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EMC Buying Dantz

Posted by pudge on from the mmm-backups dept.

Bug-Y2K writes "Looks like storage giant EMC, is buying longtime Mac software company Dantz Develpment. Dantz, makers of Retrospect have been the leader in backup technology for the Mac OS since dinosaurs roamed the earth. Mindshare has been slipping of late but the product is known for being better at restores than anything out there. I wonder what lies in store for Retrospect now?"

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  1. I find this funny. by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While Dantz is _the_ Mac backup software company, the reason why EMC is interested is because Retrospect for Windows is the only software with the exception of Veritas that can back up live NTFS filesystems, with or without Volume Shadow Copy support.

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    1. Re:I find this funny. by hype7 · · Score: 3, Insightful
      While Dantz is _the_ Mac backup software company, the reason why EMC is interested is because Retrospect for Windows is the only software with the exception of Veritas that can back up live NTFS filesystems, with or without Volume Shadow Copy support.


      Well that's concerning, because if they're buying it for Windows features... well, the Mac stuff may be "de-prioritised" (or insert suitable euphemism here), leaving us without forward development of the main backup software for the platform...

      -- james
  2. Retrospect for Windows by sasha328 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well that's concerning, because if they're buying it for Windows features... well, the Mac stuff may be "de-prioritised"

    Doesn't always have to be that way. Don't forget that Dantz was already developing it for both platforms. The good thing about Retrospect is that it worked pretty much the same way on both platforms. Also another reason for Retrospect's success on Windows is it's ease of use compared to Windows Backup (at least the one that came with NT4)

  3. Re:Dantz Patents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is rumored that OmniGroup's OmniBackup was killed over this patent issue.

    That's no rumor: Dantz came right out and said it at the time.

    Put this in your file of "patents that should be invalidated, because what they cover is obvious to one skilled in the art." Keeping a catalog of what you backed up? Give me a break.