How to backup partition Boot Camp?

The need to have backups of all how any important documents or the entire system is not required to explain in 2012. And if archiving OS X there is no problem in principle (thank Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner and a pile of analogues), the creation of an archive of data on Boot Camp is often a non-trivial task.

It is designed to solve the utility WincloneRising from ash and losing the status of freeware.

Winclone interface is pretty stupid and cool reminds Linux-application or creation Russian programmers. However, it is no big deal: select Boot Camp partition, specify the storage location of the image and waiting, waiting, waiting... pending the outcome will be huge image file. Reduce its size will disable paging file archiving and similar waste, which is not critical to the of your Windows.

Windows Recovery on a new Mac, or after a full reinstall OS X is trivial: create a new Windows partition and disk utility unwrap it saved the image with Winclone, which alone will restore the Windows boot loader and deploy the image to a new place. Needless to say that the new section does not have to be the same size as the previous one, would have enough space to save data ...

Reboot the Mac, waiting for the end of the verification check disk and voila, before us completely (well, as far as possible) a workable copy of Windows.
Of the additional "Fenech» Winclone worth noting the possibility of expansion / NTFS partition compression, the ability to create self-extracting archives (for some money), support for the latest versions of Microsoft operating systems and Apple.

Total: looks scary, but a working solution for users who want to work effectively with the Windows partition without leaving your favorite OS X.

Demo version Winclone missing, a complete solution is worth 20 dollars for the base version and 100 - for the professional (clearly excessive for a home user).

Official site:

→ WinClone