G2

David B.

IT Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/17/2019

"An honest review after more than a decade of use commercial and countless emergency restores"

5/5

What do you like best about Retrospect?

Efficient, fast and works! Retrospect logs everything so you can see at a glance what's happening and what has been completed. I've used other solutions but always came back to Retrospect after the very pretty alternatives failed to restore and left us in a mess. Retrospect has always done its job and never failed and that's virtually unheard of in 12 years of software use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Retrospect?

I appreciate the user interface does take a little getting to know, but only because it's very capable and therefore a little more complex. I think this has got a lot simpler in the latest version but I'm so familiar with it now I'm not the best person to ask! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Retrospect:

This might not be the cheapest solution but in my opinion it's the best. The reason I'm leaving this review is because I have used Retrospect for long enough to say it's reliable. More importantly reliable at restoring 1+ year old data from old backup sets, and that's only something you find out years later! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Retrospect solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've used a few different software solutions to backup our company IT systems with multiple workstations and the biggest issue with other solutions has been their consistent ability to restore. The only reason we create backups is in the (very real) possibility someone deletes an entire project folder or saves a file after removing a chunk of work. Retrospect has allowed us to easily grab one file or folder from the progressive backup, back in time until I find the copy before the accident happened. In the 12 years I've used this software I can safely say it's restored 100% of the time and that's why I have continued to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.