Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Professional Full Download

Our latest Professional Backup 9.0 Edition can do more with 40 minutes of your time than any other professional backup software on the market. How? With advanced total backup/restore functionality and our highly rated tool set    - advanced users leverage the robust technology of Paragon’s Drive Backup Business solutions. Use Drive Backup Professional regularly and protect your technology investment.

Drive Backup 9.0 Professional allows you to:

Backup and Restore your system without the time consuming process of applications setup and customization in the event of a system crash.
Perform system backup without interrupting Windows using one of two Hot Processing technologies including Paragon Hot Backup™ Technology
NEW! Paragon File-Level backup™— provides full file-level backup/restore functionality including incremental backups allowing Backing up only the specific files and folders you choose rather than saving an entire drive.
NEW! Paragon File-level complement™- powerful convergent technology from Paragon Software that allows you to use advantages of two absolutely different backup types - file-level and sector-level.
NEW! Paragon Adaptive Restore™- A powerful and unique technology that allows restoring Windows Vista on completely different type of hardware or even on virtual machine. Supported types of Adaptive restore: physical-to-physical system (P2P), conversion from physical systems to virtual environments (P2V), virtual environments to physical systems (V2P) and virtual environments to virtual environments (V2V). 
NEW! Dual-boot Backup Capsule- Provides Linux and DOS recovery environments for bootable Backup Capsule. Now it’s possible to choose what recovery environment to boot and provides all benefits of both Linux and DOS (safe mode) environments.
Clone your old hard disk to deploy a new one. Eliminates having to re-install operating systems and applications.
NEW! Restore your computer with our advanced Recovery CD or from our exclusive Bootable Backup Capsule
NEW! Exclude files and folders- Ability to exclude files or folders from a backup image according to pre-defined or defined manually masks. It allows to reduce size of resulting image by excluding unnecessary files such as music, movies, etc.
Backup to any media, including USB and Firewire devices, create bootable backup archives on CDs/DVDs and backup to network
NEW! Blu-ray disc support- Allow burning backup archives to Blu-ray discs. A single layer disc can store 25 GB, more than five times the capacity of a single layer DVD.
Powerful Incremental and differential backup—Backs up only files that have changed
Mount backup images to easily browse its contents and copy the required information even with standard Windows tools.
Backup and restore dynamic volumes
Automate your backup routine using the appropriate features and tools
Perform basic partitioning operations. To receive maximum partitioning functionality buy Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 Professional today - ideal tool in combination with Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Professional

Key Features and Benefits of Drive Backup 9.0 Professional at a glance:

Features Benefits

System Backup without interrupting Windows 
With Paragon's Hot Backup technology and Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service (MS VSS) technology, your OS and all your applications remain online during the backup process. Even Windows Vista can be backed up without interrupting your working process.

Cyclic Backup 
“Set it and forget it” backup policy that performs regular backups and automatically manages them. Simply set the desired number of stored backup checkpoints, or the maximum space allocation allowed for storage and the program will automatically manage regular backups based on those conditions.

NEW! Paragon File-level backup™ 
An innovative file-level protection system that allows users to protect all files, including emails, Outlook files, photos, music, videos, spreadsheets and other documents from damage through the creation of a backup copy.

NEW! File-level complement™ 
A powerful convergent technology from Paragon that allows you to use advantages of two absolutely different backup types - file-level and sector-level. You back up once all your computer on sector-level and regularly you perform file-level incremental backup. Your regular archives are small and the regular backup procedure is fast.

NEW! Exclude files and folders 
Ability to exclude files or folders from a backup image. It allows to reduce size of resulting image by excluding unnecessary files such as music, movies, etc.

Data Restore & System Recovery 
Fast and easy restore using intuitive wizards. Advanced Recovery CD enables you to restore from an unbootable system or from a bare-metal state. You can access backup images locally or via network, then browse and restore separate files with File Transfer Wizard.

