This means that admins seeking to deploy a number of Boot Camp partitions to a fleet of Macs won’t have to first run a script or manually create the Boot Camp partitions–Winclone 8 will automate this process as it executes its workflow task, saving you time. While creating the initial Boot Camp partition is something already accomplished within macOS, Winclone 8 can perform the very same task as part of its enterprise deployment workflow (more on that below).
The Pro version of Winclone includes all of the features in the standard version, as well as the following. This includes options for marking partitions as bootable or making them EFI compliant. If you need to move a partition to another device, or perhaps shrink or grow a partition in size, Winclone 8 has built-in tools to accomplish these tasks on the fly. And while they’re normally not very interoperable, Winclone 8 supports FAT32, ExFAT, and NTFS formatted partitions on the Windows side, and supports HFS+, APFS, and Core Storage volumes on the Apple side–including GPT and MBR partition types to cover all your possible configurations. Windows volumes come in a number of formats, just like Apple volumes. You can also select incremental imaging, which runs the backup tasks in the background and identifies only data sets that have changed since the last backup and updates the existing image to save time and bandwidth. Scheduling image creationĪ redesigned scheduling feature is included in Winclone 8 that allows for greater control over the creation of images by scheduling what day or time to run tasks. It also allows for volume-to-volume cloning so an exact, 100% digital copy exists of your partition should you ever need to on-board another system or re-provision your existing computer after a failure or corruption. The main feature of Winclone is to create and restore backups of data or the entire Boot Camp partition from the source system to a target, such as an external drive, cloud-based storage, or network share. Tools like Gatekeeper, System Integrity Protection, and the newest Catalina-specific protections, such as protected areas of the OS and the new read-only partition that stores macOS itself are fully compatible with Winclone 8, so you can trust that your data will be backed up properly. Notable standard features of Winclone 8 Built with macOS security in mindĪpple’s latest OSes have implemented a number of security-forward enhancements that have deprecated similar backup solutions. Switched network (only for backing up data and images over the network)
Internet connection (to activate the license key) Twocanoes Winclone 8 (or legacy versions for older versions of macOS/OS X)
It even goes so far as to provide image creation of Boot Camp partitions and the ability to create Windows PE versions of images for use with the enterprise’s Microsoft Deployment Toolkit or Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) deployment solutions for seamless rollouts.Īpple computer running macOS 10.14 or 10.15īoot Camp partition with Windows 7 (64-bit), 8.1, or 10 installed Winclone offers a level of simplicity–it has a number of granular and holistic backup approaches to safeguard data on the Windows side. Windows 11: Tips on installation, security and more (free PDF) Windows 11 cheat sheet: Everything you need to know Plan for a Windows 10/11 reinstall by following these steps Windows: Must-read coverageġ0 secret Microsoft-specific keyboard shortcuts in Windows 11
But since its inception, users had to rely on using a separate set of Windows-specific tools to back up the data on the Boot Camp side, adding to greater administrative overhead when managing two sets of OSes.
This is a boon for Mac users who must straddle the line between Apple and Windows-centric software in order to accomplish work tasks.
SEE: Apple’s 5 most important business products of the decade (free PDF) (TechRepublic)īoot Camp allows Mac users the ability to run a full version of Windows on a separate partition of the Mac’s hard drive with full driver support and use any app normally supported on any other computer. The company develops many apps for the Apple platform, but Winclone’s main feature treads into Microsoft territory with the Pro features I’ll discuss later.
Winclone, developed by Twocanoes Software, is used to create backups of Boot Camp partitions, including individual data backups of specific files or folders or the whole partition as an image to an external disk or across the network. Image: Minerva Studio, Getty Images/iStockphoto Winclone 8, is the easiest, most secure way to back up and restore Boot Camp on your Macs. Winclone 8 review: Backing up Boot Camp the easy way