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Download of the Week: Paragon Backup and Recovery

Posted 11/04/09 at 07:15:25 PM by Florence Ion

It can be challenging to find a free hard disk backup utility that actually works well and doesn’t plague your computer with irritating nagware. Fortunately, the Paragon Software Group has released a consumer version of their popular Backup & Recovery software previously only available to IT technicians and professionals.

Backup & Recovery has an easy to use interface for even the more inexperienced of users.

Backup & Recovery 10 Free Edition is a hard drive management application that will create and restore bits and pieces of your hard drives and partitions, ensuring that all of your data comes out as squarely as it went into the vault. You can schedule when to back up your files and create differential jobs, which allows you to back up only files that have changed since the last back up (this is perfect for libraries like Documents and Music). Additionally, if you really want the security of being able to restore your files in case of a system crash, you can use the Recovery Media Builder to boot your computer in case your operating system is out of function.

Use differential jobs to selectively decide what you want backed up.

Before you download the application, you will need to register with a valid email address. It takes about fifteen minutes for Paragon to send you an active serial number. Once you’ve received your information, plug it in and begin using your new back up toolkit. It’s free for non-commercial use and there are versions available for both 32 and 64-bit Windows operating system.

Download Paragon Backup & Recovery here.

Every Wednesday, we pick a new free or shareware download as our favorite of the week. Have a nifty application that you can't live without? Send suggestions to fion [AT] futureus.com with "Download of the Week" in the subject line.

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It's interesting that you
Submitted by FunkySquirrel on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 12:09pm

It's interesting that you dinged Avast AV for having to register with an email address ("what do we do if their servers ever shut down oh noes the panikz is on!!!!!!!!!one"), but you're perfectly comfortable with this program, which does the exact same thing.

But I guess any PC mag that would rather trash a product's interface because it looks too much like a media player (especially an interface you'll never have to look at again, if everything works properly), than give the product its due props for working the way it should, and working very well at it, can't be bothered to be too consistent.

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i didn;t know Paragon was
Submitted by nekollx on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 12:14pm

i didn;t know Paragon was a AV suite, wow!

Further more I cant even find the score for Paragon, where is the score that convietly ignores the registered email and dings it a point for it?

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Paragon to Linux
Submitted by HokieTechie on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 5:58am

I used an earlier version of Paragon for a while, but I eventually concluded that it was "slightly flakey" - just a little bit to complex for its own good, not quite transparent enough in its controls and settings, and only 99% reliable where it needs to be 99.96% reliable.

I've also moved to a linux backup solution - dd for the MBR, partition table, and Luks partitions, tar for ext3, and ntfsclone for NTFS. I sleep alot better at night.

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Paragon Backup
Submitted by stinger608 on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 5:55am

I have used Paragon's products in the past, and they seem to be a real solid application. Seemed to be well on par with backup's programs such as Acronis True Image.

And for free!!! I am getting it so I can pass it along to folks that can't afford to purchase Acronis or Paragon!

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I prefer df if=/dev/sda
Submitted by damicatz on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 7:57pm

I prefer df if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/sdb/backup.img bs=128k

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better then cobian
Submitted by nekollx on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 5:09pm

better then cobian 9?

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Cobian rocks but I'm willing
Submitted by lunchbox73 on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 7:36am

Cobian rocks but I'm willing to give this a look. I've used their server partition tool and that is very good.

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