Paragon Drive Backup Paragon Drive Backup provides you with a wide range of basic and advanced backup and restore functions, features and abilities required to manage server-based network.

Paragon Drive Backup
vendor: Paragon

Drive Backup Server Edition reduces risks of data damage or loss, system crash or downtime, saving precious time, efforts and costs. It provides you with a wide range of basic and advanced backup and restore functions, features and abilities required to manage server-based network. Drive Backup Server Edition is a substantially different product.

It allows you to create exact server disk image for complete backup and totally protects your system and corporate data in any disaster case. Drive Backup Server provides you with the most comprehensive and cost effective backup, restore and recovery capabilities for servers and workstations. New, the most intuitive and convenient interface simplifies management of backup procedures offering greater flexibility to IT professionals and system administrators:

• Real-time server disk backup: Backup your Windows Server without interrupting its activity. Save backup archives to local or network drive or make them bootable and burn directly to CDs/DVDs for safe and reliable restoration in case of unbootable system.
• Backup Capsule: a unique feature of Drive Backup Server providing you with the most secure place for keeping your backup image on your hard drive, preventing accidental deletion or unwanted access to it.
• Dynamic disks support: work with full range dynamic volumes (simple, spanned, stripped, mirrored, RAID-5).
• Quick restore at any time: performing entire system restore, a bare-metal server restore from bootable archives or just restore of necessary materials.
• Make a work of system administrator more productive: Built-in Scheduler along with Script Generator.

Drive Backup Server Edition also includes some very helpful features: Image Explorer, made to browse your backup archives for separate files and folders with possibility to extract them, and Recovery Media Builder for creating bootable CDs/DVDs to use when you are not able to start your operating system in a common way.

Drive Backup Server provides also a variety of other supplementary features disk copy, basic partitioning and simple recovery.

Here you find the full list of Paragon Drive Backup features:

Backup/Restore Features:

• Backup/Restore an entire hard disk
• Copy/clone hard disk
• Backup/Restore a separate partition (primary, extended, logical)
• Backup/Restore the first track of a hard disk
• Backup/Restore the MBR
• Backup/Restore a combination of disks, partitions etc to/from one archive
• Dynamic disks backup: full range of dynamic volumes is supported
• Restore a separate partition from a backup image of the whole hard disk
• Restore separate files and folders from backup archives
• Save backup archives to local/network drives
• Burn a backup archive to CD/DVDs (or write them to ISO-image files for later burning)
• Set archive names and add comments
• Interrupt backup operations if necessary

Advanced Backup/Restore Features:

• Hot Backup of locked partitions
• Reboot to the Windows Blue Screen Module (Windows NT/2000/XP) or to the DOS Module (Windows 9x) when backing up locked partitions (if Hot Backup is disabled)
• Backup/Restore to/from the Backup Capsule
• Bare metal restore
• Create bootable archives on CD/DVDs
• Save backup archives to physical partitions (without drive letters assigned)
• Resize while restoring partitions
• Generate scripts
• Verify data when writing

Backup Settings:

• Disable/Enable Hot Backup (always or only when a partition is locked)
• Process all sectors one by one or do not process unused sectors
• 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 image file names automatically

Scheduling Features:

• Set types of scheduling (Once/At system startup/At logon/Daily/Weekly/Monthly)
• Set a date and time of starting scheduled backup
• Manage scheduled tasks by Tasks Editor

User Interface Features:

• Flexible and adjustable launcher interface
• Wizards for all operations
• Embedded HTML browser with navigation through toolbars and menus
• Multiple means of control and navigation (pull-down menus, user-defined menus, toolbars, active icons, bookmarks)
• Contextual operations
• Display hard disk configuration in graphic form
• Display partition types, file systems, total size, size of used and free space
• Display estimated archive size
• Display operation progress in graphic form and step by step
• Display archive information

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

Partitioning Features:

• Create partition
• Format partition
• Delete partition
• Remote burning to CD/DVD

Compatibility Features:

• P-ATA (IDE); S-ATA (SATA); SCSI; IEEE 1394 (FireWire); USB 1.x/2.0
• Supports large hard disks (up to 500GB tested, 2TB in theory)
• Supports long filenames (FAT, NTFS) and filenames in national languages
• NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1); FAT16/FAT32; Ext2FS/Ext3FS; Linux Swap
• actually, any file system can be backed up and then restored, requiring just some more memory for keeping the resulting backup image

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP, Windows NT/2000/2003 Server, Windows PE
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
• Intel Pentium CPU or its equivalent, with 300 MHz processor clock speed
• 128 MB of RAM
• Hard disk drive with 40 MB of available space
• SVGA video adapter and monitor
• Mouse

Paragon Drive Backup Paragon Drive Backup provides you with a wide range of basic and advanced backup and restore functions, features and abilities required to manage server-based network. Product licence price Buy online Paragon Drive Backup Personal Licence  49,95 USD Purchase Paragon Drive Backup Professional Licence  99,95 USD Purchase Paragon Drive Backup Server Licence  399,00 USD Purchase