Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Workstation Full Download

Drive Backup Workstation provides corporate PC users with complete backup and restore functionality along with the most comprehensive set of backup administration tools available in today's marketplace. Workstation Version is targeted mostly to professional users, and leverages technology from Paragon Drive Backup Business solutions to let IT specialists use more professional backup and recovery tool possibilities. The regular use of Drive Backup Workstation ensures that your system and data are always protected!

Product Benefits:
Real-time Hard Disk Imaging Backup - due to Paragon's Hot Backup technology all of your applications remain online during your workstations' backup. Drive Backup protects your system without interrupting your work. These same technologies are also used for network backup for remote online/offline workstations, when using the Paragon Remote Management (PRM) Console.

 
Fast and Reliable System Restore - Drive Backup delivers fast workstations restore even from bare-metal state. You can browse backup images and restore separate files and folders, partitions and hard disks. In the event of an unbootable system, Drive Backup includes an advanced recovery CD to boot from and access backup images locally or via the network.

 
Automation of Backup Routine - Advanced Script Generator automates most routine operations from hard disk imaging to simple disk partitioning. The built-in Scheduler, Differential and Synthetic Backup capability, Cyclic Backup, Paragon Remote Management Console and Client etc. deliver a complete, automatic solution for your desktops and laptops. You can set Cyclic or Scheduled Backup of single or multiple workstations to a network drive, USB Drive or Backup Capsule and review your reports on the PRM Console. This, alone, is a significant time and cost saver!

 
NEW! Adaptive Restore - a special technology that enables to successfully recover Windows Vista to a different hardware configuration. If you need to replace failed hardware and cannot find an exact match for your original system specifications, this feature will help you out. Besides you can even restore a backup image of your real system to a virtual one and vice versa.

Features and Benefits:
Backup Data and System to an archive - Backup an entire hard disk, partition, MBR, first track or any of their combination to make a backup image of your system and data. Allows making backup online (without Windows reboot).

 
NEW! Backup File and Folders - Backing up only the specific files and folders you choose rather than saving an entire drive.

 
Regular Data and System backup - Scheduled backups (by schedule, by event) and archive storage management policies allow user to adjust totally autonomous backup process scheme.

 
NEW! Automatic data exclusion - An advanced system of filters will help you automate the process of building up contents of the future backup image, by excluding irrelevant data.

 
Restore Data and System from an archive - Restore an entire hard disk, partition or separate files quickly in case of any disaster.

 
NEW! Complete Recovery CD on Flash Drive - Create the recovery environment on flash memory. Thus you will get all recovery features available in the program on a compact, reliable and fast device.

 
Restore From Recovery CD - Create a bootable backup CD/DVD (or use provided Master CD) to restore system and data even from the bare-metal state in case you can't boot Windows.

 
Virtual operations - You can build the list of planned operations, observe current state and planned state before applying the chain of lengthy operations physically.

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

 
NEW! Support of Blu-ray discs - You can now burn backup images to high capacity Blu-ray discs. A single layer Blu-ray can store 25 GB, more than five times the capacity of a single layer DVD.

 
MS Windows Vista support  - Provides full Backup/Restore functionality including Hot Backup and Image Mounting under MS Windows Vista.

 
Volume Explorer - Allow browsing and exporting contents (files and folders) of the local partitions (including unmounted) and hard drives of any file system as well as Paragon backup archives.

 Product Structure
 Paragon Drive Backup Workstation Edition. Backup, manage and recover single workstation.

 Paragon Remote Management Console. Manage backup and recovery tasks remotely.

 Paragon Remote Management Client. Run tasks on remote workstations in the network.

 
 Paragon Net Burner. Burn CDs/DVDs on remote machines.

 Paragon Recovery CD. Recover or transfer data from unbootable system.

Key & New Features
Support of USB-sticks (with MBR only)

Backup a separate partition or an entire disk including 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. This is a special secured place on the hard disk where backup archives are stored.
 Boot the computer directly from dual boot Backup Capsule (now it’s possible to choose what recovery environment to boot directly from hard drive) and perform any Restore operations in case of the operating system corruption or other boot problems.

Backup to any media, including USB and Firewire devices.

Backing up only the specific files and folders you choose rather than saving an entire drive.
 
Create incremental file archive for a backup image of separate partition or for a file-level backup to keep only necessary changes.
 
Exclude files and folders from a backup to reduce size of resulting image by excluding unnecessary files such as music, movies, etc.
Updated! Restore a partition, an entire disk or separate files and folders from the backup archive.

