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- Free System 7 upgrade to Retrospect|Dantz Development Corporation
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- Contact: Jon Maroney
- Dantz Development
- 1400 Shattuck Ave, Suite #1
- Berkeley, CA 94709
- 415/849-0293
- AppleLink: DANTZ
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- BERKELEY, California -- April, 30, 1991 -- Dantz Development Corporation
- announced today System 7 versions of Retrospect and Retrospect Remote™, their
- Eddy Award winning backup and archiving programs. Version 1.3 provides full
- compatibility with Apple’s System 7, backing up and restoring aliases,
- implementing balloon help and supporting File Sharing and Virtual Memory. The
- maximum archive size has been increased 500 times to 1 Terabyte (1000
- Gigabytes), and new integrity testing increases backup reliability. All owners
- of Version 1.2 will receive a free upgrade within two weeks, while all owners
- of previous versions may upgrade for $35.
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- “We are sending 1.3 as a free upgrade to all owners of Version 1.2 with a
- simple message,” said Dantz Development President, Larry Zulch, “backup before
- you switch to System 7, and backup after you switch to System 7. We’ve made
- Retrospect and Retrospect Remote compatible with both Systems 6 and 7 to make
- the transition as safe and seamless as possible.”
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- The calendar launch and shutdown operations provide for unattended, fully
- automatic backups. Retrospect 1.3 makes full use of System 7.0’s process
- manager and increases its compatibility with Macintosh Virtual Memory.
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- “We are particularly excited about integrating Retrospect with System 7,” said
- Richard Zulch, VP Engineering, “using the Finder to select files simply by
- dragging them to the Retrospect application icon. It doesn’t get any easier
- than that.”
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- Version 1.3 refines and enhances many of Retrospect’s earlier features.
- Retrospect’s ‘snapshot’ capability, the key to automatic restoring even after
- multiple incremental backups, now supports snapshots of up to 240 different
- volumes in a single archive. Retrospect’s archiving features allow the storage
- of seldom used files in an archive, freeing valuable hard disk space. The
- Remotes window, which enables Retrospect to work over the network, now operates
- 20-50 times faster than before while producing far less network traffic.
- Auto-login ensures security by automatically mounting an AppleShare or File
- Sharing volume, performing the backup, and then unmounting it when the backup
- is complete. Remote start-up files can be upgraded over the network from the
- administration machine without manually accessing each remote workstation,
- making the upgrade process smooth and simple. Retrospect’s support of all
- standard storage devices combined with its suite of verification, comparison
- and rebuilding tools provides a complete and automatic backup and archiving
- solution.
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- The suggested retail price of Retrospect and Retrospect Remote remain unchanged
- at $249 and $449 respectively.
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- Dantz Development Corporation was founded in 1984 with the sole mission of
- creating Macintosh software. Headquartered in Berkeley, California, Dantz
- previously developed BoxBack and MegaCopy for the Iomega Corporation, and the
- best-selling DiskFit™ published by SuperMac Technology of Sunnyvale,
- California. Retrospect is marketed under the Dantz Development name and is
- distributed by Ingram Micro and Kenfil in the United States and Ingram Micro
- and Legacy in Canada.
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- This information is provided to the Apple Developer Group by the product's
- developer. Apple cannot warrant any third party's product. Please consult the
- Apple Products & Ref Library, MENU/Software Library, or Redgate Buyer's Guide
- Library on AppleLink, or contact the third-party company directly for more
- information.
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