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Drive Backup
Drive Backup

Drive Backup 8.5

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Key & New Features
Basic Backup Features
Basic Recovery Features
User Interface Features
Hard Disk Copy Features
Advanced Backup/Recovery Features
Administration
Basic Partitioning Features
Program Settings
Supplementary Tools

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


“Works with Windows Vista” logo.
Paragon Drive Backup 8.5 is Windows Vista compatible and got "Works with Vista" logo.


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AWARDS


Paragon Drive Backup 8.0 was reviewed by the leading USA PC Magazine. The author says that: "It's fairly intuitive, and it backs up your data on the fly-without a reboot and even as you're running other applications. The basic "backup wizard" couldn't be simpler. I simply selected the drive I wanted to back up. I chose where I wanted to back it up to. And I was done.


Paragon Drive Backup 8.0 was reviewed TopTenReviews in "Disk Imaging Software review 2006 comparison article and received the Silver Award.
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