Free Hard Drive Backup Software: Paragon Backup & Recovery Free Edition

Full Features

Backup Features

  • Cyclic Backup - complete infrastructure for establishing a self-acting data protection system, fully compliant with the set-and-forget backup policy
  • Support for the latest hardware as well as hard disk partitioning schemes.
  • Support of all present day techniques to store backup images
  • Disk backup to save not only all on-disk information but also the system service structures. It is ideal for making a backup image of an entire hard disk (including GPT-discs!) or system partitions to guarantee the operating system’s working capability
  • Differential backup  to a sector image to only archive changes since the last full sector-based image, thus considerably saving the backup storage space. To restore this kind of backup you will require a full image and one of its differentials

Restore Facilities

  • Restore an entire disk, separate partitions image
  • Restore with Shrink to restore a backup amount of actual data of the image
  • Create bootable USB Flash drive, CD or DVD to recover your PC on demand 

Advanced Backup Tasks

  • Differential Partition Backup (Create a differential image of a partition)

Supplementary Tools

  • Recovery Media Builder: builds a new "recovery media" to boot from in case of an unbootable system
  • Check Recovery Discs: checks the recovery media for integrity and boot ability 

User Friendly Fault Minimizing Interface

  • Graphical representation of the data to gain a better understanding
  • Comprehensive wizards to simplify even the most complex operations
  • A context sensitive hint system for all functions of the program
  • Previewing the resulting layout of hard disks before actually executing operations (so-called virtual operations) 

Partitioning tools 

  • Create Partition
  • Format Partition
  • Delete Partition
  • Assign/Remove Drive Letter
  • Hide/Unhide Partition
  • Mark Partition as Active/Inactive
  • Modify: change volume label,Test Surface
  • Check File System Integrity

Operations with Archives

  • Add an archive to the database
  • Delete the archive from the database
  • Restore from the selected archive
  • Restore File From Archive
  • Differential backup
  • Check Archive Integrity
  • Mount/Unmount the archive

 


 

System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

  • Windows 7 (32/64-bit)
  • Windows Vista (32/64-bit)
  • Windows XP Professional SP2 (32/64-bit)
  • Windows XP Home SP2
  • Windows 2000 Professional SP4 
  • For server operating systems backup see
    Paragon Drive Backup Server Edition

 

Supported Hard Drives and Removable Media

  • Parallel ATA (IDE) HDD
  • Serial ATA (SATA) HDD
  • External SATA (eSATA) HDD
  • SCSI HDD
  • All levels of SCSI, IDE and SATA RAID controllers
  • USB 1.x/2.0 and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) devices
  • PC card storage devices
  • GUID Partition Table (GPT)

 

Supported File Systems

  • NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
  • FAT16
  • FAT32
  • Linux Ext2FS
  • Linux Ext3FS
  • Linux Ext4FS
  • Linux Swap
  • HPFS
  • Limited read/write access to Apple HFS+ partitions.

 

System Requirements

  • CPU: Intel Pentium or compatible, 300MHz or higher processor
  • RAM: 256 MB or greater recommended
  • Disk space: 100 Mb
  • Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
  • Mouse
  • SVGA video adapter and monitor

   

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