Easily Backup Your PC With COMODO Time Machine

Windows only:



COMODO is always known more of its Firewall than of anything else, but that apparently doesn't stop them from developing other security tools, notably the Internet Security, Antispam and System Cleaner. However, more recently COMODO began looking at the backup and system restore department. Which leads them to create Time Machine, a system restore aka system rollback utility which acts as a powerful replacement for Microsoft's inbuilt System Restore function.

 
As its name implies, COMODO Time Machine deals with restoring a PC to a previous state. However, unlike the System Restore of Windows, Time Machine gives users personal control over what and when a system is to be backup and restore. It works by creating snapshots of the entire system and allows you to switch between these snapshots with a simple reboot of the computer. It also comes with the ability to take snapshots based on scheduled time. Most interestingly however, Time Machine allows snapshots to be mounted in different partitions. This incredible feature allows user to recover files without having to reset the entire system.


Time Machine is protected locally with a Username-Password access routine, meaning that users will not be able to access COMODO Time Machine and its settings unless they know the username and password.

As snapshots accumulates and eventually stuffs up disk space, users can always reset the 'baseline', meaning that Time Machine will take the current snapshot of the PC, delete all the other existing snapshot, and boot into the new base snapshot.

Below are a detailed list of the features of Time Machine:

• Easy to use - even beginners can quickly create system snapshots with a few mouse clicks
• Provides instant and comprehensive system recovery after virus or spyware infections
• Instantly reclaim your machine after devastating system crashes
• Rollback the changes to ALL your documents - not just changes to system files and the registry
• Boot-up console allows you to rollback even when your system will not boot to Windows
• Test new software and network configurations in the knowledge that you can quickly switch back if problems develop
• Completely remove unwanted software installations without the need to uninstall or clean the registry
• Flexible restore options allow you to mount and browse snapshots to recover individual files or folders
• Right click on any file or folder to synchronize it with a snapshot version
• Schedule regular system snapshots to ensure highly relevant restore points
• Network administrators have another way to quickly fix user or software problems
• Libraries, Internet cafes and other publicly shared networks can schedule a total system restore at the end of each session

COMODO Time Machine is freeware, so users can use if for free on any PC, if they decide to replace System Restore completely. In fact, i think it actually outperforms the built-in System Restore completely.

Time Machine works with Windows 7, Vista, XP and Windows Server 2003 & 2008. Both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows are supported.