy Cloner,
ChronoSync, and Synk). It also has good support for tape drives,
magneto-optical drives, and other storage media that are common
in large businesses (though not so much among consumers).
Retrospect comes in several versions. For the purposes of this
book, the one you're most likely to care about is Retrospect Desktop
($119, or $249 with a 1-year support and maintenance agreement—
but you can save 25 percent with the
Retrospect Desktop Coupon
at
the back of this topic), which includes three licenses for Retrospect
Client—meaning it can back up the Mac it's installed on plus up to
three other computers. Additional licenses for Retrospect Client,
should you need them, start at $49 each. Retrospect Single Server
and Retrospect Multi Server are designed to handle larger numbers
of clients (and are correspondingly more expensive) and perform
multiple backup and restore operations at once, but otherwise share
the same features as the Desktop version.
