05-13-2008, 01:24 AM
I recently acquired several Maxtor One Touch II external FW 800 drives at an auction. They came with a CD which has Retrospect Express on it. Looks like it's version 6.0, which should work through Tiger (my G5 still runs Tiger) and it looks like there's an update (6.1) which should run under Leopard. According to the User Guide, I can set it up so that pushing the button on it will make a bootable backup, and it seems pretty customizable. It can do a "smart" backup, which will only backup files changed since the last backup (like SuperDuper).
It's been a long time since I used Retrospect... I believe it was under OS 9 when I had a DDS2 tape drive. Wasn't the easiest software to use, but it was pretty customizable, and it saved my bacon at least once.
So, my question is: Is it worth using? I have two other Maxtor One Touch drives, but they came with Maxtor's own backup software, which as I recall sucked. If I could actually use the buttons on my drives, and Retrospect Express worked as advertised, I'd consider using it instead of SuperDuper for my backups. Any feedback is appreciated.
It's been a long time since I used Retrospect... I believe it was under OS 9 when I had a DDS2 tape drive. Wasn't the easiest software to use, but it was pretty customizable, and it saved my bacon at least once.
So, my question is: Is it worth using? I have two other Maxtor One Touch drives, but they came with Maxtor's own backup software, which as I recall sucked. If I could actually use the buttons on my drives, and Retrospect Express worked as advertised, I'd consider using it instead of SuperDuper for my backups. Any feedback is appreciated.