New Features:
* Windows Vista compatible application providing the bulk of its functionality under this operating system.
* Cyclic Backup performs regular backups and automatically manages them.
* Hot Backup of Dynamic Volumes
* Dynamic disks can be automatically resized during restore to fit maximal volume.
* Archive database helps the user to easily manage backup images (get properties, add, delete, etc.)
* Mount archive of a separate partition to easily browse its contents and copy the required information even with the standard Windows tools.
* 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.
* File Transfer Wizard enables you to extract important files and folders from the partition and export them to another local or network drive, or burn them to CD/DVD even after system crash.
* 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.
* Incremental Copy Option significantly speeds up your cloning process due to copying only sectors have been changed from the last copy action.
* Task List that helps the user to easily manage scheduled operations (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
* DVD+/-R (DL) Support.
Key Features:
* Hot Backup an entire hard disk, partition or any their combination (no need to restart Windows) to make a backup image of your system and data.
* Restore an entire hard disk, partition or separate files quickly in case of any disaster.
* Bare Metal Recovery restores hard drive even when you can't boot Windows.
* Differential Backup and Synthetic Backup saves time and space of hard drive.
* Scheduled Backup always keeps your backup image up-to-date.
* Wizard Driven User Interface allows performing backup jobs in seconds.
* "Generate Scrip" option, scripts Processor and Paragon script Language Description to automate operation routines.
* Customized logging and email notifications to be informed about backup/restore operations on a remote PC.
* Encrypt and protect backup images with password to save your confidential data.
* Full rang of hardware support include RAID and Dynamic Disks to work on any PC.
* Supports for USB and Fireware drives as well as in-built CD/DVD burner let you keep backup images on remote storage media.
* Backup Capsule to keep backup images in safe protected space on hard drive.
* Disk-to-disk copy allows provide fast and reliable hard drives upgrade.
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 drives (with drive letters assigned)
* 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
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 (Volume Explorer)
* Restore separate files and folders from backup archives by Volume Explorer
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
* Email notifications
Advanced Backup/Recovery Features:
* Hot Backup of locked partitions
* Support of two technologies for Hot Backup (Paragon Hot Processing/ Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service)
* Differential Backup
* Synthetic Backup (join a differential archive with a base archive to create a new base archive)
* Compress/Re-compress/De-compress existing archives
* Encrypt/Re-encrypt/De-encrypt existing archives (and change a password)
* Backup dynamic volumes
* Restore dynamic volumes to dynamic ones
* Create/Resize/Delete/Clean up the Backup Capsule
* Bootable Backup Capsule (starts up the computer into recovery environment directly from Backup Capsule and performs any Restore operations in case of the operating system corruption or boot problems.)
* 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/2003/Vista) or DOS Module (Windows 9
when backing up locked partitions (if Hot Backup is disabled)
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
* Incremental Copy
* Hot Copy
* Schedule Copy operations
Basic Partitioning Features:
* Create partitions
* Format partitions
* Delete partitions
* Assign drive letters
* Remove drive letters
* Hide partitions
* Mark a partition as active
* 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
Program Settings:
* Disable/Enable Hot Backup/Copy (always or only when a partition is locked)
* Two options of Hot Backup/Copy to choose (Paragon Hot Processing - for backup and copy, and Microsoft VSCS - only for backup)
* 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 (Minimum/Normal/Maximum/Automatic selection)
* Set options for bootable archives
* Specify a bootable part for bootable archives
* Set image file names automatically
* Run during backup options (before taking a snapshot, after taking a snapshot, after finishing the backup process)
* E-mail notification options (SMTP server, user name, password, destination address, E-mail format)
* Virtual mode options (enabled/disabled)
* Operation dependency options (E-mail notification/ Shutdown connected)
* Enable 64KB clusters for FAT16
* Convert FAT16 to FAT32 automatically when copying (if resizing upwards is needed)
* Set surface test levels (Normal/Extreme)
Supplementary Tools:
* NetBurner: to use remote CD/DVD-ROM for burning backup images to CDs/DVDs
* Image Explorer: to browse backup images, view and extract files and folders from them
* Recovery Media Builder: a tool to built "recovery media" to boot from I case of unbootable system
* Professional Recovery CD: a powerful tool to give access to all functions of Drive Backup in case of unbootable system
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