NEW! Paragon Adaptive Restore™ 
A powerful and unique technology which allows restoring Windows Vista on completely different hardware or even on a virtual machine.

Clone Hard Drive 
Clone your old hard disk to deploy a new one, eliminating time consuming operating system and applications installation and adjustment. Basic hard disk partitioning features included in Drive Backup allow you to add new hard drive and prepare it to work.

NEW! Dual-boot Backup Capsule 
Provides Linux and DOS recovery environments for bootable Backup Capsule. Now it’s possible to choose what recovery environment to boot and provides all benefits of both Linux and DOS (safe mode) environments.

NEW! Complete Recovery Environment on USB Flash Drive 
The Recovery Media Builder allows the user to create bootable recovery media on a USB flash drive then boot the PC and perform any operations directly from flash drive in case of the operating system corruption or boot problems.

Automation of Backup Routine 
Also included is our exclusive Script Generator to automate any routine operations. The built-in Scheduler and Task List, Email notifications, Differential and Synthetic Backup capability etc. deliver a completely automatic solution for desktops and laptops!.

MS Windows Vista support 
Compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista. Includes updates and new product features as available throughout the renewable service period.

NEW! Apple Boot Camp configuration support 
Compatible with Apple Boot Camp configuration. Create a backup image of your Mac hard disk or separate partition with ability of bare metal restore in case of software or hardware malfunction.

NEW! GPT disks support 
Compatible with the next generation of a hard disk partitioning scheme developed to lift restrictions of the old MBR.

NEW! Blu-ray disc support 
Allow burning backup archives to Blu-ray discs. A single layer disc can store 25 GB, more than five times the capacity of a single layer DVD.

Key & New Features

Supports USB-sticks (with MBR only)
Backup a separate partition or an entire disk including the service data of the file system
Paragon Hot Backup technology allows you to create backup image without restarting Windows
Create and manage the backup capsule - a special secured place on the hard disk where backup archives are stored
 
Boot the computer directly from your dual boot Backup Capsule, choose your recovery environment and perform Restore operations in case of an OS Crash, corruption or boot problems
Backup to any media, including USB and Firewire devices
 
Back up only the specific files and folders you choose rather than an entire drive
 
Create incremental file archives for backup images of separate partitions or a file-level backup to keep only necessary changes
 
Exclude files and folders such as music, movies, or pictures from a backup to reduce the final image size

Updated! Restore a partition, an entire disk, or separate files and folders from the backup archive
 
Restore Windows Vista to completely different hardware or even to a virtual machine
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
 
Build external recovery media on flash memory and get all recovery features in the program on a compact, reliable and fast device
User friendly interface with easy to understand icons and wizards accompany all functions of the program
Virtually previewing the resulting layout of hard disks before actually executing operations
Archive database to manage backup images easily - get properties, add, delete, etc 
Schedule your backup - set a convenient time and perform perform operations automatically
Task List to easily manage scheduled operations (enable/disable, rename, delete, refresh or modify)
Use the Shutdown After Apply function for an automatic switch off after the successful completion of scheduled operations
Describe archives with comment feature 

Basic functions for initializing, partitioning and formatting hard disks
Copy Partition/Hard Disk Wizards transfer all on-disk information, maintaining the operating system’s working integrity 
Incremental Copy Option speeds up your cloning process by copying only the sectors that have been changed from the last copy action
Easy-to-use One Button Copy Wizard  clone your hard disks with a press of a button.
Recover accidentally deleted partitions with the Undelete Partition Wizard
Mount archives from separate partitions to easily browse their contents and copy information using standard Windows tools
Volume Explorer utility allows the user to browse and export contents of local mounted/unmounted volumes of any file system as well as Paragon backups
 
Compatible with GPT hard disk partitioning scheme developed to lift MBR restrictions 
 
