Whole computer backup
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 and Linux, MomentBackup takes a complete image of the system disk while you keep working — Windows uses the system’s shadow-copy mechanism, Linux briefly freezes the filesystem 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 and pull out individual files without restoring everything.
- 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.
On a Mac
macOS doesn’t allow third-party tools to do this kind of full-machine restore well, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. On a Mac, Apple’s own recovery handles the operating system; MomentBackup covers your files with file history and keeps an eye on your Time Machine backups so you know they’re actually working.
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