Would you be able to recover your files from your backup?
Nine questions, two minutes, no email. Get the same 0 to 100 score VaultGuard Backup shows on its dashboard.
VaultGuard Backup Safety Test
Nine quick questions about the computer you care about most. No email, nothing saved. You get a number from 0 to 100, the same scale VaultGuard Backup uses on its dashboard, and one honest next step.
What the number is made of
Your next step
Things the number can't see
This test scores what you remember. VaultGuard Backup scores what actually happened: it keeps a record of every backup, checks it for changes, and pulls files back out of it on a schedule to prove they come back. A backup that has never been restored can't score well, in the app or here, because nobody knows yet whether it works.
How do you know your backup actually works? covers how to test one yourself. If you'd rather have it done for you, every week, on its own: try VaultGuard Backup free.
The score is a self-assessment and can't see your computer. It is not a guarantee that anything will or won't restore.
What the test measures
The score is built from the same eight things VaultGuard Backup checks on a real computer: whether a backup exists, whether it covers the whole computer or just some folders, whether anything checks it for problems, whether a restore has ever been tested, whether a second copy exists somewhere else, whether that copy is checked and restore-tested, and whether there's a recovery drive for a computer that won't start.
Restore testing counts for more than anything else, because a backup that has never been restored is a hope, not proof. That's why an automatic, whole-computer, checked backup with an off-site copy still lands in "At risk" if nobody has ever pulled a file back out of it.
The four results: At risk (under 50), Caution (50 to 69), Safe (70 to 89), Protected (90 and up).
This test scores what you remember. VaultGuard Backup scores what actually happened on the computer.