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Drive Backup Server Express 2008

If your small or medium sized business has a server, then you really need a simple and affordably priced backup solution. Drive Backup Server Express is the solution that you're looking for.
It provides you with complete data and system protection with unparalleled ease of use. Simply create and restore "images" or "snapshots" of the server. You can store images to a spare drive or partition, a network share or to any other external media.

Price per license: $249

Full Features


Key & New Features

  • Backup a separate partition or an entire disk including service data of the file system.
  • Paragon Hot Backup technology allows you to create backup image without restarting Windows.
  • Create and manage the backup capsule. This is a special secured place on the hard disk where backup archives are stored.
  • Backup to any media, including USB and Firewire devices.
  • Restore a partition, an entire disk or separate files from the backup archive.
  • Restore with Shrink function provides the possibility to restore a backup image to a free block of smaller size taking into account only the amount of actual data of the image.
  • Build external recovery media that help the user to restore the system even when the current operating system cannot boot anymore.
  • Archive database helps the user to manage backup images easily (get properties, add, delete, etc.).
  • Basic functions for initializing, partitioning and formatting hard disks.
  • Copy Partition/Hard Disk Wizards that enable to successfully transfer all on-disk information, thus maintaining the operating system’s working capability.
  • Easy-to-use One Button Copy Wizard provides a unique possibility to carry out such a technically complicated operation as cloning of hard disks just by pressing one button.
  • Recovering of any accidentally deleted partition by using the Undelete Partition Wizard.
  • Mount archive of a separate partition to easily browse its contents and copy the required information even with the standard Windows tools.
  • Volume Explorer utility allows the user to browse and export contents of the local mounted/unmounted volumes of any file system as well as Paragon backups.
  • DVD+/-R (DL) Support.
  • Windows Vista compatible application providing the bulk of its functionality under this operating system.

 

Basic Backup/Restore Features

  • Backup/Restore an entire hard disk
  • Backup/Restore a separate partition
  • Backup/Restore all kinds of partitions: primary, extended, logical
  • Backup/Restore the first track of a hard disk
  • Backup/Restore the MBR
  • Backup/Restore a combination of disks, partitions etc to/from one archive (several disks or/and partitions at the same time)
  • Restore a separate partition (or a set of partitions) from a backup image of the whole hard disk
  • Browse backup images (Volume Explorer)
  • Restore separate files and folders from backup archives by Volume Explorer
  • Save backup images to local drives
  • Save backup images to network
  • Burn a backup archive to CD/DVDs (or write them to ISO-image files for later burning)
  • Set archive names and add comments
  • Interrupt backup operations if necessary

 

Advanced Backup/Restore Features

  • Hot Backup of locked partitions
  • Support of two technologies for Hot Backup (Paragon Hot Processing/ Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service)
  • Synchronous Backup of multiple volumes (with MS VSS)
  • Differential Backup
  • Synthetic Backup (join a differential archive with a base archive to create a new base archive)
  • Split/Re-split/De-split (glue) existing archives
  • Compress/Re-compress/De-compress existing archives
  • Encrypt/Re-encrypt/De-encrypt existing archives (and change a password)
  • Backup dynamic volumes
  • Restore dynamic volumes to dynamic ones
  • Backup/Restore to/from the Backup Capsule
  • Create/Resize/Delete/Clean up the Backup Capsule
  • Bootable Backup Capsule (starts up the computer into recovery environment directly from Backup Capsule and performs any Restore operations in case of the operating system corruption or boot problems.)
  • Save backup archives to physical partitions (without drive letters assigned)
  • Create bootable archives on CD/DVDs
  • Resize while restoring (upwards)
  • Mount partitions automatically after restoring
  • Check archive integrity when creating archives
  • Check archive integrity of existing archives
  • Check existing Recovery Media
  • Check existing bootable archives
  • Burn existing archives to CD/DVDs
  • Reboot to the Windows Blue Screen Module (Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista) or DOS Module (Windows 98) when backing up locked partitions (if Hot Backup is disabled)

 

Hard Disk Copy Features

  • Copy an entire hard disk to another hard disk (larger or smaller)
  • Copy a specified partition to free area (not assigned to any partition, larger or smaller)
  • Can automatically expand/shrink a disk/partition
  • Hot Copy
  • Supports USB 2.0 hard drives

 

Paritioning Features

  • Create/Format/Delete partitions
  • Assign/Remove drive letters
  • Hide partitions
  • Mark a partition as active
  • Reorder primary partitions (change slots)
  • Change partition volume labels
  • Change partition serial numbers
  • Change partition IDs
  • Update the MBR
  • Change the SID
  • Check file system integrity
  • Test surface

 

Administration

  • Disable/Enable Hot Backup/Copy (always or only when a partition is locked)
  • Two options of Hot Backup/Copy to choose (Paragon Hot Processing - for backup and copy, and Microsoft VSS - only for backup)
  • Process all sectors one by one or do not process unused sectors (both for backup and copy operations)
  • Skip auxiliary files (pagefile.sys, hyberfil.sys)
  • Control archive integrity
  • Compress backup images (No/Fast/Normal/Best)
  • Encrypt and protect backup images by password
  • Split backup images (set split size)
  • Set burning speed (Minimum/Normal/Maximum/Automatic selection)
  • Set options for bootable archives
  • Specify a bootable part for bootable archives
  • Set image file names automatically
  • Run during backup options (before taking a snapshot, after taking a snapshot, after finishing the backup process)
  • Virtual mode options (enabled/disabled)
  • Enable 64KB clusters for FAT16
  • Convert FAT16 to FAT32 automatically when copying (if resizing upwards is needed)
  • Set surface test levels (Normal/Extreme)

 

Supplementary Tools

  • Recovery Media Builder: a tool to build "recovery media" to boot from in case of unbootable system
  • Check Recovery Discs: to check the recovery media for integrity and the ability to boot from
  • Recovery CD: a powerful tool to give access to all functions of Drive Backup in case of unbootable system