Real-time Hard Drive Imaging
Perfect Image utilises Hot Backup and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (MS VSS) technology, to allow applications to remain live during hard drive backup ensuring business can continue as usual

Intelligent Backup

• Cyclic backup system automatically processes an effective backup strategy
  
• Differential backup option produces smaller backups by saving only drive changes
  
• Synthetic backup allows merging of differential and base images into a new image
  
• Backup to local or network drives
  
• Backup to a hidden, secure hard drive partition
  
• Backup selected="selected" partitions or entire drives into a single image
  
• Backup to local and network CD/DVDs (or ISO image files), USB or FireWire devices
  
• Virtual Operations let the user to review procedures before applying changes
  
• Skip OS auxiliary files option allows skipping files such as pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys

Perfect Restores
Perfect Image provides multiple restore options including:

• Choose from file, folder, partition, entire hard drive or even MBR restore
  
• Boot directly from a protected hard drive partition and perform all restore functions
  Boot from the powerful recovery CD to access local and network backups
  
• Create custom boot media containing backup images
  
• Bare Metal Restore
  
• Resize during restore to accommodate hard drive changes

Archiving Control

• Compress archives to reduce image storage requirements
  
• Adjustable compression settings (none/fast/normal/best)
  
• Encrypt and password protect archives
  
• Archive integrity verification
  
• Automatic backup archive database helps manage backup images
  
• Mount archives to selectively extract files
  
• Adjustable archive splitting options
  
• E-mail notification of process completion
  
• Powerful scripting system allows detailed automation of procedures of almost any complexity.

Hard Drive Cloning
Cloning hard drives, as well as providing an alternative method of hard drive backups for security purposes, is of great use when setting up similar computers. Perfect Image can successfully transfer all on-disk information, including standard bootstrap code and other system service structures, for maintaining the operating system's functionality. Perfect Image provides a full set of cloning options, including:

• Clone all sectors or perform an incremental clone
  
• Remove free blocks between partitions
  
• Clone data and resize partitions proportionally
  
• Perform surface test scans
  
• Verify integrity of the new copy

• Reliably restore anything from a single file to an entire hard disk
  
• Hot Backup technology allows live backups without restarting Windows
  
• Bare Metal Restore rescues hard drives even if Windows will not boot
  
• Cyclic Backup creates and automatically manages a backup strategy
  
• Synthetic Backup merges existing backups into a new image
  
• Encrypt and protect backup images with password to save your confidential data
  
• Secure Partition option keeps backup images safe in a protected hard drive partition
  
• Net Burner allows recording to both local and networked CD/DVD-RW drives
  
• Scripting Language allows detailed programming and automation of operations
  
• Remotely manage Perfect Image Corporate Workstations

Version 11.0 Platform Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista,

• Operating System: Windows 2000 Pro, XP, Vista or 2000/2003 Server (64-bit versions are not supported)
  
• Processor: 300 MHz Intel Pentium or equivalent
  
• RAM: 128 MB
  
• Hard Drive Space: 40 MB
  
• Other: Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher; SVGA video adapter and monitor; CD/DVD-RW drive (for Net Burner Service)
  

• Dynamic volumes
  
• Parallel ATA (IDE) HDD, Serial ATA (SATA) HDD
  
• SCSI HDD
  
• All levels of SCSI, IDE and SATA RAID controllers
  
• CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD+/-R (DL)
  
• USB 1.0/2.0 and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) devices
  
• Iomega® ZIP®, Jazz® and other removable media
  
• PC card storage devices

• NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
• FAT16, FAT32
• Ext2FS, Ext3FS
• ReiserFS (Backup operations)
• Linux Swap
• HPFS
• Other file systems in Sector-by-Sector mode