EMC® Retrospect® for Windows provides powerful yet easy-to-use data protection for your servers, 24x7 applications, desktops, and notebooks. It protects your business from data loss due to user error, computer failure, or site-wide disasters. Retrospect protects millions of computers world-wide and consistently earns top awards and broad industry acclaim for its unique patented technology.

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EMC® Retrospect® for Macintosh runs on a Macintosh backup computer and protects networked servers, desktops, and notebooks running the latest Macintosh operating systems including Mac OS X Tiger, as well as desktops and notebooks running Windows and Red Hat Linux.

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EMC® Insignia Solution for Data Protection
EMC Insignia delivers a complete hardware and software solution that enables small and medium businesses (SMBs) to achieve fast, reliable, easy-to-manage data protection for all their computers.

This solution takes advantage of the speed and reliability of the new EMC CLARiiON AX150 disk storage array and the performance and convenience of EMC Retrospect 7.5 for Windows backup and recovery software. Retrospect automatically protects data on networked desktops, notebooks, and servers and streams backup data to the CLARiiON AX150’s cost-effective, high-capacity RAID storage. Set up is easy. Retrospect’s patented technology automatically adjusts backup operations to ensure all computers are regularly protected. And automated disk grooming ensures sufficient backup capacity.

For day-to-day restores, Retrospect rapidly recovers data from the AX150. For offsite data archiving and disaster recovery, Retrospect simplifies copying backups from the AX150 to tape and uses government-certified AES media encryption to prevent unauthorized access.

With EMC Insignia Solution for Data Protection, SMBs can fully capitalize on the performance of disk and the portability of tape to achieve a complete, yet simple-to-manage data protection strategy. Get more information on the solution.

EMC® Insignia Solution for Exchange Protection
EMC® Insignia Solution for Exchange enables SMBs to quickly implement a business-class Exchange storage and protection strategy without straining IT resources or budgets. The solution combines the speed and reliability of the new EMC CLARiiON® AX150 RAID disk storage array with the performance and convenience of EMC Retrospect® 7.5 for Windows backup and recovery software.

The AX150 provides reliable, scalable storage for Exchange data and a fast, flexible, and cost-effective destination for Exchange backups. To guard against hardware failure, virus, user error, or site disaster, Retrospect protects 24x7 Exchange servers while they are online and can restore data down to the message level. Backups are stored on the AX150 for fast local restores. For archiving and disaster recovery, tape copies can be easily created and encrypted for secure offsite storage. Get more information on the solution.

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Requirements

Retrospect for Windows

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, Windows Small Business Server 4.5, 2000, or 2003; Windows Storage Server 2003; Windows XP (32-bit and x64)
• Retrospect Small Business Server, Standard and Premium editions: Windows Small Business Server 2000 or 2003
• Retrospect can run in a Windows environment using VMWare Workstation 5, 5.5.1 or VMWare ESX Server 2.5. Backups can be performed to disk or single tape drives.

Windows clients

• 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
• Windows Small Business Server 2000 or 2003
• Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server (SP2 or greater)
• Windows Storage Server 2003
• Windows NT 4.0 Server (SP6 or greater)*

Macintosh clients

• 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
• SUSE LINUX 8.0, 9.2, 9.3
• Novell Linux Desktop 9

Solaris clients

• Solaris 8, 9

NetWare clients*

• NetWare 5.1, 6.0, 6.5

VMWare Clients

• Supported client operating systems running in VMWare Workstation 5 and 5.5.1, and VMWare ESX Server 2.5 environments.

Supported backup devices

• SCSI/Fibre Channel/iSCSI/ATAPI/USB/IEEE 1394 tape drives, tape autoloaders, and tape library systems including AIT, DAT, DLT, LTO, Travan, and VXA (Disk-to-Disk edition does not back up to tape.)
• Local hard disks, remote servers, and NAS devices
• SCSI/ATAPI/USB/IEEE 1394 Writable CD/DVD drives
• Removable disks including REV, Zip, DVD-RAM, MO, and SuperDisk (LS-120)
• Search our storage device compatibility database for specific device support

* 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.

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Retrospect for Macintosh

Macintosh computers that run Retrospect

• PowerPC processor
• 128 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended) for Mac OS 9
• 256 MB of RAM (512 recommended) for Mac OS X
• Hard disk with at least 500 MB free
• Network backup requires TCP/IP networking
• Mac OS 9, Mac OS X 10.1.5 through Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, or Mac OS X Server 10.1.5 through Mac OS X Server 10.4 "Tiger"*

Macintosh clients

• PowerPC processor
• Mac OS 7.1 or later with Open Transport TCP/IP networking
• Desktop and notebook clients: Mac OS X 10.1.5 though Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
• Server clients (Retrospect Server edition is required to back up server clients): Mac OS X Server 10.1.5 through Mac OS X Server 10.4 "Tiger"

Windows clients

• Intel Pentium class processor
• Windows 95/98/98 SE/Me/NT Workstation/2000 Professional/XP
• Uses Windows built-in TCP/IP networking
• Retrospect for Windows business editions are required to back up Windows server clients

Linux clients

• Intel Pentium class processor
• Red Hat Linux 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
• TCP/IP networking

Supported backup devices

• SCSI/Fibre Channel/ATAPI/USB/FireWire tape drives and tape autoloaders including AIT, DAT, DLT, LTO, Travan, and VXA
• Internal hard drives; FireWire and USB external hard drives
• SCSI/ATAPI/USB/FireWire Writable CD/DVD drives including CD-R, CD-W, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
• Removable disks including REV, Zip, DVD-RAM, MO, and SuperDisk (LS-120)

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