We were pleasantly surprised at how quickly ShadowMaker imaged our Windows and system reserved partitions: well under 5 minutes for about 120GB worth of data.
The beta and pay versions can also back up from remote PCs on the local network, given the proper permissions. That said, we often recommend that users take advantage of the clean install on their new PC and reinstall programs, then simply copy the data back. If your old PC died, for instance, and you want to move the old files to a new PC, this can be important. Incremental backups are faster, but differential backups restore faster.Īnother significant beta/pro feature is the universal restore, which means you can restore to hardware that’s not identical or extremely similar to the device from which you backed up. As noted above, a differential backup contains all the data changed since the last full backup, while incremental backups contain only the data that’s changed since the last backup of any type. One beta/pro feature of interest to the average user is the ability to create full (other than the original) and differential backups. These features are available in the 3.0 beta, which will be pay eventually.
