There’s no pay version on the MiniTool site, just a free beta 3.0 with the pro features. The relationship between the free version and the pro version that’s currently under development is a bit sketchy at this point. If you only need to restore certain files, MiniTool ShadowMaker will mount the image as a virtual hard drive so you can browse it and copy stuff off. The program will cull older ones to make room for the new ones, actually removing backup “sets,” i.e., the full and incremental portions of a prior backup.īeyond choosing the partitions (drive letters) to back up you can manage the level of compression define email alerts and notifications choose between backing up only used sectors or all of them decide to shut down the computer post facto and password-protect the images.Īs mentioned, there’s also boot media with full restore functionality.

This isn’t the same thing as a differential backup, which backs up everything that’s changed since your last full backup, ignoring any partial backups that might have happened in between. You’re free to limit the number of backups. The free version of ShadowMaker performs incremental backup, which backs up any changes since your last backup.

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