Paragon - Drive Backup 8.5 Professional - PAR-DB85-PRO - SaverSoftware

Paragon - Drive Backup 8.5 Professional

Manufacturer - PARAGON

Price £ 59.99    (£ 51.06 exc. VAT )


PARAGON - Paragon - Drive Backup 8.5 Professional

Description

Paragon Drive Backup Professional Edition delivers cost-effective, easy-to-use and reliable protection for all workstations in a corporate network and laptops, which are usually missed from corporate backup schedule.

Besides extremely powerful backup and restore feature set for a single workstation, you receive unique possibility to manage backup jobs on other networked ones remotely. Paragon Remote Management Console enables IT Administrators easily setup and control any simple or complicated tasks on remote machines with installed Paragon Remote Management Client.

Key & New Features
Support of USB-sticks (with MBR only)
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.
Boot the computer directly from Backup Capsule (no Recovery media is required) and perform any Restore operations in case of the operating system corruption or other boot problems.
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.
User friendly interface. Easily understandable icons and wizards accompany all functions of the program.
Previewing the resulting layout of hard disks before actually executing operations (so-called virtual operations).
Archive database helps the user to manage backup images easily (get properties, add, delete, etc.).
Schedule an operation. The user can set a convenient time for the program to perform the operation automatically.
Task List that helps the user to manage scheduled operations easily (enable/disable, rename, delete, refresh or modify).
Shutdown After Apply function enables to set the computer to automatically switch off on the successful accomplishment of any scheduled operation.
Possibility to add long comments to describe archives
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.
Incremental Copy Option significantly speeds up your cloning process due to copying only sectors have been changed from the last copy action.
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 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 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

System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems:
Windows Vista (32-bit)
Windows Vista x64
Learn more about Vista compatibility
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Windows 2000 Server Family
Windows Server 2003 Family
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Windows Small Business Server 2003 Family
Windows Storage Server 2003
Supported HDD Interfaces:
Parallel ATA (IDE)
Serial ATA (SATA)
SCSI
All levels of SCSI, IDE and SATA RAID controllers
IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
USB 1.0/2.0
Support large hard disks (up to 500GB tested, 2TB in theory)
PC card storage devices.
Supported CD/DVD Formats:
CD-R
CD-RW
DVD-R
DVD-RW
DVD+R
DVD+RW
DVD+/-R (DL)

Supported File Systems:
NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
FAT16
FAT32
Ext2FS
Ext3FS
Linux Swap
HPFS
Other file systems (in Sector-by-Sector mode)

CPU: Intel Pentium, Xeon, or compatible, 233MHz or higher processor
RAM: 128 MB of RAM required (256 MB recommended)
Disk space: 40 Mb
Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher

Release Date: Monday, 7th January 2008

 


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