Windows 7 already sports some solid user data utilities, from its built-in backup tool to the greatly improved file and settings transfer wizard and System Restore. From what has been revealed in the early leaked milestone builds of Windows 8, Microsoft is clearly focused on offering even better ways to protect and restore our data.
The Windows 8 History Vault has been talked about before. It’s built around Volume Shadow Copy Service (or VSS) and will bring Windows users an experience which is very similar to that of Time Machine on OS X, and we’re now starting to see screenshots of the History Vault in action appearing on enthusiast sites around the Web.
History Vault presents a timeline which allows users to quickly select a previous date to examine. Above, bundles of folders are displayed similar to the way Libraries are presented in Windows 7: each snapshot can contain multiple groups (like ‘important folders’ and each group can contain multiple folders

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