NEW! Casper™ 11

What's New for Casper 5.0 Users

Casper 7.0 incorporates major performance and usability improvements, including enhanced support for Windows 7, USB boot capabilities, enhanced SmartClone and AccuClone technologies, new SmartSense™ automatic backup and drive detection, new SmartRelease™ functionality, new SmartStart wizards, Solid State Drive (SSD) and Advanced Format Drive support, new scheduling capabilities, SmartAlert™ notifications, new run-time controls, usability enhancements, plus more.

• Enhanced for Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 8 — provides enhanced support for all versions of Windows 10 and Windows 8, including new functionality available only to Windows 10 and Windows 8 users.
• EXCLUSIVE! Image File Backups† — creates, maintains, and restores complete disk image file backups that can be stored virtually anywhere, including on a drive containing other files or remotely on a network attached storage device.
• EXCLUSIVE! Bootable Image Recovery† — makes it possible to boot and run your PC directly from an image file backup for immediate recovery.
• EXCLUSIVE! Virtual Boot and Test† — provides support for instantly booting and running an image file backup within a temporary Windows Hyper-V Virtual Machine for testing.
• EXCLUSIVE! Standard User Support — allows running from a standard user account, making it possible to safely and securely create instantly bootable backups and restore-point backups without requiring unnecessary administrator privileges.
• USB Boot Capability† — creates a fully bootable copy of a Windows system drive that can boot and run directly from an external USB drive.
• EXCLUSIVE! GPT and UEFI Support — provides complete support for GPT disk partitioning and UEFI systems.
• Enhanced SmartClone™ Technology — now designed to work with AccuClone to provide speeds up to 50X faster than previous versions.
• Enhanced AccuClone™ Technology — new support for partition resizing using AccuClone imaging, ensuring optimium performance while migrating to smaller sized devices such as solid state NVMe devices.
• EXCLUSIVE! SmartResume Technology† — provides support for safely resuming an interrupted backup to another disk or image file backup. Casper will even automatically restart a current backup when a soft failure occurs.
• EXCLUSIVE! SmartSight™ Technology — automatic pre-image verification technology maintains backup integrity even when an image source contains newly damaged or inaccessible data.
• EXCLUSIVE! Enhanced Automatic Copy Verification — now provides post-image verification support for NTFS volumes, making verification faster and fully resumable.
• New SmartStart Console and Enhanced Wizards — now make it easier than ever to use Casper to create and maintain a complete system backup for your computer, or upgrade your Windows system disk to a faster solid state drive or larger capacity disk.
• EXCLUSIVE! SmartRestore™ Technology — provides easy, one-step support for restoring a system from a backup. Casper automatically locates available backups, you choose which backup to restore, and Casper does the rest. Casper will even seek out your backups from multiple locations.
• EXCLUSIVE! Automatic Backup Retention Policy† — provides automatic management of image backups to maintain the perfect balance of backups and storage space utilization.
• EXCLUSIVE! Casper Backups Folder† — provides support for quickly locating, mounting, testing, and managing all Casper restore-point backups.
• SmartSense™ Disk Detection — automatically detects when you attach a new portable disk or an existing backup disk to your computer. Casper SmartSense disk detection technology allows you to begin the process of upgrading or creating and maintaining a backup replacement of your Windows system hard disk the moment you attach a new or existing backup hard disk to your computer.
• SmartSense Automatic Backups — fully automates the process of maintaining a system backup on a portable drive, making it easier than ever to maintain a complete, instantly bootable system backup on an external USB drive.
• SmartRelease™ — automatically prepares your portable backup drive for safe removal after the backup has been completed. Eliminates the need to use the Windows Safely Remove Hardware utility to safely remove your portable drive after a backup.
• Solid State Drive (SSD) and Advanced Format Drive Support — ensures optimal performance of solid state and Advanced Format drives by automatically optimizing the alignment of data during the imaging process. Also ensures complete support for drives with capacities greater than 2TB.
• Enhanced Scheduling — enables complete editing of previously defined copy schedules, plus new scheduling options and support for the latest scheduling capabilities available to Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista users.
• SmartAlert™ Notifications — notifies you via email when a backup has been completed or only when a backup requires attention for true “set it and forget it” operation.
• New Runtime Controls — allows you to quickly change power management and notification options after a backup is underway, regardless of how the backup was started.
• Usability Enhancements — provides automatic suppression of Windows AutoPlay popups for portable backup drives, support for assigning custom names to hard disks, larger icons, friendlier wizards, and accessibility improvements make copying and backing up drives easier than ever.
• Enterprise Scripting and Automation Support — provides scripting and automation support to enable custom interface design, operation and integration within an enterprise.
• Group Policy Administration — gives system administrators complete control over functionality to make available to standard users.
• Other Enhancements:
  • Additional OEM partition support
  • Automatic update notifications
  • New options
  • and more...