Restore your 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 to get all recovery features available in the program on a compact, reliable and fast device.
User friendly interface. Easily understandable icons and wizards accompany all functions of the program.
Previewing the resulting layout of hard disks before actually executing operations (so-called virtual operations).
Archive database helps the user to manage backup images easily (get properties, add, delete, etc.). 
Schedule an operation. The user can set a convenient time for the program to perform the operation automatically.
Task List that helps the user to manage scheduled operations easily (enable/disable, rename, delete, refresh or modify).
Shutdown After Apply function enables to set the computer to automatically switch off on the successful accomplishment of any scheduled operation.
Possibility to add long comments to describe archives
Basic functions for initializing, partitioning and formatting hard disks.
Copy Partition/Hard Disk Wizards that enable to successfully transfer all on-disk information, thus maintaining the operating system’s working capability.
Incremental Copy Option significantly speeds up your cloning process due to copying only sectors have been changed from the last copy action.
Easy-to-use One Button Copy Wizard provides a unique possibility to carry out such a technically complicated operation as cloning of hard disks just by pressing one button.
Recovering of any accidentally deleted partition by using the Undelete Partition Wizard.
Mount archive of a separate partition to easily browse its contents and copy the required information even with the standard Windows tools.
Volume Explorer utility allows the user to browse and export contents of the local mounted/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.
 
Compatible with Apple Boot Camp configuration
 
Blu-Ray Disc Support.
 
Windows Vista 32- and 64-bit compatible application providing the bulk of its functionality under this operating system. 
 

Backup/Restore Features

Backup/Restore an entire hard disk
Backup/Restore individual or multiple partitions
Backup/Restore all types of partitions: 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 (several disks or/and partitions at the same time)
Backup individual files and folders
Restore a separate partition (or a set of partitions) from a backup image of the whole hard disk
Schedule backup operations
Browse backup images (Volume Explorer or File Transfer Wizard)
Restore separate files and folders from backup archives by Volume Explorer or File Transfer Wizard
Save backup images to local drives
Save backup images to network
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
Support of two technologies for Hot Backup (Paragon Hot Processing/ Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service)
Synchronous Backup of multiple volumes (with MS VSS)
Differential Backup
Incremental File Backup
Exclude files and folders
Synthetic Backup (join a differential archive with a base archive to create a new base archive)
Split/Re-split/De-split (glue) existing archives
Compress/Re-compress/De-compress existing archives
Encrypt/Re-encrypt/De-encrypt existing archives (and change a password)
Backup dynamic volumes
Backup GPT disks
Restore dynamic volumes to dynamic ones
Restore GPT disks
Backup/Restore to/from the Backup Capsule
Create/Resize/Delete/Clean up the Backup Capsule
Dual boot Backup Capsule (starts up the computer into recovery environment directly from Backup Capsule to perform any needed restore operations)
Save backup archives to physical partitions (without drive letters assigned)
Create bootable archives on CD/DVDs
Resize while restoring (upwards)
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/DVDs or BDs
Reboot to the Windows Blue Screen Module (Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista) or special recovery environment (Windows XP/Vista 64-bit), when backing uplocked partitions (if hot processing is disabled) 

Hard Disk Copy Features

Copy an entire hard disk to another hard disk (larger or smaller)
Copy a specified partition to free area (not assigned to any partition, larger or smaller)
Can automatically expand/shrink a disk/partition
Hot Copy
Schedule Copy operations
Supports USB 2.0 hard drives 

Partitioning Features

Create partitions
Format partitions
Delete partitions
Assign drive letters
Remove drive letters
Hide partitions
Mark a partition as active
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 

Scheduling Features

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 

User Interface Features

Virtual pre-execution
Flexible and adjustable launcher interface
Wizards for the majority of 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
Many places to run the same operations depending on user preferences
Display hard disk configuration in graphic form (Disk View)
Display all disk and partition properties (total size, size of used and free space, partition types, file systems etc)
Display estimated archive size
Display operation progress in graphic form and step by step
Display archive information
Windows Blue Screen Module localized as well as the main product modules

Remote Management Features

Remote Management Console from Workstation Edition allows to manage only Workstation Clients
  
Group Manageement Features

Remote management of backup tasks
Create group of machines
Assign customer specific scenario to client / group / common
Assign task to turned off clients
Create task templates
Schedule of tasks
View status of tasks

Remote Backup/Restore Features

Backup of remote machine
Hot Backup of remote machine using Paragon Hot Backup
Technology or MS VSS
Manage Backup Capsule of remote machine
Cyclic Backup of remote machine
Restore of remote machine from Backup Capsule 

Remote Copy Features

Copy partition of remote machine
Copy disk of remote machine

Remote Partitioning Features

Create partition of remote machine
Format partition of remote machine

Remote Usability and service features

Support of script language and command line
Silent Install
Script manual 

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: 120 Mb
Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher

Delete partition of remote machine 

Available Options:

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