12-31-2006, 07:33 AM
Retrospect is one of those companies that reminds me of Quark: they either never saw all of the money they leaving on the table, or they didn't care. In the case of Retrospect, all it would've taken would have been to create a GUI that made logical sense.
Probably the best eBook ever written on backing up (Take Control of Mac OS X Backups, by Joe Kissell) eventually gave Retrospect the highest rating of all of the dozen backup apps, but even he talked about how scary-bad its interface was.
I stopped using it years ago because it made me nervous. Actually, I always felt stupid, like I could never quite be sure if I was doing things correctly. Drove me nuts and I just didn't need the pressure. Switched to CCC and then SuperDuper, and those work fine.
Read Joe's e-book if you get the chance. It's damn good and really goes into the pros and cons of Retrospect.
Probably the best eBook ever written on backing up (Take Control of Mac OS X Backups, by Joe Kissell) eventually gave Retrospect the highest rating of all of the dozen backup apps, but even he talked about how scary-bad its interface was.
I stopped using it years ago because it made me nervous. Actually, I always felt stupid, like I could never quite be sure if I was doing things correctly. Drove me nuts and I just didn't need the pressure. Switched to CCC and then SuperDuper, and those work fine.
Read Joe's e-book if you get the chance. It's damn good and really goes into the pros and cons of Retrospect.