Oct 8, 2008
Creating and saving the backups
for every bit of work you do, is definitely a must.There are times when
you had accidentally deleted some files and there is no way to recover them unless we take regular backups. Today I am talking about one such backup tool, Shadow Copy is a simple tool to meet your day-today backup needs.
Shadow copy is not only extremely simple but its so user friendly
tool that makes it pleasant to keep backups. Once you have downloaded
the installation file, run it, to get Shadow Copy on your system.
What all can be done with Shadow Copy
- You can easily copy the content of an entire hard disk to another disk, in one click.
- If you make a copy of your ‘C:\’ (the drive in which your OS is installed), Shadow Copy is able to copy all the system files as well, and if required at any point of time, you can boot your system from this location, by making the new partition active in ‘Windows Disk Management’.
- Shadow Copy can also be used via the command prompt, batch or task scheduler. The available switches are:
| Switch | Description | |
| /s | copy subdirectories | |
| /j | parse junctions | |
| /i | ignore errors | |
| /y | overwrite existing files | |
| /r | overwrite read-only files |
- The interface is simple as shown below, for every backup operation you just need to specify few things :-
Taking Backups of your Files and Folders
- Specify the location of files to be copied.
- Specify the locations where the backup is to be saved.
- Choose the options, as shown above.
- Hit the ‘Copy’ button to get the backup.
I found this tool very convenient and useful. The feature which
allows copying the system files to give you a fully functional backup
is pretty appealing. Apart from these features, Shadow Copy is fast and light weight, too. Give it a try, and share your experiences, do share with us, which tool you use for backups.