Windows Backup Software – Disk Image Backup for Microsoft Windows

Most Cost-Effective System Image Backup Solution for Windows Servers & Workstations

  • Disk Image backup for Windows Servers & Workstations
  • Backup the entire disk or individual partitions
  • Incremental backups using Changed Block Tracking (CBT)
  • Application-aware backup for Microsoft applications & Oracle
  • End-to-End encryption of the backup data using AES 256 bit encryption algorithm
  • Automated backup verification
  • Support for cross-platform migration (P2V and V2V)
  • Supports bare-metal recovery, instant boot VM and file recovery
  • Store backup data locally (NAS, SAN, etc) or on Cloud (BDRCloud, S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, S3 Compatible storage such as Wasabi, MinIO, etc)
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What is Windows Image Backup?

Windows Image Backup is a process of performing a system image or disk image backup of windows machines. This backup creates a complete copy of an entire system, including the operating system, applications, settings, configurations and files. It also allows you to restore the entire Windows machine from backup incase of any system crash or other disasters.

With a complete Windows Server backup or Windows Endpoint backup, you can restore your entire machine to its previous state, in case of data loss, hardware failure, or other catastrophic events. This provides a reliable and efficient way to protect your entire system and ensure quick recovery with minimal downtime.

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An Overview of Windows Image Backup Solution from BDRSuite

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BDRSuite’s Windows Backup Software provides a cost-effective and comprehensive solution for complete image backup on Windows Servers and Workstations. With the ability to create backups of entire disks or individual volumes, it ensures the protection of all critical data, including files, folders, partition tables, boot sectors, and system files.

Leveraging Microsoft VSS technology, BDRSuite prioritizes data integrity and consistency by offering application-aware backups. In the event of data loss or corruption, BDRSuite facilitates easy recovery with granular file and folder restoration, as well as options for bare-metal recovery and instant boot. With BDRSuite’s Windows Backup Software, you can minimize downtime and enhance data protection.

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BDRSuite – The Best Windows Backup Software for System Image Backup

Image-Based Backup – Complete Protection for Windows Servers & Workstations

  • Configure system image backup for the entire Windows machine or backup only selected disks/volumes
  • Supports backup of MBR and GPT partitioned disks and the disks of size more than 2 TB of data in a Windows machine
  • Near Continuous Data Protection with RPO less than 15 minutes. Backup scheduling starts every few mins, hourly, weekly, monthly and more
  • BDRSuite leverages Changed Block Tracking(CBT) for Incremental Backups
  • Backup will automatically start from where it left off during the previous schedule in case of network interruption
  • Create new backup jobs quickly using Backup templates created using frequently used backup configuration settings
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Windows Recovery – Ensure Business Continuity

  • BDRSuite allows you to meet lowest Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of < 15 mins
  • Instant VM Boot allows booting of Microsoft Windows backup in minutes on any hypervisor such as VMware, Hyper-V, KVM
  • Instant & Granular File-Level Recovery to restore a specific file or folder from backup without restoring the entire machine
  • Application Item Recovery for Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, SQL Server and Sharepoint
  • All backups can be exposed and downloaded in a different virtual formats – VHD, VHDX, Flat-VMDK, VMDK, or RAW which can later be used for migration
  • Restore or mount specific disks instantly on the backup server to access the files/folders instantly

Windows Backup Storage – Local & Cloud Storage Options

  • BDRSuite’s Flexible Storage targets feature provides maximum flexibility and control over backup data storage
  • Supports scale-out and disk rotation repository types, allowing for efficient storage management
  • Easily configure Windows backups to be stored on various storage options, including local disks, NAS, SAN and more
  • Seamless integration with leading cloud storage providers such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, S3 compatible storage like Wasabi, MinIO, etc
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Windows Backup Encryption – Advanced Data Security

  • BDRSuite’s Microsoft Windows Backup tool provides unequaled encryption capabilities and secure storage mechanisms
  • Windows image backup data is kept secure through AES 256-bit encryption, ensuring protection during both transmission and storage
  • BDRSuite offers the option to set up a unique encryption key or utilize a system-generated password, providing additional layers of protection for your data
  • Windows backup data is stored using BDRSuite’s proprietary file system, VembuHIVE, which is designed to be secure and reliable
  • Backup data is stored in encrypted chunks, making it inaccessible and unreadable without the BDRSuite platform

Windows Backup Management – Retention and Compliance

  • BDRSuite provides a centralized console to easily configure, monitor, and manage the Windows system image backups
  • BDRSuite offers flexible retention policies, allowing you to retain Windows image backups according to your needs and compliance requirements
  • BDRSuite supports both basic and GFS retention, enabling you to create restore points at different intervals (weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis) for greater recovery flexibility
  • BDRSuite’s Windows backup tool ensures compliance with regulations like GDPR and PCI-DSS, maintaining high standards of data protection
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Key Features of Windows Backup Software from BDRSuite

Image Backups for Microsoft Windows

Disk Image Backup

BDRSuite offers system image based backup for physical Windows Servers and Endpoints

    • Flexibility to backup the entire Windows machine or a particular disk/volume
    • Supports backup for both Basic and Dynamic disks
    • Backup disks that are larger in size i.e. more than 2 TB in size
    • Exclude system files during backup – pagefil.sys & hiber.sys using the advanced filter option

Near Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

BDRSuite offers an RPO of every 15 minutes for Windows Servers and Windows desktops/laptops to achieve near continuous data protection.

