![]() I recently tried to rename this thread to "Enterprise client-server backup of Macs: Retrospect etc." my OP is too old for me to edit it. That hasn't really happened, but that doesn't make this an invalid experiment.Īs long as David keeps his thoughts on Retrospect confined to this thread, I'm fine with it persisting, even if it realistically has an audience of one. More broadly, I thought: maybe other people would follow this example and pick up the mantle for software or hardware they have a particular knowledge or investment in to create similar threads or discussions. Yes, perhaps "" would make more sense in the grand scheme of things, but as a semi-active (if occasionally controversial) member of this community, I liked the idea of giving DavidH a role and a purpose he could own. ![]() If David's posts could provide some clarity or starting point for that person, then the Ach would have fulfilled an important role. Somewhere, someday, an administrator may inherit a Retrospect setup (which is not as crazy as it sounds-there's still some quantity of old-school Mac shops clinging to software like this due to its long-time legacy in the Mac universe) and have no clue how to get their arms around it because it's just not that common (or desirable) a backup solution anymore. ![]() In our minds, the Ach serves two distinct purposes: As a focus point for discussion on things both practical and thematic to Apple as a company and ecosystem, and as a Google-able source of community-gathered information on Apple, Apple products, and Apple-related hardware and software. Sorry, saw this a ways back and meant to comment on it, but got caught up in other things.ĭavidH has explicit permission from armwt and myself to maintain this (admittedly) blog-like set of posts about Retrospect, despite the micro-narrow appeal. P.P.S.: Updated link in first sentence of my first paragraph the section linked-to is now a separate Wikipedia article. Backing up interactive applications via coordinated snapshots is now a requirement in enterprises, which explains why Retrospect Inc.'s new Retrospect Virtual product-intended as a cheaper competitor for Veeam Backup & Replication, currently doesn't run on Macs at all (therefore I've only briefly mentioned Retrospect Virtual in one P.S. P.S.: It's pretty obvious that the next advance in Mac backup applications is going to be the use of the filesystem snapshotting capability Apple added with APFS. So in my 20th-century view, I think some people still have a need for enterprise client-server backup to local drives, and Retrospect-although its developer is pursuing a "go big or go home" strategy as noted up-thread-is still a good cheap choice for meeting that need. Until 9 October 2018 I lived in one of those areas, because Verizon wouldn't run FiOS into my Manhattan apartment building from the street outside-and Spectrum cable Internet really slows down when multiple users in the building go online. where-per various Ars front-page articles on the beloved Ajit Pai etc.-access to high-speed Internet uploads isn't really available. And, if the enterprise is thinking of backing up to the cloud using a "push" application, its installation may be located in an area of the U.S. However this thread linked to in the preceding paragraph reveals that the limit for one "backup server" Mac or NAS device is only about 20 "clients", because "push" backup applications do not stagger access to the "backup server" destination disk the way client-server backup applications do. As discussed in another thread, the Desktop Edition of Retrospect licensed for 25 "client" machines would cost someone US$570-or US$775 if one of those machines runs macOS Server (this extra cost may not be necessary if someone is running the latest version of macOS Server ).Ī Mac-oriented enterprise installation could instead run such "push" backup applications as Arq or Time Machine (but no longer CrashPlan Local) on its "client" machines. It's also not Tolis BRU-which I summarized in this up-thread post it's only US$1100 but is really oriented toward backing up large-scale media industry files to tape or rack-mounted disks. That's not Archiware P5, which this Product Configurator reveals is US$4340 including the modules that backup "end-points" and allow duplicating backup archive files. I'm talking to anyone who may need-now or in the future-a relatively-cheap enterprise client-server backup application whose "backup server" software runs on a Mac.
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