Drive Backup 7.0

The complete hard drive image gives you the backup of the whole system. Hard drive image contains all data files, system and hidden files, compressed and encrypted files and even boot records of the source hard drive.

You can choose between two hard drive imaging modes: Quick Copy or Sector-by-Sector.

Quick Copy mode is the time-saving mode used by default for hard drive imaging. Only sectors currently containing data are included into such a hard drive image (FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3 FS). This mode also saves memory required for keeping the backup image and useful when you need to backup data files (documents, databases, pictures etc).

Sector-by-Sector mode of hard drive image creation lets you to copy all the sectors of the source hard disk: used, unused, marked as bad (if any). This mode is useful for partition-bounded software backup. After restore from this hard drive image the target hard drive immediately becomes bootable and workable (see "Deploy new hard drive / clone hard drive" chapter). In this mode the program can copy or move partition of any file system.

Main functionality of hard drive imaging provided by Drive Backup solution:

Create hard drive image (backup) of the whole hard disk or separate partition.

Create an image of running operating system without interrupting it: HotBackup technology (Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 only). More info...

Backup (create drive image) to various media: local drives including hidden partitions of different file systems (FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3FS), removable media, directly on recordable media, external storage, network drives.

Forget about backup headache with Scheduler - built-in tool for scheduling recurring operations (regular incremental backup, for example). More info...

Incremental backup: update existing hard drive image with changes performed since previous backup, thus reducing time for creating new backups. More info...

When looking for more specific and concise information about product features, please visit the Professional Backup section.