Retrospect Awarded WinList Honors; Retrospect Backup Software Wins High Praise from Winmag.com.Business Editors ORINDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2000 Dantz Development Corporation announced today that Retrospect(R) Server Backup has been added to Winmag.com's prestigious WinList, a compilation of Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) Windows-compatible products that "lead their category...each product is the best." Winmag.com's inclusion of Retrospect Backup was based on the software's performance in rigorous testing. The review stated: "Retrospect was faster than Backup.exe in every case, and had an eight to forty percent speed increase over Veritas Backup Exec Backup Exec is backup software for Microsoft Windows environments currently developed by Symantec. Backup Exec has a long history of being sold from one company to another. V4." Backup Exec is a product of Veritas Software Veritas Software Corp. was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California. . One of Retrospect's greatest strengths is its ability to quickly and reliably restore any drive or directory with only a single pass through the backup media, even when restoring from multiple, incremental backups See backup types. (operating system) incremental backup - A kind of backup that copies all files which have changed since the date of the previous backup. The first backup of a file system should include all files - a "full backup". Call this level 0. . The reviewer agreed: "To my knowledge, this type of easy generational restore requires enormous amounts of work on virtually all competitive software." Winmag.com tested backup and restore operations with several devices, all of which Retrospect supported perfectly. Retrospect includes a huge library of custom device drivers and is able to configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. itself automatically for any connected device. Their reviewer wrote: "Retrospect found the drive immediately (Backup.exe cannot), and offered a full view of the tapes in the auto-changer, and what it found on each. This is unusual, as most backup programs Software that copies data from a single machine or from selected computers in a network to a secondary storage medium. Backups can be scheduled at periodic intervals, or individual files can be automatically backed up right after they have been updated. don't understand auto-changers until taught." The full Winmag.com review of Retrospect Server Backup can be found on their website at: http://www.winmag.com/reviews/software/1999/1299/1228_a.htm. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AVAILABLE Dantz Development Corporation offers Retrospect Desktop Backup, Retrospect Workgroup Backup, and Retrospect Server Backup. For more information on Dantz's better backup software See backup program. (tool, software) backup software - Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. , visit www.betterbackup.com. For more information on Dantz Development Corporation, visit www.dantz.com. Note to Editors: Retrospect is a registered trademark of Dantz Development Corporation. All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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