Key & New Features:

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
• 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 by Volume Explorer
• Restore separate files and folders from backup archives by Volume Explorer

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

Advanced Backup/Recovery Features:

• Support of two technologies for Hot Backup (Paragon Hot Processing/ Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service)
• Hot Backup of locked partitions
• Differential Backup
• Compress/Re-compress/De-compress existing archives
• Encrypt/Re-encrypt/De-encrypt existing archives (and change a password)
• Create/Resize/Delete the Backup Capsule
• 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/Vista) or DOS Module (Windows 98), when backing up locked partitions (if hot processing is disabled)

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

Basic Partitioning Features:

• Create partitions
• Format partitions
• Delete partitions
• Assign/Remove drive letters
• Hide/Unhide partitions
• Mark a partition as Active/Inactive
• 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)
• 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 (Maximum/Medium/Minimum/Automatic selection)
• Set options for bootable archives
• Specify a bootable part for bootable archives
• Set image file names automatically
• E-mail notification options (SMTP server, user name, password)
• 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 (None/Normal/Extreme)

Supplementary Tools:

• Recovery Media Builder: a tool to built "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