As of late July 2009, this is STILL BETA . . . EMC duped Retro 6.x users into 'buying' 8.x several months ago. Really! Paying to test something as critical as a backup app in the guise of a usable program. Check the EMC/Retro forums. 8.x is promising, but still has many bugs. Most of the EMC forum monitors are very nice, patient and helpful people, but they don't comment on this unfinished release. EMC depends on a large public user group for reporting myriad ongoing problems and fixes, but it still has too many crawly things to be a reliable release. They come out with a new build every 6 - 8 weeks, but it's still not what would be considered a product for sale; just BETA.

I gave up on Retrospect about one year ago. The constant driver issues, lack of speed, crashing servers (panics) were too much. They waited too long to write new software. PLUS, the fact that 8.x DOESN'T support old data sets is a deal breaker for me. I don't want to run a broken 6.x version and a beta 8.x version on any computer.

I am getting ready to upgrade to BRU 2.x from 1.2. It is a bit more advanced but it is solid.