The ability to restore not only a full image, but to extract individual files from that image.

A controlled and obvious way of managing your disk space so that you know what you’re getting.

Full image backups that you can schedule to happen automatically.It’s one of the reasons I wrote my book, Saved: Backing Up With Windows 7 Backup. While it’s capable of doing all the things that I feel are necessary, it’s not at all obvious. That being said it is, as I said, the first backup program to come with Windows where I feel comfortable saying, yes, if you do nothing else, go ahead and use it. You have little control over just where things go, and not a lot of control over exactly how the backups are created. One of the biggest issues I have with Windows 7’s program is that I have a very hard time telling exactly what it’s doing. Because backups are so incredibly important, I want things to be clear and complete. In Windows 7, the interface for backing up data only is confusingly melded with the interface for creating full image backups. While the Windows 7 backup program is perhaps the first utility built into Windows that meets what I consider the bare minimum necessary for a backup program, I definitely prefer solutions like Reflect. But the term “disk imaging utility” really implies, to me, a lot more functionality than the Windows 7 backup program actually has. Yes, it can create what we would call an image backup. To begin with, I wouldn’t call Windows 7’s backup program a disk imaging program exactly.

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