I find this thread depressing as I REALLY REALLY wanted Retrospect to be usable at the facility I work in.
Like many core users, I have used Retrospect on the Mac for many years. I have been a loyal defender. It is frustrating that in a market with very few viable alternatives, it seems to rely on this loyalty.
It seems like the frequent change in ownership in recent years has taken it's toll and it is not a product that has been given any development budget or road-map, to fit into today's changing IT enviroments.
I for one am finding it very difficult to soldier on with a product that just doesn't work the way I need it too.
BTW My number 1 gripe (by far) is performance. For example A terminal RAID-RAID copy running at over 400MB/s through Retrospect can only manage 60MB/s on the same 8-core Mac! WTF !?!? This 60MB/s is also seems to be the threshold of our LTO5. At least it's consistently slow!
This problem does not seem to affect Retrospects main competitors - BRU + Prestore.
Ironically, the PC Retrospect V7.5-7.7 are flawed, but vastly superior.
Go figure
Im running Retrospect workgroup 8.2 on Intel 8-core MP with 4Gb fibre + 6Gb SAS. What a waste.