New Features:

Key Features:

• Hot Backup an entire hard disk, partition or any their combination (no need to restart Windows) to make a backup image of your system and data.
• Restore an entire hard disk, partition or separate files quickly in case of any disaster.
• Bare Metal Recovery restores hard drive even when you can't boot Windows.
• Differential Backup and Synthetic Backup saves time and space of hard drive.
• Scheduled Backup always keeps your backup image up-to-date.
• Wizard Driven User Interface allows performing backup jobs in seconds.
• "Generate Scrip" option, Scripts Processor and Paragon Script Language Description to automate operation routines.
• Customized logging and email notifications to be informed about backup/restore operations on a remote PC.
• Encrypt and protect backup images with password to save your confidential data.
• Full rang of hardware support include RAID and Dynamic Disks to work on any PC.
• Supports for USB and Fireware drives as well as in-built CD/DVD burner let you keep backup images on remote storage media.
• Backup Capsule to keep backup images in safe protected space on hard drive.
• Disk-to-disk copy allows provide fast and reliable hard drives upgrade.

Basic Backup Features:

• Backup an entire hard disk
• Backup a separate partition
• Backup all kinds of partitions: primary, extended, logical
• Backup the first track of a hard disk
• Backup the MBR
• Backup a combination of disks, partitions etc to one archive (several disks or/and partitions at the same time)
• Schedule backup operations
• Save backup images to local drives
• Save backup image to Backup Capsule
• Save backup image to remote USB or Fireware device
• Save backup images to network drives (with drive letters assigned)
• Burn a backup archive to CD/DVDs (or write them to ISO-image files for later burning)
• Compressing backup image
• Set archive names and add comments
• Interrupt backup operations if necessary
• Supports USB 2.0 hard drives

Basic Recovery Features

• Restore an entire hard disk, separate partition (primary, extended, logical) or any combination of disks, partitions etc from one archive
• Bare-metal restore
• Restore the first track of a hard disk
• Restore the MBR
• Browse backup images (Volume Explorer)
• Restore separate files and folders from backup archives by Volume Explorer

Administration

• Set types of scheduling (Once/At system startup/At logon/Daily/Weekly/Monthly)
• Specify a user name and password for scheduled tasks if necessary
• Set a date and time of starting scheduled backup
• Manage scheduled tasks by Tasks Editor
• Email notifications

Advanced Backup/Recovery Features:

• Hot Backup of locked partitions
• Support of two technologies for Hot Backup (Paragon Hot Processing/ Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service)
• Differential Backup
• Synthetic Backup (join a differential archive with a base archive to create a new base archive)
• 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
• 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)

User Interface Features:

• Wizard driven User Interface
• Virtual operations
• Wizards for the majority of operations
• In built Volume Explorer
• Embedded HTML browser with navigation through toolbars and menus
• Contextual operations
• Display hard disk configuration in graphic form (Disk View)
• Display all disk and partition properties (total size, size of used and free space, partition types, file systems etc)
• Display estimated archive size
• Display operation progress in graphic form and step by step
• Display archive information

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
• Incremental Copy
• Hot Copy
• Schedule Copy operations
• Supports USB 2.0 hard drives

Basic Partitioning Features:

• Create partitions
• Format partitions
• Delete partitions
• Assign drive letters
• 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
• Supports USB 2.0 hard drives

Program Settings:

• 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 VSCS - 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)
• E-mail notification options (SMTP server, user name, password, destination address, E-mail format)
• Virtual mode options (enabled/disabled)
• Operation dependency options (E-mail notification/ Shutdown connected)
• 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:

• NetBurner: to use remote CD/DVD-ROM for burning backup images to CDs/DVDs
• Image Explorer: to browse backup images, view and extract files and folders from them
• Recovery Media Builder: a tool to built "recovery media" to boot from I case of unbootable system
• Professional Recovery CD: a powerful tool to give access to all functions of Drive Backup in case of unbootable system

Remote Management Features:

• Remote management of backup tasks
• Create group of machines
• Assign customer specific scenario to client / group / common
• Assign task to turned off clients
• Create task templates
• Schedule of tasks
• View status of tasks

• Backup of remote machine
• Hot Backup of remote machine using Paragon Hot Backup
• Technology or MS VSS
• Manage Backup Capsule of remote machine
• Cyclic Backup of remote machine
• Restore of remote machine from Backup Capsule

• Copy partition of remote machine
• Copy disk of remote machine

• Create partition of remote machine
• Format partition of remote machine
• Delete partition of remote machine

• Support of script language and command line
• Silent Install
• Script manual