Compatible with Apple Boot Camp configuration
 
Blu-Ray Disc Support
 
Windows Vista 32 - and 64-bit compatible

Basic Backup Features

Backup an entire hard disk
Backup a separate partition 
Backup all kinds of partitions: primary, extended, logical 
Backup dynamic volumes
Backup the first track of a hard disk
Backup the MBR
Backup a combination of disks and partitions to one archive or several disks and partitions at the same time
Backup individual files and folders
Schedule backup operations
Save backup images to local drives
Save backup image to Backup Capsule
Save backup image to external USB or Firewire devices
Save backup images to networks
Burn a backup archive to CD/DVD/BD's 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 partition (primary, extended, logical), dynamic volume or any combination of disks, partitions etc from one archive
Restore individual files and folders from file-level backup 
Bare-metal restore
Restore the first track of a hard disk 
Restore the MBR
Browse backup images by Volume Explorer
Restore individual files and folders from file- level backups with the File Transfer Wizard

User Interface Features

Wizard driven User Interface
Contextual Help for all User Interface controls
Virtual operations
Wizards for the majority of operations
Built-in Volume Explorer
Embedded HTML browser with navigation through toolbars and menus
Contextual operations
Displays hard disk configuration in graphic form with Disk View
Displays all disk and partition properties - total size, size of used and free space, partition types, file systems etc
Displays estimated archive size
Displays operation progress in graphic form and step by step
Displays archive information 

Hard Disk Copy Features

Copy an entire hard disk to another hard disk or a different size
Copy a specified partition to free unassigned area of a different size.
Automatically expand/shrink a disk or partition
Hot Copy
Schedule Copy operations
Supports USB 2.0 hard drives 

Advanced Backup/Recovery Features

Supports of two Hot Backup technologies (Paragon Hot Processing/ Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service)
Hot Backup of locked partitions
Differential Backup
Incremental File Backup
Exclude files and folders during backup
Compress/Re-compress/De-compress existing archives
Encrypt/Re-encrypt/De-encrypt existing archives, and change a password
Save backup archives to physical partitions (without assigned drive letters)
Create/Resize/Delete the Backup Capsule
Create bootable archives on CD/DVDs
Resize while restoring
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/DVD/BDs
Reboot to Windows Blue Screen Module (Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista) or special recovery environment (Windows XP/Vista 64-bit), when backing up locked partitions

Administration

Set types of scheduling - Once/At system startup/At logon/Daily/Weekly/Monthly
Specify a user name and password for scheduled tasks
Set a date and time of scheduled backup
Manage scheduled tasks by Scheduled Tasks Editor

Basic Partitioning Features

Create partitions
Format partitions
Delete partitions
Assign/Remove drive letters
Hide/Unhide partitions
Mark a partition as Active/Inactive
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
Supports USB 2.0 hard drives 
 

Program 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 (both for backup and copy operations)
Skip auxiliary files (pagefile.sys, hyberfil.sys)
Skip backup images stored in archive database
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)  
  
Supported Operating Systems:

Windows Vista (32/64-bit)
Windows XP Professional (32/64-bit)
Windows XP Home
Windows 2000 Professional
For server operating systems backup see Paragon Drive Backup Server Edition
 

Supported Hard Drives and Removable Media:

Parallel ATA (IDE) HDD
Serial ATA (SATA) HDD
SCSI HDD
All levels of SCSI, IDE and SATA RAID controllers
CD-R/RW
DVD-R/RW
DVD+R/RW
DVD+/-R (DL)
BD-R
BD-RE
USB 1.x/2.0 and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) devices
PC card storage devices
 

Supported File Systems:

NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
FAT16
FAT32
Linux Ext2FS
Linux Ext3FS
Linux Swap
HPFS
Apple HFS+
Other file systems (in Sector-by-Sector mode)
 

System Requirements:

CPU: Intel Pentium or compatible, 233MHz or higher processor
RAM: 128 MB of RAM required (256 MB or greater recommended)
Disk space: 100 Mb
Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher

Available Options:

1 Year Download (+$9.99) 1 Year Product Support (+$9.99) 90 Day Download (+$4.99) Backup FlashDrive Shipped (+$9.99)