![]() You can’t delete the Safety Drill images using the Safety Drill software.You can not image restore from the installed Safety Drill software. To restore an image you boot off a disk that you get with the product. Maxtor could have at least thrown in a utility to validate the image before restore. There are no tools or utilities other than to restore the whole disk image. The Linux-based (Knoppix) takes a long time to boot.Consistent with the image backup – its all or nothing. Does not allow one to restore a particular partition. Image restore must restore the whole drive.The image created by Safety Drill was about 30% larger than the identical image backup make by another product. Maxtor Safety Drill does not allow looking inside the image. This makes image backups dual purpose – restore the whole image of restore a particular file. That is, you could do a file or folder restore from an image file. Image backup software going back to Norton Ghost allowed one to do this. You can’t look inside the image and restore individual files.If you have a large drive sometimes it does not make sense to image the whole disk. You can’t pick and choose what partitions to back up. Some folks have a C partition with the Operating System and use the D drive for a data drive. If you have multiple partitions you have to back them all up – no choice. Safety Drill will back up your hard drive but you can’t select a particular partition.Specifically, it was disappointing against the product we got for “free” with an external drive we bought about a year ago. ![]() ![]() To get to the bottom line on Safety Drill we were very disappointed at the lack of features and sophistication of this software in a mature market of such products. This concept goes back at least three decades starting with Norton Ghost in the 1980’s It is nothing new in concept or underlying technology. The Maxtor Safety Drill software derives from a long line of image backup software. Old Concept – New implementation and disappointing feature set This is the case with the safety drill image backup that is created with the backup software supplied by the Maxtor One Touch 4 Plus drives. For some software that does image backups the image is opaque meaning that you can’t look inside the pile of bits that is the image backup and see individual files. Basically, the image is a pile of bits that represents all the data on the drive. Safety Drill is software that can back up and restore an image of your hard drive.Īn image of a hard drive is different than a file backup. The Plus in the One Touch 4 Plus means that it comes with Safety Drill. “Save your life” – that is the tag line on the Maxtor One Touch 4 Plus 1 Terabyte (1,000 GB) drive and associated software. Use it for Data Backup and file backup.Review of Maxtor 1TB 4 Plus Safety Drill SoftwareĪnother story from the “We wasted (invested) our money in this so you don’t have to. Can append date/time to filename for archive purposes. Can append date/time to filename for archive purposes.Ĭopy files and directories using wildcards on schedule. Zip files and directories using wildcards on schedule. Local directory monitor allows you to backup data when a file/folder change is detected. ![]() Scheduler software is very easy to use, yet has very powerful scheduling, tasking and automation capabilities.Įmail Notification of task failure based on task exit code. Transfer your backup set to a remote location via FTP or Email it to your mail server. This allows flexibility in restoring the data using any zip software to unzip the backup set. The backup set is created in standard ZIP format. Schedule tasks by the second or minute, or on a Hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis.Īutomate Backups of your important data, files and folders. Synchronize, copy, and zip tasks are also included to satisfy all your backup and archiving needs. After backup, You can ftp or email the backup file. The backup file is in standard zip format which allows you to restore data using any zip utility. JaBack is free backup software with advanced automation features. ![]()
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