Paragon Backup And Recovery 10 Free Edition Portable Download

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May 26, 2024, 8:40:16 PM5/26/24

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While the imaging and whole drive/partitions functions that are present in Hard Disk Manager are disabled, all the options the average user will need for file backups are active: compression, post-backup notification and verification, logging, backup retention policies (days, # of backups, out of room), as well as full, incremental (all data since last backup), and differential (all data since last full backup) backups. You may also back up to network locations, which is not always a given in the free backup-software realm.

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Uniquely, you can also set combinations of full and incremental/differential backups. This mimics the standard IT strategy of periodic full backups as well as smaller incremental and differential backups. Usually, one full backup a week with incremental or differential backups the other six days.

The logic stems from full backups restoring faster, with incremental (really fast) and differential (fast) backups saving time during the backup phase, which occurs far more often than restoration (hopefully!), where they slow the process.

Backup & Recovery CE uses the Windows Scheduler to run backups. I heartily approve. Many programs install their own scheduler, which to me simply means another unnecessary program running in the background sucking up CPU cycles. Yes, we have processing power to spare these days, but using less of it is more. The minimum interval is daily, but you can also back up each time you log on or run the computer.

What I am sweating is the failure of the disaster recovery restore. The recovery disc, which uses the same GUI and the aforementioned Windows PE, booted fine, and the restore process proceeded apace for the first couple of partitions, but then seemingly had issues creating the actual Windows partition, noting some sort of Windows error.

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As backup storage accumulates, users can determine which files should be deleted. If your OS is no longer operable,you can boot from a USB drive for a full restoration within the Windows Preinstallation Environment. Mac users can restore from a backup through Recovery mode.

Keep in mind that some features, like copying and partitioning disks, are limited to Paragon Hard Disk Manager for Business. These tools are visible in Backup and Recovery despite being locked behind a paid license.

The application itself is just 189 MB for 64-bit Windows 10, making it a quick download on most connections. Its clean interface and thorough customization options offer robust functionality without sacrificing ease of use.

Paragon provides several informative support resources for Backup and Recovery users. The Knowledge Base acts as a starting point for any problems with the application. This section contains troubleshooting guides on crashes, installation, activation, and other common issues.

Paragon Backup and Recovery is missing a few key features, including online backups and an active support forum. That said, it contains most of the tools you need to store data and consistently update your backups, and it outperforms many other free hard drive recovery programs. You can also use Paragon to prepare a WinPE bootable environment as an ISO image or through a USB drive, making it easy to recover data after experiencing problems with your operating system.

I have the free version of Paragon back-up software. When I make a back-up image of my C-drive, I note that it is made up of 18 separate files of about 4 MB each. Other back-up software produces only one file that I save to an external hard drive. Is there any way to do this with Paragon?
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I've tried many drive-image back-up programs and all of them have failed me in some way, sometimes in a major way. That is, except for Paragon. I tested its ability to create and then restore disk images several times. Most recently I used it to clone a boot drive and restore its image to a different drive. The full Paragon Hard Disk manager does lots of other disk management tasks besides system backups - and it does them better than Windows. I like it so much that I even bought extra licenses for it to cover all my computers.

The only fly in the ointment regarding Paragon is that the newest versions do not allow you to make a Windows emergency boot disk easily. You now have to download all kinds of crapola from Microsoft to do this. Paragon apparently lost their right to use the Windows emergency boot program as part of their own emergency boot disk.

At this point, I trust Paragon - certainly more than the other available backup software. However, I'll never again make the mistake of relying on just one backup method again. I've been burned too many times in the past. I suggest that you additionally use a copy-paste kind of backup program for all of your critical data. SyncBack (free) is the one I've been using for several years but there are plenty of other such programs available.

I deal with this issue mostly in data centers, but a big issue with a lot of these products is they allow you to conveniently back-up your system drives, but aren't very reliable when it comes to restoring.

I think the smaller the number for file split size, the greater the resulting number of files in the archive folder , so reducing the GB should result in many more files in the archived backup. I don't even know what would happen if this was set to zero.

Perhaps checking that box and manually raising it to the estimated size (found on one of the screens as you set up the backup) of the archive would result in only a single large file in the folder, but I've never tried this.

Great program but absolutely terrible documentation. I've contacted Paragon several times a few years ago and even their own techs couldn't explain lots of things. I figured out most of what I needed it to do through trial and error and running practice backups and restores on an extra drive.

I recently made the switch to Macrium Reflect FREE Edition. It's smaller, faster, and simpler -- much nicer to use. So far, it seems to work well. I have only run one full recovery operation but that was smooth as silk.

I did try to change the Paragon "capsule setting" under advanced tools to make the file larger. It asked me to reboot the computer and when I did it locked me into a process I could not recover from. So I powered off the computer and then restarted. When I did I got the message -- "Your computer was unable to start. Startup Repair is checking your system for problems". Fortunately, Windows 7 was able to repair itself and the computer now works. The Paragon software is the only disc imaging software I have ever used that exhibited this problem, so I think it is a dangerous program to use. I read that the current Paragon does not offer a disc recovery. However I note one in the 2012 version of Paragon Tools as seen here:

I haven't fooled around with the capsule settings you are referring to and have no idea what that does, but I don't think it has anything to do with the sizes of the splits in the disk image backup. I'll have to check it out. That was a scary experience you had but I'm glad you were able to recover.

When I get to the "Backup Image Options" box in the Wizard, do I uncheck the "Enable Image Splitting" box at the bottom under the "Image Splitting" section to make for only one file for my back-up image?

"The only fly in the ointment regarding Paragon is that the newest versions do not allow you to make a Windows emergency boot disk easily. You now have to download all kinds of crapola from Microsoft to do this. Paragon apparently lost their right to use the Windows emergency boot program as part of their own emergency boot disk."