Volume Snapshot Manager with ColdSnap™ provides the most flexible and reliable methods to backup your systems. ColdSnap creates a volume snapshot during boot time that is available for backup once the system is online. This method eliminates the costly downtime normally needed for offline cold state backups.
ColdSnap is StorageCraft’s revolutionary new product that takes a snapshot of your Windows volume(s) during boot time. Avoid booting into another operating system or waiting for a large
backup or an image file to write to disk before returning the system to production.
ColdSnap provides the following features:
- Captures a snapshot of your volume(s) during boot time
- Provides direct or drive letter access to snapshot once system is online
- Snapshot multiple volumes simultaneously
- Avoid costly downtime due to offline backups and imaging
Volume Snapshot Manager ensures mission critical data is protected even when files are open
or in use during backup periods. Volume Snapshot Manager includes precise online volume
snapshots, hot rollback, direct access or drive letter access to mountable snapshots and simple
integration via the Volume Snapshot Manager API for storage, data protection, disaster recovery
and backup products.
Volume Snapshot Manager provides the following features:
- Open file volume-based snapshots
- API for simple integration to backup and disaster recovery applications
- Snapshot multiple volumes simultaneously. Critical for applications such as
databases that span multiple volumes - Mountable snapshot support
- Supports direct access or drive letter access to snapshots
- Hot rollback support
- Data write redundancy elimination
- Read-only or read-write volume support
- Windows Management Interface (WMI) support
Volume Snapshot Manager with ColdSnap combines the best solutions available for open file
management and cold state backup.
| Backup Integrity | Open File Backup | Off Line Backup | Data Corruption | System Downtime |
| Volume Snapshot Manager | ColdSnap | Kernel Sockets SDK | Custom Development | Consulting |