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Snapshot for Mac OS X SDK From Paragon Software

To create block-level archives of OS X volumes

Paragon Software Group Corp. announces Snapshot for Mac OS X, an snapshot technology that allows users to create block-level archives of OS X volumes.

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With Snapshot for Mac OS X, incremental backups contain only the blocks that have changed instead of the entire file, the way traditional backup and archive software work. The technology is available for licensing to developers who publish backup software, as well as providers who specialize in DR.

On OS X, traditional backup archives are created at the file level by Apple’s built-in Time Machine and other third-party software that work in a similar fashion. Snapshot for Mac OS X is a technology that allows users to create block-level archives of OS X volumes. Recovery from images made with Snapshot for Mac OS X are at least four times faster than restoring from existing Time Machine backups. Compared to file-level backups, the software with integrated Snapshot for Mac OS X technology will also provide a higher compression rate for archived files. Among other advantages, Snapshot for Mac OS X works 100% online while OS X is running, requiring no system restart or reboot. With this snapshot technology in place, incremental backups will be smaller, because the block-level imaging stores only the blocks that have changed.

Once integrated, company’s snapshot will prove invaluable for Mac owners, providing them with an option to elevate and accelerate backup routines. When disaster strikes, Snapshot for Mac enables hassle-free recovery from snapshot-based backup archives, which is more efficient than recovering from file-level backups. Just like the company’s cross-platform Universal File System Driver, Snapshot for Mac OS X supports all file systems, even those not natively supported by OS X (e.g., Windows NTFS and Linux ExtFS).

Being installed on the lower level than a file system, the utility can take snapshots of disks without a file system at all. It means that a third-party developer using company’s snapshot technology to work with unformatted disks (e.g. with deleted volumes, etc.) can develop new approaches to address users’ needs.

Snapshot for Mac OS X allows to:

  • Quickly and backup running applications and system-locked files;

  • Create RAW disk images;

  • Image any type of volume, including Windows NTFS or Linux ExtFS-formatted partitions.

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Why Snapshot for Mac OS X?

  • Mac computers have become increasingly popular in content development and other business segments where data loss can be a nightmare. Retrieval of data, multimedia, and system files can be a very risky task.

  • The majority of current OS X backup solutions work at the file level. As a result, such backup archives contain all files at different moments of time, so their states may differ. Users may not be even aware of such concerns, and continue changing files that reside within a group. Compared to sector-level, snapshot-based images, file-based backups do not guarantee consistency for a group of files. By comparison, the advantage of a snapshot is that the image-based backup contains changes made at the very moment the snapshot is taken, so all associated files in the group are in the same state.

  • Snapshot for Mac OS X package includes a single-license SDK for both OEMs and ISVs who may want to build their backup or other software solutions.

  • Benchmark tests have shown that system restores from a snapshot-based backup take considerably less time than the same recovery from file-based backups. This ensures shorter downtime and quicker access to the required data, which is absolutely critical for businesses and end users alike.

  • When it comes to incremental backup, recovery from a snapshot-based image of a typical OS X workstation of firm’s software’s QA engineers ran two to four times faster compared to a recovery from a file-based backup; this difference becomes particularly noticeable with larger archives.

System requirements:
Supports Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and later, including the latest OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

Snapshot for Mac OS X is available for licensing. The company provides flexible licensing packages for independent software developers as well as large DR solution vendors.

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