EMC® Retrospect® 7.5 for Windows is designed to deliver automated, reliable, cost-effective protection for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and the distributed enterprise. Retrospect has won numerous awards and broad industry acclaim by addressing the unique challenges faced by SMBs and distributed enterprises in these critical areas:
- Protects servers, business-critical applications, desktops, and notebooks
- Backs up Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris, and NetWare computers to a Windows computer
- Easy to set up and manage
- No need for weekly full backups
- Simplified management of backup media
- Disk-to-disk-to-tape backups
- Highest level of security for backup media
- Disaster recovery
Computers that run Retrospect
A single server running Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server (SP2 or greater); Windows Server 2003 Standard or Enterprise editions (32-bit and x64); Windows NT 4.0 Server (SP6 or greater); Windows Server 2003 R2; Windows Storage Server 2003
A single server running Microsoft Small Business Server 4.5, 2000, or 2003
A single desktop or notebook computer running Windows XP (32-bit and x64), Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 98/Me
Networked clients protected by Retrospect
Unlimited number of desktop and notebook computers running Windows XP (32-bit and x64); Windows 2000 Professional; Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (SP6 or greater); Windows 95/98/98 SE/Me, Mac® OS 7.1 or later, Mac OS X 10.1.5 or later; Red Hat Linux, SUSE LINUX, and Solaris
Unlimited number of servers running Windows Server 2003 Standard or Enterprise editions (32-bit and x64); Windows Server 2003 R2; Windows Small Business Server 2000 or 2003; Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server (SP2 or greater); Windows Storage Server 2003; and Windows NT 4.0 Server (SP6 or greater); Mac OS X Server; NetWare 5.1, 6.0, 6.5 * This is an Optional Add-on. *
Backup devices supported by Retrospect*
Hard drives, NAS devices, CD/DVD devices
Tape drives, autoloaders, and libraries
System Requirements for Dantz Retrospect 7.5 Single Server
Windows computers that run Retrospect
- Intel Pentium class processor (1.5 GHz or more recommended)
- 512 MB RAM (1 GB or more recommended)
- Network backup requires TCP/IP networking
- Hard disk with 5 GB free
- Retrospect Multi Server, Single Server, and Disk-to-Disk: Windows NT 4.0 Workstation or Server (SP6 or greater); Windows 2000 Professional, Server, or Advanced Server (SP2 or greater); Windows Server 2003 Standard or Enterprise editions (32-bit and x64); Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit and x64), Windows Small Business Server 4.5, 2000, or 2003; Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2; Windows Storage Server 2003; Windows Storage Server 2003 R2; Windows XP (32-bit and x64); Windows Vista (32-bit)
- Retrospect Small Business Server, Standard and Premium editions: Windows Small Business Server 4.5, 2000, 2003, or 2003
- R2 Retrospect can run in a Windows environment using VMware Workstation 5, 5.5.1, VMware Server 1.0, and VMware ESX Server 2.5,
Retrospect clients
- Note: Retrospect Single Server, Small Business Server, and Disk-to-Disk editions require the purchase of a server client license in order to back up a server client.
Windows clients
- Windows Vista (32-bit)
- Windows XP (32-bit and x64)
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (SP6 or greater)
- Windows 95/98/98 SE/Me
- Windows Server 2003 Standard or Enterprise editions (32-bit and x64)
- Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit and x64)
- Windows Small Business Server 2000, 2003 or 2003 R2
- Windows Storage Server 2003; Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
- Windows NT 4.0 Server (SP6 or greater)
- The Retrospect client can run in a Windows environment using VMware Workstation 5, 5.5.1, VMware Server 1.0, and VMware ESX Server 2.5
- Mac® OS 7.1 or later, Mac OS X 10.1.5 or later
Linux clients
- Red Hat Linux 7.3, 8.x, 9.x; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- SUSE LINUX 8.0, 9.2, 9.3 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Novell Linux Desktop 9
Solaris clients
- Solaris 8, 9, 10 (SPARC platform only)
NetWare clients
VMware clients
- Supported client operating systems running in VMware Workstation 5 and 5.5.1, and VMware ESX Server 2.5 and 3.0 environments