Why Rescue Drive?
The Only Portable Instant Recovery Solution
Rescue Drive is the only backup solution available that allows you to recover instantly from any disaster. The entire PC system, including the operating system, applications, drivers, system settings and files are all backed up to your rescue drive.
If you use OneDrive, DropBox, Box, Carbonite, or other cloud backup solutions, your files are safe, but if disaster were to strike, the time it takes to get back to work is long, irritating and frustrating.
Turn any storage device into a Rescue Drive!
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Other Key Features of Rescue Drive
FULL-DISK ENCRYPTION
Rescue Drive Professional allows you to create a full-system backup using BitLocker encryption. If your external drive is ever lost or stolen, the contents cannot be accessed without the correct password. BitLocker can be utilized on the external drive even if the internal drive is unencrypted, or is encrypted with third party encryption.
For enterprise customers, Rescue Drive supports backing up systems with McAfee Endpoint Encryption and converting to backup to BitLocker, while still maintaining bootability. If a disaster strikes such as ransomware, the internal drive can be restored from the booted BitLocker backup drive. After rebooting the PC to the newly restored internal drive, all the McAfee tools are in place and ready to re-encrypt with Endpoint Encryption.
Trusted Platform Module
BitLocker normally requires a Trusted Platform Module, or TPM, on your computer’s motherboard. This chip generates and stores the actual encryption keys. It can automatically unlock your backup drive when connected, or prompt you for the password. Rescue Drive lets you slect which behavior is best for you. When booting the backup drive, you are always asked to type your password at boot time.
If someone tampers with the PC or removes the drive from the computer and attempts to decrypt it, it can’t be accessed without the key stored in the TPM. The TPM won’t work if it’s moved to another PC’s motherboard, either. Rescue Drive also supports BitLocker encryption on PCs that don’t have a TPM module.
Group Policy Management of BitLocker Rescue Drives
Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Microsoft Intune bring the power of the intelligent cloud to Windows 10 device management, including management capabilities for Rescue Drive with BitLocker. Some of these capabilities work on Windows 10 Pro, while other capabilities require Windows 10 Enterprise or Education editions. For more information please see the following:
TURN ANY PC INTO YOUR PC
Rescue Drive lets you take your personal system with you where ever you go.
When Rescue Drive is first booted on another PC it will detect all hardware on that PC and install any needed drivers. Unlike Windows To Go, Rescue Drive can work on any hardware or backup device. The Rescue Drive environment is not virtualized, which allows you to perform full-system restores from your booted Rescue Drive to either the internal drive, or connected USB drives.
Using high speed devices like SSDs will drastically improve performance. Some external SSD drives are capable of booting as quickly as the internal drive. Please see Recommended Rescue Drives for more information.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Rescue Drive supported on the Windows Home Version?
Rescue Drive can run from Windows Home, Professional, and Enterprise.
Is Rescue Drive supported on both USB 2.0 and 3.0 drives?
Yes, but USB 3.0 and above is highly recommended.
Can I put my PC to sleep when running from Rescue Drive?
Yes, sleep is supported. Hibernation is not supported.
What happens if I remove my Rescue Drive while it’s running?
If your Rescue Drive is removed, your PC will freeze and you will have 60 seconds to reinsert the drive in the same port it was removed from. After 60 seconds, the PC will shut down.
Can I see my internal drive when running from my Rescue Drive?
Yes, the drive letters normally assigned to the backup drive will be assigned to the internal drive.
Does Rescue Drive break my Windows license agreement?
No, Windows allows you to make a single full-system backup of your PC.
Ransomware protection
Rescue Drive Professional has patent-pending technology that allows you to protect your full-system backups from ransomware. By optionally disabling the Rescue Drive after a backup completes, ransomware can’t access the drive. The Rescue Drive is only enabled while a backup is in progress. If ransomware infects your organization at any point, any systems protected with Rescue Drive Professional can be rebooted and started directly from the Rescue Drive. This feature is best utilized for desktop PCs where the Rescue Drive is always connected. Data on the drive can be accessed at any time by temporarily disabling ransomware protection in the Rescue Drive software.
Ransom Statistics
A new organization will fall victim to ransomware every 14 seconds in 2019, every 11 seconds by 2021
- 1.5 million new phishing sites are created every month
- Ransomware attacks have increased by over 97% in the past two years
- A total of 850.97 million ransomware infections were detected by the institute in 2018.
- In 2019 ransomware from phishing emails increased 109% over 2017
- Ransomware generates over $25 million in revenue for hackers each year
- Fewer than 10% of organizations who pay the ransom received their data back
- 30% of customers infected by Ransomware had a second attack within 60 days
- Global cybercrime damages predicted to cost $6 trillion by 2021
BACKUP & BOOT MULTIPLE PC'S FROM One BACKUP DRIVE
Rescue Drive Professional supports VHD backup, which enables performing full-system backups of multiple PCs to the same backup drive. In most instances, these backups can be made bootable on PCs that were not the original backup target. If Rescue Drive is installed on multiple PCs, each PC can be started from the same backup drive!
VHD backups are a snapshot of your entire system at the time a backup is performed, which allows you to boot and rollback your system to a previous backup date. Multiple VHD backups can also be mounted at the same time to allow access to previous file versions.
VHD backups can also be scheduled on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. If the backup drive fills to capacity, the oldest VHD will automatically be removed.
Purchasing a large capacity backup drive will best allow you to take advantage of this unique technology. Please see Recommended Rescue Drives for examples of large capacity backup drives.
No other backup solution available allows you to run multiple systems from multiple backups created on the same backup drive!
