Overview

StorageCraft ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3 provides fast and reliable disaster recovery, data protection and system migration for Windows desktops and laptops. ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3 provides hardware independent restore for physical to physical system (P2P) recovery. ShadowProtect Desktop 3 also supports conversion from physical systems to virtual environments (P2V), virtual environments to physical systems (V2P) and virtual environments to virtual environments (V2V).

ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3 is complementary to VMWare™ Workstation and Microsoft™ Hyper-V for fast and reliable disaster recovery. VMWare Workstation includes full support for ShadowProtect backup image files for simple conversion from physical systems to virtual environments.

Features

ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3 provides the following benefits:

• Supports Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7.
• Bare metal recovery of Windows desktops and laptops in minutes.
• Restore or migrate backup images to and from physical systems and virtual
  environments (P2V, V2P and V2V).
• Hardware independent restore of backup images to dissimilar hardware (P2P).
• Schedule automatic full and incremental backups.
• Bootable recovery CD provides automatic hardware detection and network support.
• Simple view to quickly recover files and folders or update backup images.
• Compress and encrypt backup images for efficiency and security.
• Save backup images to USB, Firewire, NAS, SAN or any network location.

Schedule automatic backups
ShadowProtect provides an easy to use scheduler so that point-in-time backups can be taken automatically while you work. Schedule full or incremental backups of your system and data.

Save backups to any location
ShadowProtect backups can be saved to USB, FireWire, an attached storage device or network location.

View backup files for quick file and folder recovery
ShadowProtect point-in-time backups can be assigned a drive letter as a read-write or read-only volume. The mounting features of ShadowProtect allow you to restore files and folders or update an existing point-in-time backup.

Perform remote or bare metal system recovery
The ShadowProtect Recovery CD allows you to perform a bare metal system restore in minutes. The CD also includes a remote control tool to allow you to remotely recover your system and data without physically visiting the system.

Requirements

Minimum System Requirements
• Must meet the minimum operating system requirements
• Memory:  At least 256 MB of RAM
• Hard Disk: 12 MB of free space
• CD-ROM or DVD drive

Supported Operating Systems
ShadowProtect supports Windows 32-or 64-bit operating systems
• Windows Vista Home Basic
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows XP Media Center
• Windows XP Professional (SP2 or above)
• Windows XP Home (SP2 or above)