Retrospect Solo provides personal data protection to one computer and its external hard drives, with support for data backup and migration, email protection and migration, cloud backup, and BackupBot AI.
Retrospect Backup is trusted by over 500,000 homes and businesses in over 100 countries. With broad platform and application support, Retrospect protects every part of your computer environment, on-site and in the cloud. Start your first backup with one click.
Retrospect Solo provides:
Complete Data Protection
Retrospect Backup provides complete protection for every major operating system, virtual environment, application, and email service–with backup, archive, and duplicate features built-in.
1,400,000 smart phones were lost in the United States in 2013, and 600,000 laptops were lost at U.S. airports alone in 2008. With so many devices, you'll eventually forget one. Will you find it again? With Retrospect Backup, you lose your device, not your data. You can restore your backup to a new machine and move forward.
Email Protection
Protect Gmail, Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo, and many others, or migrate from one to another with a couple clicks.
Cloud Backup
Retrospect supports more than twenty cloud storage providers, all seamlessly integrated with zero-knowledge security and no lock-in.
ProtectiveAI
ProactiveAI is the next generation of Retrospect’s Proactive scheduling engine. 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. BackupBot is Retrospect’s first step–with ProactiveAI, Storage Predictions, and 1-Click Backup–toward leveraging that information for better data protection.
Artificial intelligence might seem exotic and complicated, but if you break it down, many machine learning algorithm that fall under that category are straight-forward to understand. ProactiveAI is no different. Under the hood, ProactiveAI’s algorithm is a list of choices (a decision tree) that takes into account past events (linear regression).
Retrospect begins a backup as soon as a source becomes available. If Alice’s laptop was backed up at 2:30pm yesterday, ProactiveAI will attempt to back up her laptop as soon as it comes online today, even if that’s before 2:30pm.
This change corrects a long-standing issue with drift, and for existing customers, this new schedule represents a significant change from previous versions. In the past, Proactive used the "Last Backup Time" to determine when to next back up a source. If Alice’s laptop was backed up at 2:30pm yesterday, an older version of Proactive would wait until 2:30pm today to attempt the next backup, regardless of whether it was idle and Alice’s laptop was available.
Alice might have only opened her laptop at 2:30pm yesterday, but ever other day, she is online at 9am. Without this change, every future backup would have been at 2:30pm or later until she missed a day. Instead, her laptop is protected as soon as it’s available for each backup window. For fine-grain scheduling, customers can use multiple ProactiveAI scripts with different schedules.
Perpetual License
Each copy of Retrospect is a lifetime license for data protection, with no monthly subscription fees and affordable upgrade pricing.
Compared against Microsoft Windows Backup, Solo offers the following features Windows Backup does not:
- File Migration
- Email Protection and Migration
- Cloud Backup for Amazon, Google, Dropbox, and ten others
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Powerful Filtering
- Monitoring Tools
- Detailed Email Reporting
Other features include:
Smart Restore
Retrospect always restores exactly the files that belong on a volume; no unwanted files get restored and later require cleanup.
Flexible Scheduling
Backup, copy, archive, and restore operations in Retrospect can be scheduled to meet any agenda.
Data Deduplication
Retrospect maximizes storage usage by only copying unique files—even across multiple computers—to the backup media.
Powerful Filtering
To include or skip specific files, folders, and volumes, or to back up only specific data to cloud storage, Retrospect includes both built-in and user-definable selectors that filter data based on a multitude of conditions, including file names, dates, and types.
Monitoring Tools
Retrospect integrates with the latest monitoring systems, including Nagios, Slack, and IFTTT.
End-to-End Security
Retrospect supports a variety of encryption algorithms, including AES-256, for both at-rest and in-transit security options.
Scalable Data Protection
As an industry first for file-level backup, Retrospect is certified to back up 1 billion files per backup set, 100 TB of data per backup set, and 50 million files per device.
Monitor on an iPhone
Use the free Retrospect iOS app on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch to keep tabs on backups over Wi-Fi or 3/4G.
