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EMC Retrospect 7.5 for Windows

New Features

  1. Usability improved by the introduction of Getting Started, Backup, Restore and Duplication Wizards

  2. Individual Exchange Public Folders can be backed up and restored (individual mailboxes could be backed up and restored in previous versions)

  3. Policy based data grooming helps prevent backups exceeding the disk capacity of a disk assigned to a backup set

  4. Staged Backup from Disk to Disk to Tape (D2D2T) allows faster backups and restores, whilst still allowing media to be removed from site for disaster recovery purposes

  5. Virtual Full Backups create a consolidated backup from incremental backups for off-site storage or redundancy, without having to backup the computers again

  6. Improved backup set transfers for redundancy, only the files that are required to make the 2 sets identical are now moved across

  7. Additional WORM support for SAIT, SDLT (DLTIce), LTO tape drives for companies using WORM to meet regulatory requirements

  8. Fibre Channel and iSCSI tape backup devices are now supported

  9. New options for restores and duplicates, which will replace existing files on hard drives only if the copy in the backup set is newer.

  10. A new option where files will only be restored if they have been deleted from the hard drive and exist in the backup set

  11. Larger volumes – up to 4 million files per volume

  12. Improved tape management

  13. Improved catalogue file repairs

  14. AES-128 encryption over networks and to tape

  15. More details of successful and failed backups included in email reports to the administrator

  16. Tape drives health can now be monitored by support for TapeAlert and DLTSage

  17. Retrospect events are now integrated into Windows Event Log

  18. New Selectors available

  19. Skip to new media option where the contents of each session are placed on new media, rather than the free space left on the last media used

  20. Speed of backups and restores improved due to faster matching times for large volumes

  21. New Taskbar Icon and hot key

  22. DVD double layer media and drives now supported

  23. Other minor improvements

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