Paragon Backup & Recovery 14 10.1.25.779 (32-bit)

Paragon Backup & Recovery Free Edition is a time-tested backup and recovery tool. With it, you will have full control over the security of your system and data. Based on solid commercial backup and recovery software from Paragon Software, Backup & Recovery Free Edition will give you a rich set of features that you can trust.

Community Edition is available completely free for non-commercial purposes only. For commercial use, check out Paragon Hard Disk Manager.

Free Edition can easily create an exact copy of your hard drive, including the operating system, applications, user settings, and all data. Differential backup will allow you to make a backup of only the changed data, thereby speeding up the process and considerably saving the backup storage space.



You can place a backup image to a special secured place on the hard disk and get an additional level of security to all archives which it contains.

Paragon Backup & Recovery CE also helps you to choose any backup destination - including external storage, CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs, network as well as the secured hidden partition. You'll be able to return the computer to a previous state without losing data and reinstalling and reconfiguring your programs just in one click any time you need it.

Restore fast an entire disk, separate partitions, or only files you need from the previously Created Backup Image. Even more, you can use Restore with Shrink option - to restore a backup image to a free block of smaller size taking into account only the amount of actual data of the image.



You can also create a bootable USB Flash Drive to recover your PC on demand and much more. Protecting data today with Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition ensures a safe recovery tomorrow, so start your backups now.

Features and Highlights

• Complete Backup - create an exact copy of your PC including the operating system, applications, user settings, and all data.
• Differential Backup - backup only changed data.
• Backup Scheduler - plan your regular backup.
• Complete Restore - restore your computer to an earlier state without losing data, reinstalling, and reconfiguring your programs.
• Recovery based on need - an entire disk, separate partitions, or specific files.
• Create bootable rescue media with Recovery Media Builder.
• Backup Capsule - place a backup image to a special secured place on the hard disk.
• Various backup media - backup to external storage, CD / DVD / Blu-ray discs on the network, or in the Backup Capsule.
• Rescue media Configurator - create a bootable rescue media to boot the system in case of an emergency.
• Partitioning - create, format, delete partitions, assign / remove drive letter, set acrive / inactive.
• Operations with Archives - create bootable archives, mount, unmount, add and delete archives to/from database and others.
• Revised User Interface - the interface enhanced by predefined views, which enables to adjust of particular customer needs.

Pricing

Community Free Edition

• Backup files, folders, disks, OS. Restore from file and point. Schedule backups, backup/restore in WinPE.

Hard Disk Manager for Business - $99

• For commercial use
• Support Windows server
• Partition disks, volumes
• Copy disks, Os
• Notifications
• Included all functionality CE and much more

Supported Computer Bus Interfaces

• Parallel ATA
• SATA
• External SATA
• All levels of SCSI, IDE and SATA RAID controllers
• SCSI
• USB
• IEEE 1394
• All types of RAIDs (hardware and software)
• PC or PCMCIA Card (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association)

Supported Storage

• Storage Spaces Support
• AFD (Advanced Format Drive)
• Non-512B sector size drives
• SSD and HDD
• Any common optical disk device

Supported File Systems

• NTFS
• FAT32
• Ext2 and newer
• ReiserFS 3
• Linux Swap
• HPFS (Only view. All other operations in 1:1 mode)
• Apple HFS+
• B-tree FS (Btrfs)
• Extents FS (XFS)

Hardware Requirements

• Intel Pentium CPU or its equivalent, with 1000 Mhz processor clock speed
• 1 GB+ RAM
• Internet Explorer 10 or higher
• Hard Disk Drive with 250 MB of available space
• SVGA video adapter and monitor
• Opened ports in Firewall: inbound and outbound 80, 443
• WinPE based Recovery CD

Additional Requirements

• Network card to send/retrieve data to/from a network computer (internet connection)
• Recordable CD/DVD drive to burn data to compact discs
• External USB hard drive to store data

PROS

• Comprehensive Backup Options
• User-Friendly Interface
• Incremental Backup Support
• Bootable Recovery Media Creation
• Advanced Partition Management

CONS

• Limited Cloud Backup Options
• Lack of Encryption for Free Users
• Slower Backup Speeds
• Basic Technical Support

Note: Limited functionality in the demo version.