tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5710205.post6732160993072668706..comments2024-02-08T11:00:53.069-06:00Comments on Gordon's Tech: Retrospect 8.2 for OS X fails my latest review -- because it's been abandonedJGFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580785981874040314noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5710205.post-38332895885825188162011-07-06T02:57:44.361-05:002011-07-06T02:57:44.361-05:00pretty pissed that i paid for licences for this.
i...pretty pissed that i paid for licences for this.<br />its been apain tog et working and for the first time i had a need to use a bakup for a restore. and all i get is a silent failure.<br />useless software, imho, where is the enterprise class stuff for OS X? i remember solstice backup very fondlyflowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01125760969179071647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5710205.post-50339570705523150132010-11-23T16:45:52.132-06:002010-11-23T16:45:52.132-06:00I am a Mac consultant (since 1986) and have been u...I am a Mac consultant (since 1986) and have been using Retrospect since it was Dantz Retrospect. How a useful and venerable piece of software could end up so poorly implemented in version 8 is beyond belief. This powerful, versatile and useful software is now unreliable, difficult to use, and buggy.<br />Stay away.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10465438720144528026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5710205.post-19609826757238149432010-11-06T22:45:58.892-05:002010-11-06T22:45:58.892-05:00The problem with a clone solution is that it's...The problem with a clone solution is that it's a clone. So if iPhoto 9 wipes out your photos at 10pm, and your SD backup runs at 10:10pm, you've lost everything.<br /><br />I have a post on cloud solutions and their issues:<br /><br />http://tech.kateva.org/2010/02/online-backup-security-problem-its-not.htmlJGFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580785981874040314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5710205.post-70789724497041995082010-11-06T22:33:00.198-05:002010-11-06T22:33:00.198-05:00I'll never abandon SuperDuper; I think it'...I'll never abandon SuperDuper; I think it's great. I use TM, Jungle Disk with versions and think about using CrashPlan, but really if I only had one it would be the clone from SuperDuper. I guess it saved me on a bad Mac OS X update once. Dropbox is good for it's sync, not necessarily back up capabilities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com