Cobian Reflector

Considering that storage devices can fail without notice and hardware problems can occur, creating backups for all your important data cannot be stressed enough. In addition to shielding from the unexpected, backups can also have you covered in case you have to deal with a modern and frequent threat, ransomware.

Cobian Reflector is an advanced tool that provides you with numerous tools to create backups, including of your system’s shadow copy.

While the installation is standard, you need to pay attention at some point and specify a few details for the program, namely if you want to also install the Volume Shadow Copy requester and the type of installation. As far as the latter is concerned, you can install it as a service - under any regular account or Local System account - or as an application with no autostart, autostart for all users or just for the current user.

The program comes with a user-friendly interface designed as a dashboard with the tasks displayed in the left side and the details in a bigger right panel. You can get started by accessing the Tasks menu and creating your first one by specifying various details like name, group, type, schedule along with the files to be included. You can also include pre and post-backup events.

In addition to the backup, the program also includes a few extra tools that you may find useful when creating backup, managing data and recovering. Some of the most noteworthy tools - that can be accessed from the menu with the same name - include decompressor, optimize database, translator, deleter or repair permissions.

In the eventuality that you are looking for a tool that enables you to create regular backups automatically for the important data on your computer, then perhaps you can consider giving Cobian Reflector a try.