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Drive Backup 9.0 Personal

Protect your hardware, undo software malfunctions or crashes, and safeguard your data with our latest Drive Backup 9.0 Personal Edition. Our feature-rich software easily restores your system whenever disaster strikes, and optimizes storage utilization to keep your system running at top speed.

Along with our reliable entire disk backup, this powerful application provides you with a new approach to file backup and enhanced recovery tools. Use its Smart Backup to free up disk space.  You can now recover/restore your PC or laptop with our handy bootable, portable rescue USB flash drive.

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Full Features


New & Key Features

  • Support of USB-sticks (with MBR only)
  • Backup separate partitions or entire disks including service data of the file system
  •  Backup only specific files and folders rather than an entire drive
  •  Create incremental file archives for backup images of separate partitions, or perform file-level backups and keep only necessary changes
  • Paragon Hot Backup technology creates backup images without restarting Windows
  • Backup Capsule management for secure archive storage on your hard disk
  •  Boot the computer directly from dual-boot Backup Capsule, choose your recovery environment  and perform any restore operations in case of system corruption or other boot problems
  •  Exclude unnecessary files and folders from a backup to reduce size of resulting image
  • Backup to any media, including USB and Firewire devices
  • Updated! Restore a partition, an entire disk or separate files and folders from backup archives
  •  Restore Windows Vista to completely different hardware or even to a virtual machine
  • Restore with Shrink™ function restores backup images to free sections of smaller partitions by using only the amount of actual data in the image
  •  Build external recovery media on flash memory and get all the program features on a compact, reliable and fast device
  • User friendly interface with intuitive icons and wizards for all program functions
  • Virtually preview the resulting layout of hard disks before executing operations
  • Archive database for easy management of backup images (get properties, add, delete, etc.)
  • Operation scheduling for convenient, automatic performance
  • Task List for easy management of scheduled operations (enable/disable, rename, delete, refresh or modify tasks)
  • Shutdown After Apply function allows automatic shutdown after task completion
  • Describe archives in detail with comment section
  • Basic functions for initializing, partitioning and formatting hard disks 
  • Mount archives of separate partitions to browse contents and copy information with standard Windows tools
  • Volume Explorer utility for browsing and exporting mounted or unmounted volumes of any file system as well as Paragon backups
  •  Compatible with GPT hard disk partitioning scheme developed to lift restrictions of the old MBR
  •  Blu-Ray Disc Support
  •  Windows Vista 32- and 64-bit compatible application with increased functionality
     

Basic Backup Features

  • Backup an entire hard disk or separate partitions - primary, extended or logical 
  • Backup the first track of a hard disk , MBRs, individual files and folders 
  • Backup different combinations of disks and partitions to one archive
  • Schedule backup operations - Set and forget!
  • Save backup images to local drives, Backup Capsules, networks, external USB or Firewire Devices
  • Burn a backup archive to CD/DVD/BDs or write them to ISO-image files to burn later
  • Compress backup images
  • 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 partitions (primary, extended, logical) or any combination of disks and partitions from one archive
  • Restore individual files and folders from file-level backup
  • Restore on Bare-metal 
  • Restore the first track of a hard disk and the MBR 
  • Browse backup images by Volume Explorer
  • Restore individual files and folders by File Transfer Wizard

 

User Interface Features

  • Wizard driven User Interface for the majority of operations
  • Contextual Help for all User Interface controls
  • Virtual and Contextual operations
  • Built-in Volume Explorer
  • Embedded HTML browser with navigation through toolbars and menus
  • Graphical hard disk configuration displays for:  disk and partition properties (total size, used, free space, partition types and file systems), estimated archive size, step-by-step operation progress

 

Advanced Backup/Recovery Features

  • Hot Backup™ of locked partitions
  • Differential Backup
  • Incremental File Backup
  • Exclude files and folders during backup
  • Create/Resize/Delete the Backup Capsule
  • Save backup archives to physical partitions (without assigning drive letters)
  • Create bootable archives on CD/DVDs
  • Resize while restoring
  • Mount partitions automatically after restoring
  • Check archive integrity of existing archives  or when creating new ones
  • Check existing Recovery Media and bootable archives
  • Reboot to the Windows Blue Screen Module (Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista) or special recovery environment (Windows XP/Vista 64-bit), 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 Scheduled Tasks Editor

 

Basic Partitioning Features

  • Creates, formats, deletes, hides/unhides partitions 
  • Assign/Remove drive letters 
  • Mark a partition as Active/Inactive
  • Reorder primary partitions (change slots)
  • Change partition volume labels, serial numbers and IDs
  • Update the MBR, check file system integrity, and test surfaces
  • Supports USB 2.0 hard drives

 

Program Settings

  • Disable/Enable Hot Backup™ of locked partitions
  • Process all sectors one by one or skip unused sectors (both for backup and copy operations)
  • Skip auxiliary files (pagefile.sys, hyberfil.sys) and archived backup images
  • Exclude files and folders matching defined mask during backup
  • 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: builds a new "recovery media" to boot from in case of an unbootable system
  • Check Recovery Discs: checks the recovery media for integrity and boot ability 
  • Recovery CD: a powerful tool to give access to all functions of Drive Backup in case of an unbootable system
  • View Logs: view in-depth information about any operation carried out by the program