    • Incremental Windows backup using proprietary Changed Block Tracking driver of BDRSuite to ensure faster backups and less data transfer
    • Run backups on Hourly/Daily/Weekly basis
    • Configure additional full backups on Daily/Weekly/Monthly basis
    • Configure synthetic full backups on Weekly/Monthly basis

Application-Aware Backups

Application-Aware Backups
Businesses today run services and data on top of business-critical applications and the data protection solutions need to be able to interact with the application for consistent backups.

    • BDRSuite leverages Microsoft VSS technology to create consistent application backups
    • Supported for Windows Servers running Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and Active Directory
    • Automatic Transaction Log Truncation to save storage space

Flexible Storage Options

BDRSuite supports various storage media for your data protection needs. With options like local storage and cloud storage, BDRSuite offer the flexibility to choose the ideal backup targets.

    • Seamlessly backup your data to different storage media, including local drives, NAS (NFS and CIFS), SAN (iSCSI and FC), as well as cloud storage options such as S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, and S3-compatible storage like Wasabi and MinIO
    • Scale your storage repositories according to your evolving storage needs and expand your backup infrastructure without any constraints

Flexible Retention Policies

Retention allows organizations to have control over the number of recovery points that are to be retained for a certain period of time by purging older recovery points of a backup job.

    • The Basic and GFS Retention Policies helps to retain multiple recovery points that span for days to years
    • Depending on business SLAs the retention policy can be varied by selecting the number of versions to be retained
    • Through GFS retention, retain Additional Full and Synthetic Full backups from days to years
    • Create restore points on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis

Automated Verification of Backups

Verifying backups is one of the most crucial steps as far as disaster recovery is concerned. BDRSuite provides an automated process for verifying backups in order to ensure data integrity.

    • 3-tier of backup verification – Boot test, Mount test and Data Integrity test
    • Automatically boots and tests the integrity of backed up Windows Servers/Workstations
    • Screenshot of the booted machine is captured and sent to the admin via email

Multiple Recovery options for Windows Image Backups

Bare-Metal Recovery

Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) feature allows you to recover the complete physical Window Servers, Desktops and Laptops from the scratch.

  • BMR process brings back the system to its previous state which was available before the occurrence of the disaster or system crash
  • Perform Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) using BDRSuite Recovery CD
  • Bare Metal Recovery also restores the supporting environment such as operating systems and applications in-order to rebuild the system

Instant Recovery

BDRSuite allows you to instantly boot the entire physical machine as a virtual machine on a VMware/Hyper-V/KVM hypervisors.

  • Meet RTO less than 15 minutes and ensure business conitinuity
  • Physical to Virtual platform migration – (P2V)
  • Similarly, mount the disks of the backed up Windows machine virtually on the local server in a couple of seconds using the Disk Mount recovery option

File-Level Recovery

BDRSuite ensures quick and easy recovery of files and folders directly from the backup without restoring the entire Windows machine.

  • Granular recovery of files/folders from an image based backup
  • Restore files/folders to the same or different location
  • Restore the file/folders along with their file permissions

Recovery of Microsoft Applications

Recover individual application objects of Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, and AD from the backup data. Any restore point can be selected and individual items can be recovered within minutes.

  • Supported for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint and Active Directory
  • Mount the backup data, browse and restore the application items directly from the Windows disk image backup
  • Restore specific application items from the backup of Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, and Active Directory Server running on a physical or virtual Windows platform

Robust Data Security & Management options for Windows Backup

Higher Grade Backup Encryption

BDRSuite protects your backup data both in-flight and at-rest using industry-standard AES-256 bit encryption algorithms and also allows the user to add a second layer of authentication to protect the backup data with customized or system generated passwords.

Software Defined Backup Storage

With BDRSuite, you can create a software-defined logical storage pool by grouping one or more storage volumes that makes efficient use of all available storage provisioned for backup purposes with built in compression and deduplication.

Build Virtual Lab Environments

With the ability to boot the backed up Physical Windows Machines as VMs directly from backup storage, businesses can effectively build virtual lab environments that allows efficient provisioning of DEV/STG/Test environments on the fly.

Optimized Backup with Where-it-left-off

Image-based backups run more efficiently even if there is network failure or other interruptions during backup. Whenever a backup restarts from an interruption, the backup will automatically start from where it left off during the previous schedule. This feature can greatly improve backup performance even when there are frequent network failures especially in WANs.

Multi-host Backup Support

Configure backups for multiple-hosts in a single job and you can always configure running backup for different hosts inside a job to run in parallel thus improving backup performance.

