Whole computer backup on Windows
File history protects what you made. Whole computer backup protects everything else — the operating system, your applications, your settings — so a dead drive doesn’t mean a weekend of reinstalling.
What it captures
On Windows, MomentBackup takes a complete image of the system disk while you keep working, using the system’s shadow-copy mechanism for a consistent picture. The result is stored in the same deduplicated, verifiable repository as your file history.
Repeat captures are incremental: only blocks that changed since the last image are stored, and MomentBackup manages the chain so it never grows without bound.
What you can do with it
- Restore the whole machine onto a replacement disk after a failure.
- Browse inside an image to inspect its captured files before recovery.
- Verify images against what was captured, so the answer to “would this actually restore?” is a fact, not a hope.
The destructive steps — writing to a real disk — always show exactly what will be erased and require explicit, typed confirmation. There is no “oops” path.
Creating a standalone recovery ISO requires the recommended signed per-machine MSI on Windows. The secondary per-user installer supports File History and system-image capture, but it is not recovery-ready and cannot create recovery media.
On macOS and Linux
Public 1.0 provides File History on both platforms, not live whole-disk capture. On a Mac, Apple’s own recovery handles the operating system, while MomentBackup covers your files and keeps an eye on Time Machine. On Linux, use the distribution’s own system recovery tools alongside MomentBackup File History.
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