Windows 7 - New free backup app. From paragon

Just released the best FREE backup app. ever.

This deserves a new thread - with so many now installing a new o/s and/or dual booting, there is an even greater need for reliable backup solution.

Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 Free Edition :




FAT, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, APPLE filesystems.


* Support for the latest Windows 7

* Complete Backup - Create an exact copy of your PC including the operating system, applications, user settings and all data. Or select individual drives/partitions to backup.

* Differential Backup - backup only the archive changes

* Backup Scheduller - plan your regular backup

* new Support for all existing backup techniques, including disk and file level backups with differential or incremental updates

* new Any backup destination - including external storages, CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs, network as well as the secured hidden partition (Backup Capsule)

* new Automatic data exclusion - automate the process of building up contents of the future backup image, by excluding irrelevant data such as movies, music, etc.

* Support for GPT (GUID Partition Table) disks - back up and restore not only single GPT volumes but entire disks with the option of resize during the restore operation


32 Bbit and 64 bit program available:

Free Backup Software - Download Backup & Recovery

Free product key link:

http://www.paragon-software.com/registration/dbfe.html


screenshots:

Free Backup & Recovery Software

features:

Free Backup - Backup & Recovery

As far as I know, this is the only always free backup image app. which includes Full and Differential imaging, as well as a range of scheduling options.

Run off the bootable disc from within the program straight away - it prompts you to do so.

The boot disc contains the features of the program in bootable form.

Other free programs can be forced to go faster ( by increasing cpu usage) - none of them include all these features. I have always found the Paragon image products completely reliable.

Does Paragon Backup & Recover 10 Free run any processes in the background? Acronis runs 4 or 5 (a couple schedulers, an image mounter, something else). They use very little resources but they're there and I prefer to keep things as lean as possible.
Thanks.
Tom

I'll have a look - I don't have anything Paragon showing up in services.

I believe all the new 10 series use windows Task scheduler - I am using DB10 server - but imagine the others are the same ( even the free one).

You don't need to mount with Paragon - they provide 2 other methods of copying individual files and folders back out of an image.

Why not just d/l and install it and see. It is the free version of course, so don't expect all the bells and whistles - but there's an incredible amount considering it's free.

The free version is for drive/partition imaging. Not for file backups.

Also, it's brand new - the first released build - so have fun.

Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 Free Edition ... Has anyone tested this yet?

You're welcome.

Excellent piece of software. Thanks SIW2

You're welcome John.

Thanks SIW2, as always, you find the good stuff!!

Cheers

You're welcome Tews.

Not sure this is any better than the DB9 Pro you already have - but it's an always free product to everyone.

If you like playing with software - you might have a look at it anyway.

They Hard Disk Manager 10 will be the killer product. They are spending a long time putting it together - it won't be out for quite a while yet. HDM10 won't be free of course.

Paying for quality software has never bothered me ... its paying for garbage that always frosts my acorns... lol... Thanks again..