Shadow copy only saves previous versions of a document, on the same drive. If your laptop is stolen, and you want to restore all your apps/data from your last 'shadow copy backup,' onto a replacement laptop, you are SOL.
If MS wants to take a bite into Apple, they need to make this feature compatible with remote backup and restore of an entire disk (like a personal Mozy + Ghost, or Apple's time Machine on Steroids.)
Indeed. For the person that believes Shadow Copy is just like Time Machine, a little more research is required for this individual. It probably will not make a difference, from my experience with these users, reading and comprehension seems to be broken for them.
I'd agree that Microsoft don't get it. They've lost the plot.
Apple releases Time Machine. It's great because it makes backups really accessible for the first time. No instruction manuals needed, no options to dig through - just click the "on" button and you're set. Need a file? Click an icon in the dock, find your file, and click restore. An infant could figure it out.
That's why 'mac fanboys' exist. Because Apple don't invent things, they reinvent them. They take a great technology like automatic backups, and make it easy to use. Shadow Copies not only doesn't perform the same function (in any capacity. Lost a file? tough. HDD crashed? hard luck.), you need to know it's there and exactly how to use it before you can use it.
Apple make great consumer products by leaving out the options and making things automatic. I don't want to care that my car is adjusting the suspension to make the ride smoother - I expect it to do that. Microsoft make great business and pro products by making everything an option - are you a home user? a premium home user? how about a business user? do you want an ultimate version of the product? do you have a 64-bit processor? Apple users don't need to care about any of that.
Shadow copy is for servers to "invisibly" make backups at the file level to cover for user mistakes. It has nothing to do with BACKUP software.
Time machine makes incremental backups to an external disk. The fact it backs up is not original, that is incremental is slightly novel in that they use a neat structure to save disk space from duplicated files. The killer feature is that it is plug-n-play. Plug in a disk, get a backup.. plug in the backup to a new computer restore EVERYTHING. With very little hassle. I've used it after wiping my macbook to troubleshoot the software and it restored perfectly... network, wireless, printers, scanners, cookies and passwords, SOFTWARE... Microsoft is incapable of making such an easy to use product without "owning" the process.. and windows software is too crappy to play nice with such software.
@Mabhatter: Unfortuantely Microsoft is more than capable of providing the sort of backup you referred to and it's called Windows Home Server. Perhaps you should do some research because WHS does everything you just mentioned and a whole lot more.
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MS is laughable, really.
For providing features to its customers?
Yeah, that's hilarious.
laughable because they are going to add a apple time-machine-like gui to their already exist shadow copy?
Shadow Copy is not Time Machine like. Read more please.
Shadow copy only saves previous versions of a document, on the same drive. If your laptop is stolen, and you want to restore all your apps/data from your last 'shadow copy backup,' onto a replacement laptop, you are SOL.
If MS wants to take a bite into Apple, they need to make this feature compatible with remote backup and restore of an entire disk (like a personal Mozy + Ghost, or Apple's time Machine on Steroids.)
The only difference is that time-machine has "slick ui", while shadow copy has lame ui.
"MS is laughable, really."
Indeed. For the person that believes Shadow Copy is just like Time Machine, a little more research is required for this individual. It probably will not make a difference, from my experience with these users, reading and comprehension seems to be broken for them.
@THJ
why does windows need to? Maxtor....Western Digital....Seagate
they already have this software for PC...and it works fine
its not as nice looking as time machine...but GUIs just need to be functional, not pretty.
I'd agree that Microsoft don't get it. They've lost the plot.
Apple releases Time Machine. It's great because it makes backups really accessible for the first time. No instruction manuals needed, no options to dig through - just click the "on" button and you're set. Need a file? Click an icon in the dock, find your file, and click restore. An infant could figure it out.
That's why 'mac fanboys' exist. Because Apple don't invent things, they reinvent them. They take a great technology like automatic backups, and make it easy to use. Shadow Copies not only doesn't perform the same function (in any capacity. Lost a file? tough. HDD crashed? hard luck.), you need to know it's there and exactly how to use it before you can use it.
Apple make great consumer products by leaving out the options and making things automatic. I don't want to care that my car is adjusting the suspension to make the ride smoother - I expect it to do that. Microsoft make great business and pro products by making everything an option - are you a home user? a premium home user? how about a business user? do you want an ultimate version of the product? do you have a 64-bit processor? Apple users don't need to care about any of that.
Shadow copy is for servers to "invisibly" make backups at the file level to cover for user mistakes. It has nothing to do with BACKUP software.
Time machine makes incremental backups to an external disk. The fact it backs up is not original, that is incremental is slightly novel in that they use a neat structure to save disk space from duplicated files. The killer feature is that it is plug-n-play. Plug in a disk, get a backup.. plug in the backup to a new computer restore EVERYTHING. With very little hassle. I've used it after wiping my macbook to troubleshoot the software and it restored perfectly... network, wireless, printers, scanners, cookies and passwords, SOFTWARE... Microsoft is incapable of making such an easy to use product without "owning" the process.. and windows software is too crappy to play nice with such software.
Windows Home Server has nothing to do with Shadow Copy.
@Mabhatter: Unfortuantely Microsoft is more than capable of providing the sort of backup you referred to and it's called Windows Home Server. Perhaps you should do some research because WHS does everything you just mentioned and a whole lot more.