Paragon’s Backup & Recovery Community Edition is free and offers all the backup options most users need. It also leverages widely supported ZIP compression and Microsoft VHDs as container files to facilitate universal browse and restore operations.
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Paragon’s Backup & Recovery Community Edition is free and offers all the backup options most users need. It also leverages widely supported ZIP compression and Microsoft VHDs as container files to facilitate universal browse and restore operations.
Where the sources line up
Paragon’s Backup & Recovery 17 Community Edition (CE) is the free version (and teaser) of the company’s masterful, but somewhat misleadingly monikered Hard Disk Manager software. (The latter is, of course, a hard drive manager with the imaging capabilities CE lacks, but the name doesn’t really hint at its prodigious backup capabilities.
Practical impact for readers
But while Backup & Recovery CE is free, it’s also extremely capable at file-level backup. It leverages common ZIP compression (optional) and Microsoft virtual hard disks (optional) for storage so you don’t necessarily need the program to browse and restore your data.
Who should pay attention now
Even better, as far as I could tell, you’re nagged to spend money only if you click on a feature that’s exclusive to Hard Disk Manager. And to be honest, it’s more of a hint than a nag. Nicely low-key, Paragon. Now if only the disaster recovery had worked as advertised.
What is still unclear
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