SnapBack protects your data automatically 24/7–without ANY action from you.
SnapBack allows you to travel back through time to use, copy, and restore any file or folder. You can typically reboot and revert your entire computer or server to an earlier point in time, even when it won’t boot properly.
Hardware rarely fails today, SnapBack protects PCs and servers against everything else.
CDP’s SnapBack is a unique and highly efficient data backup/data recovery solution that provides PC and server users peace of mind with their file backup needs. SnapBack works to protect a user’s computer or server without sacrificing system performance. With support for 1,000 snapshots, SnapBack offers any individual user multiple copies of their files. No external storage is required and the software works quietly in the background, consuming minimal system resources.
SnapBack works ideally for a number of situations users commonly experience. SnapBack works to protect and restore data in the event of system corruption, software corruption, and even in the simple case of accidental file deletion. With support for 1,000 snapshots, each a true image backup, a user can select any number of previous system states in a matter of seconds. This means that data and system files can be restored efficiently and without the use of any external device.
SnapBack fully supports and is integrated into Microsoft’s VSS, becoming the provider for VSS. However, SnapBack significantly augments the power of VSS with support for 1,000 snapshots and an easy file/system recovery process.
Included in SnapBack is the Area-51 Virtual-PC feature, which allows a user or users to temporarily run their machine (surf the web, try new software, etc) without writes to their active volume. This is an efficient Virtual-PC that protects a machine in a shared environment or if there’s the chance that user activity could cause significant system corruption. Upon a reboot, a user can selectively copy files they used during their Area-51 time to their active volume.
A snapshot is a point-in-time representation of the volume at the time it was created. When reading a snapshot, SnapBack normally reads directly from the live volume. First it will determine if the data has changed; meaning it detects whether the data is located in the DHD, or if it is on the live volume. For data that has changed, SnapBack inserts the original data held in the DHD and, where no changes have occurred, SnapBack reads directly from the live volume. All the snapshots are available at all times from Windows Explorer by using right-click on a file or folder, or exposing them all in the snapshot folder.
Processes that are accessing a snapshot, like backup or reverting, are assigned a lower process priority than the normal read/write operations. This action, known as True Throttling™, delivers the maximum system performance to clients while accomplishing these activities in the background. Although creation of the SnapBack images happens very quickly, reverting your whole system volume image will vary from system to system from a minute or two to as much as an hour in extreme cases. SnapBack is specifically designed for minimal impact to system performance and is generally unnoticeable.
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