Retrospect V.15 Backup and Protection Software for Windows or Mac

Retrospect, Inc. introduced email protection and AI features with Retrospect 15 for Windows and Mac.

With email protection, homes and businesses are able to protect their email accounts from accidents, password errors, or malicious deletion, as well as the ability to migrate email from one service to another. Retrospect 15 also includes BackupBot, a collection of features combining AI and personalized data protection analytics, in addition to modular Data Hooks in a dashboard, open source GitHub repositories for extending functionality, and remote backup support for remote employees.

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Email protection and migration
Email systems for businesses have migrated from local servers to cloud services, but those services are prone to the same data loss scenarios as a local email server. Accidents happen. An employee might delete the wrong email or lose access to their account, or a rogue user could remove everything from the system. Email systems in the cloud require the same level of data protection as local email servers, and with Retrospect 15, it’s easy.

• Data protection – Customers can use the firm’s software to backup their IMAP email accounts to a local or cloud destination, and they can restore a lost email or account with a couple clicks.

• Email migration – Migrating from one service to another has never been easier. backup the account with the company’s software, and simply restore it to next account. Retrospect copies every email and attachment over.

• Support for major services – Firm’s email protection supports all major email services, including Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL.

• Two free – Every edition of the software includes two email account licenses, so customers can start protecting their email immediately.

Remote backup
Remote backup with the software enables organizations to protect both employees in the office and remote employees across the world. Enabling remote backup requires minimal configuration on the server-side network and no changes for the remote employee’s network, and it supports proactive scripts-with ProactiveAI-for backup when employees are online and on-demand restore for employees to get files back without assistance.

BackupBot
BackupBot combines AI and personalized data protection analytics to embed more intelligence in Retrospect’s data protection strategies. The software is easier to set up, more intelligent at scheduling backups to optimize the backup window, and better at predicting future storage needs.

• One-click backup – With one click, BackupBot will automatically configure a Proactive script with all available sources to a selected destination. An entire backup strategy in a single click.

• ProactiveAI – With ProactiveAI, backup scripts will optimize the backup window for the entire environment based on a decision tree algorithm and linear regression to ensure every source is protected as often as possible.

• Storage predictions – The dashboard includes a ‘Storage Predictions’ section that uses a linear regression algorithm on past backups to estimate future storage growth, helping customers understand their future storage usage based on current consumption.

Further enhancements for Retrospect 15
Retrospect 15 also includes the following features and performance enhancements.

• Data Hooks – Data Hooks are extensible dashboard plug-ins to summarize every important aspect of what Retrospect is doing, from storage to ongoing activities to overall protection.

• Open source on GitHub – Customers can customize their environment with Data Hooks, Script Hooks, and Selectors available as open source code on GitHub.

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Retrospect Virtual 2018
Retrospect Virtual is now more capable with support for larger environments through replication and redirection. Management Console replication allows administrators to have a standby server running in case of hardware failure on the main backup server, and Management Console redirection enables a server to load balance incoming backup requests. In addition, Retrospect Virtual 2018 extends its data protection to Linux guest VMs.

Retrospect web console
The Web Console is the next step for the software interface, with the console running as a web application and the engine as a background service. As a web application, customers will be able to access it from any Internet-connected device, including a console application, a desktop browser, and a mobile browser on iOS and Android. A preview release for Windows and Mac will be available in May 2018.

Pricing and availability:

• Retrospect 15 for Windows and Mac are available. These versions are free updates for customers with current qualifying annual support and maintenance contracts and are available for purchase from resellers or the company website as an electronic download. It is available in six languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.

• Pricing ranges from $49 for Retrospect Solo, which protects a single non-server computer, to $3,999 for Retrospect Multi Server Premium, which protects as many Mac, Windows, and Linux servers and PCs as your bandwidth and storage capacity will allow. Upgrades range from $69 to $2,509. (All prices listed above are MSRP) Special pricing is available for education, government, and non-profit settings.