Shadowprotect updates and downloads

Create an account. Register for an account. It provides a simple view to restore or update files and folders to your existing backup images. ShadowProtect includes bare metal recovery to the same system, dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments. It will create an automatic online backup of your entire system including the operating system, applications, configuration and personal settings and your data.

ShadowProtect gives you the tools you need to centrally manage your point-in-time backup images and restore them in a matter of minutes. The easy-to-use management console allows you to simultaneously push install ShadowProtect to all your Windows desktops and laptops from a central location. You will able to view the backup status of all protected Windows systems in your organization. ShadowProtect provides you with VirtualBoot technology — for failover to a virtual desktop.

As well as a virtual converter to convert ShadowProtect backup images into virtual machines. ImageManager allows you to consolidate point-in-time backup images on a daily, weekly and monthly basis for simplified management.

Automatic verification and re-verification tools ensure your backups are in a known good state when recovery is necessary. ShadowProtect Desktop is an automated backup that works in the background. In the event of a disaster, its flexible recovery options allow you to complete granular recovery of files and folders.

Or full bare metal recovery in a matter of minutes. Hardware Independent Restore HIR technology makes it quick and easy to recover to the same system, to dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments. ShadowProtect will issue an error message during the restore if it encounters a mis-matched sector size. Otherwise, ShadowProtect cannot activate its license. This is an issue as Windows bit OSes configure only bit proxy settings by default.

Confirm that the proxy is configured for bit and not just bit applications. Once the Windows proxy supports both and bit applications, confirm the communication between the client and the proxy.

Use the Windows procedures to modify these settings as required. If your system has multiple boot partitions, install ShadowProtect on each of the bootable Windows partitions. These installs guarantee that ShadowProtect recognizes changes to ShadowProtect-managed volumes from these secondary Windows environments. You do not need to activate ShadowProtect, but the snapshot driver stcvsm. This snapshot driver manages the fast incremental tracking in ShadowProtect.

If you boot to an alternate OS environment where the snapshot driver is not loaded, ShadowProtect cannot track volume updates from that OS boot session. This means that your next Incremental backup misses any changes made from the alternate OS.

If one or more non-Windows operating systems, such as Linux, can write to a ShadowProtect-managed volume, make sure ShadowProtect recognizes those changes by creating a script.

It should delete all VSM IDX case-sensitive files from the root directory of each ShadowProtect-managed volume.

Removing these files forces ShadowProtect's stcvsm. This differential image file captures any changes made to the volume from the non-Windows OS. Be sure to select this license language when installing ShadowProtect. For example, a user could activate a German language install of ShadowProtect on an English language Windows system. ShadowProtect Virtual is a licensing model specifically designed for virtual environments.

It allows you to purchase a single ShadowProtect Virtual license or licenses in 3, 6, 12, 24, or 50 license bundles..

ShadowProtect Virtual offers the same features and functionality available in ShadowProtect at a price point more appropriate to a virtualized environment. ShadowProtect for Managed Services:.

When you purchase ShadowProtect, StorageCraft provides you with both a product serial number and an Evaluation version of the purchased product.

We recommend you activate the product upon installation using the product serial number. The Evaluation version provides you with 30 days of product access. During this time you must activate the product with the product serial number. If you do not activate the product within 30 days of installation, the product times out and stops functioning. You can still activate the product after the end of the 30 days.

However, any backup jobs you created will not run again until after you activate the product. You need to deactivate the ShadowProtect license and uninstall the software prior to upgrading an existing Windows 7 system to Windows 8 or a Windows 8 to Windows 8 Pro.

After the OS upgrade, reinstall ShadowProtect and reactivate the license. While the system preserves backup job configurations and other ShadowProtect settings, a best practice is to always create a new backup job after the upgrade rather than continue an older, existing chain.

If you upgrade ShadowProtect from one major revision to another, such as upgrading from v4. Your existing license works for minor revision upgrades, such as from v4. Click Yes to restart the software. ShadowProtect is now activated. Clicking No in the Restart Now dialog delays activation until after a restart. It also results in the ShadowProtect Activate Product dialog showing no serial number or other information.

Note: Closing and reopening the ShadowProtect UI does not complete the activation or refresh the serial number in the Activate Product dialog. You can install and run ShadowProtect without activating it for a period of 30 days. Once you choose to activate it, follow the steps listed.

If you are unable to use the automated activation method, StorageCraft provides a manual activation option. This requires you to request an activation key online and manually apply it to your ShadowProtect installation.

Upgrades between minor revisions of ShadowProtect such as between a 5. ShadowProtect retains all configuration settings. Upgrades between major revisions of ShadowProtect such as from a 4. As with a minor revision upgrade, ShadowProtect retains all configuration settings for existing backup jobs. Note: With the many changes that occur with an OS upgrade, we recommend starting a new backup image chain to ensure an accurate OS restore should it be required later on.

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