Complete Disaster Recovery — Full System Image Backup, Bare-Metal Recovery & Ransomware Protection
BigMIND DR is a simple, reliable way to protect your computer — system, apps, settings, and files — from hardware failure, ransomware, accidental deletion, and data loss. Unlike basic file backup, it lets you back up a full system image, restore single files, or rebuild an entire machine after a crash — even on new hardware. Your backups stay on your own drive, USB, or NAS. No expensive hardware, no complicated setup.
BigMIND DR is a simple, reliable way to protect your computer — system, apps, settings, and files — from hardware failure, ransomware, accidental deletion, and data loss. Unlike basic file backup, it lets you back up a full system image, restore single files, or rebuild an entire machine after a crash — even on new hardware. Your backups stay on your own drive, USB, or NAS. No expensive hardware, no complicated setup.
Features
- Block-level imaging: captures your full system at the block level rather than just files, enabling true bare-metal restores.
- Incremental backups: only changed blocks are captured after the first image, keeping backup windows short.
- Boot verification: local Hyper-V-based testing (Beta, free) confirms an image will actually boot before you ever need it.
- Five recovery methods: gives you a proportional response to any data-loss scenario, from one file to a full machine.
- Browse Files: drill into any backup image like a folder and download a single file instantly, no restore required.
- Single-file restore: pulls one file directly from locally stored chunks in minutes, ideal for an overwritten document.
- Mount as VHDX (Beta): builds an image into a Hyper-V virtual disk in roughly 30 minutes to 2 hours so you can browse it like a drive.
- Full-image restore: rolls the entire machine back to any recovery point at hardware speed, block-level and boot-tested.
- USB Recovery: performs a bare-metal restore on any hardware in about 2 to 3 hours using a bootable recovery stick.
- Ransomware canary detection: plants hashed decoy files in protected folders and checks them on every backup cycle.
- Tamper-triggered alerts: any modification to a decoy file immediately notifies you of active encryption.
- Chain freeze protection: detected tampering freezes the backup chain to preserve your last known-clean recovery point.
- Deterministic detection: relies on hash verification rather than machine-learning models, avoiding false positives.
- Cross-hardware USB recovery: boots and restores on hardware your original machine never used.
- Offline DISM driver injection: automatically injects the correct drivers for the new hardware during boot.
- Cross-chipset and cross-NIC support: works across different processors, network cards, and storage controllers.
- 4-click USB creator wizard: builds a single recovery stick that covers every device across your organization.
- 24-hour access code authentication: replaces email-and-password login with a short code, faster to use during an active incident.
- AES-256-GCM encryption: secures every backup chunk with authenticated encryption, protecting data at rest.
- Flexible local storage destinations: writes backup chunks to your own disk, a USB drive, or an SMB-connected NAS.
- Multi-volume support: protects multiple drives on the same device within a single backup schedule.
- Daily backup scheduling: runs automatically each day to maintain up to seven recovery points on the free tier.
- Unplug-safe backup handling: pauses automatically if a drive is disconnected and resumes from the last checkpoint.
- Recovery Shield dashboard: provides a cloud-managed view combining Fortress protection status and Escape recovery readiness.
- Archived device slot: lets you retire one old machine while keeping its last backup image restorable.
- Cloud-managed dashboard: manages backups and monitors device status through a web dashboard with no per-seat fee on the free tier.