Parallel Disk Processing

Parallel backups of multiple disks in a single host during the backup schedule. You can customize the number of backup jobs and the number of disks in a single backup job that can run in parallel.

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Offsite Copy & Backup Copy for Windows Backup

BDRSuite allows you to create multiple copies of backup using the backup copy and offsite copy feature for disaster recovery (DR) purpose.

  • Replicate a copy of the backup data to an offsite location i.e. a remote office/branch office datacenter to ensure extended data protection
  • Bandwidth throttling of network to limit its traffic during work hours
  • Seed large amount of backup data to offsite locations to save bandwidth and time

Windows Cloud Backup

Experience the power of Cloud by replicating a copy of business-critical data from Windows machine to Cloud, in order to access the data from almost anywhere.

  • BDRSuite allows you to replicate a copy of the backed up Windows machine to BDRCloud using Cloud DR option
  • With Offsite DR Server, you can replicate a copy of backup to your own cloud storage – S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, S3 compatible storage such as Wasabi, MinIO, etc
  • Granularly restore the backup data from anywhere at any time

Archive Windows Backup to Tape

BDRSuite offers native tape backup support for Windows Image backups, allowing efficient and cost-effective long-term archival of data.

  • Archive Windows Backup to Tape drives
  • Restore data from Tape whenever required
  • Helps to meet the best practice of 3-2-1 backup strategy

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How Windows Image Backup work

  • BDRSuite uses Microsoft VSS technology to create snapshot of the entire Windows machine or a selected disk/partition
  • The application-aware processing ensures a consistent database snapshot by quiescing the MS applications using Microsoft VSS APIs
  • The initial backup is the full backup and the rest are only the incrementals (changes)
  • The changes are captured at the block-level using the BDRSuite’s Changed Block Tracking (CBT) driver to ensure efficient backups
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Windows Backup Software – FAQs

A disk image or system image backup is a type of backup that creates a complete copy of an entire Windows system, including the operating system, applications, settings, configurations and files. It captures the entire contents of the disk or system partition, preserving the data and the structure in a single file.
Windows Backup Software is a specialized application designed to facilitate the backup and recovery of data on Windows operating systems. Windows backup solutions backups and store the data copies in a remote or cloud location. This allows you to restore the critical data from backup when required in cases like disasters, data corruption, etc. Backup software for Windows provides various recovery options, ranging from disk-level recovery to item-level recovery, allowing users to recover data according to their specific requirements.
Windows Image Backup Software offers data protection and disaster recovery advantages:

  • Prevent data loss from hardware failures, malware attacks, or accidents
  • Ensure data integrity with image-level backups preserving system state
  • Schedule automated backups for continuous data protection
  • Flexible recovery options to restore specific files, folders, or system images
  • Simplify system migration to new hardware or virtualized environments
  • Backup of Windows Disks/Volumes ensures that critical data and configurations are securely stored, ensuring data protection against accidental deletion, hardware failures, or system crashes
  • The application-aware processing ensures a consistent database snapshot by quiescing the MS applications using Microsoft VSS APIs
  • Reliable Windows backup and recovery enables instant recovery, business continuity and minimizes the downtime in case of server or workstation failures
  • With Bare-Metal Recovery (BMR) restore the entire machine including its operating systems, applications, and data to the same or new hardware
  1. Download & Install BDRSuite: Download BDRSuite 30-day free trial and setup in your environment
  2. Add Microsoft Windows: Add Windows server/workstation machine as Data Sources on BDRSuite, from which you want to backup physical/virtual machines
  3. Configure backup storage: You can store the backed up Windows server/workstation data on NAS, SAN, S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, S3 Compatible storage – Wasabi, MinIO, Backblaze, etc
  4. Configure backup job:
    • Select Disk/Volume you want to backup
    • Enable application-consistent backups
    • Automate backups at specific intervals
    • Configure Retention & Encryption settings
  5. Save & Run the Backup Job: Backups will start to run as per the schedule

For detailed configuration, refer to Windows Backup User Guide.

BDRSuite stands out as the best Windows Backup Software for several reasons:

  • Comprehensive Windows Backup and Recovery: BDRSuite provides a wide range of advanced backup and recovery features for Windows. It allows you to schedule automated backups, and recover disk /volumes for added data protection.
  • Efficient Backup Performance: BDRSuite optimizes the backup process, ensuring minimal impact on system resources and achieving fast backup speeds
  • Flexible Recovery Options: With BDRSuite, you can restore entire VMs, individual files, or specific application items with ease, and achieving RTO < 15mins
  • Cost-Effectiveness: BDRSuite offers a comprehensive set of features at a competitive price, making it an excellent choice for organizations of all sizes
  • User-Friendly Interface: BDRSuite’s intuitive and user-friendly interface requires only minimal learning, simplifying the backup and recovery process
  • 24/7 Support: BDRSuite team provides excellent customer support, assisting with any queries or technical issues round the clock

Overall, BDRSuite’s combination of powerful features, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, & user-friendliness, make it the best Windows Backup Solution available in the market. Download BDRSuite 30-day free trial.

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