Disk/partition backup

Disk backup will backup all your files on the disk into a compressed image file, including all partitions or volumes on this disk. That means if you backup a system disk, after restore, the restored disk could also be booted directly. It supports backup MBR disk, GPT disk, external hard drive, USB disk, and other storage devices that can be recognized by Windows.

Disk backup transfers all the data on the partition/disk(s) which you have selected to an image file. Click Disk/Partition Backup in the Backup and recovery page.

• Task name - Specify the task name. An accurate task name will help you to distinguish this task from others which will make it much easier when you want to recover.
• Source - Select the disk/partition(s) to back up. You can specify multiple partitions or hard disks as backup source.
• Destination - Specify the destination to save the image file. Local disk, Network directory or NAS drive can be set as backup destination.
• Options - Set advanced parameters for the current backup task. See Options for detailed information.
• Schedule - To specify to when run the backup in a schedule, click Turn on. See Schedule for detailed information.
• Sector by sector backup - With Sector by sector backup selected, QILING Disk Master will backup all the sectors on the selected partition(s)/hard disk(s).To learn more, see Sector by sector backup.
• Click Proceed to finish the setting. The backup will be executed immediately.

Dynamic volume backup

A dynamic volume is part of a dynamic disk; this kind of hard disk manages the volumes with a LDM (short for Logical Disk Manager) database. Compared with a basic disk, a dynamic disk can be divided into multiple types of volumes. Most of the volume types have advanced features in data storage, such as data redundancy in a Mirrored volume and fault-tolerant features in a RAID-5 volume.

The backup process would be the same as a common disk/partition backup task. The only difference is that all of the dynamic volumes would be listed in a single disk in the Disk Map of QILING Disk Master, though they may be located on different dynamic disks.