MiniTool ShadowMaker Backup Solution for PCs

Today we are going to check how MiniTool ShadowMaker that can help in our backup tasks & be a one-stop solution for all our recovery needs.

MiniTool ShadowMaker is free backup software and can back up your Windows Operating System, important files/folders, selected partitions, and the whole disk. With a copy of backup, you would be able to restore data once a disaster occurs, like system crash, hard drive failure, and more.It also lets you create a bootable media to restore system to a normal state when a computer fails to boot.

Some of the key features

• System and Disk Backup
• Schedule and Event Trigger Backup
• Differential and Incremental Images
• Bare Metal Recovery and Universal Restore
• WinPE Bootable media builder and PXE server
• Password Protection and AES Encryption
• Clone hard drive for disk backup or for hard drive upgrade.

System Requirements

• Processor Pentium 1 GHz
• 1GB RAM for 32-bit OS
• 2GB RAM for 64-bit OS
• 1.5 GB free disk space

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows 10 (all editions)
• Windows 8 (all editions)
• Windows 7 (all editions)
• Windows XP (all editions)
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2012/2012 R2
• Windows Server 2008/2008 R2
• Windows Server 2003/2003 R2

Supported File Systems

• FAT 16
• FAT32
• NTFS
• Ext2/3
• exFAT

Supported Media

All storage devices that can be recognized by Windows, such as HDD, SSD, USB external disks, Hardware RAID, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Home File Server.

How to Backup Files using MiniTool ShadowMaker

MiniTool ShadowMaker offers solutions to deal with all kinds of backup tasks, including file backup, system backup and disk backup. Here we can see just one feature on how to Backup files using MiniTool

Step #1.Post installation (its straight forward),you can launch Minitool backup software to get the following interface. Then choose Local or Remote to get the main interface by clicking Connect.

Step #2. Under Backup, click Source tab.

Choose required Folder and Files.

Step #3.Choose appropriate Destination (ex.Network folder)

Step #4.Final option is to choose Backup now or Later.

To specify a backup task to run on a regular basis, go to Schedule.

There is also option to backup System,Disk,Partition & Restore options helps to recover file/system/disk to the normal state when the respective backup is created.

MiniTool ShadowMaker not only offers backup solution, but also provides some other useful tools.Check out here!

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