as with other programs such as Genie Timeline 10 Home.Īfter you’ve defined your backup, a handy summary with quick links to settings is displayed. In other words, there’s no automated selection of music, video, business files, etc. It’s either back up your entire computer (all internal drives), or select files manually. That said, while I described Backup & Recovery CE as easy, it doesn’t hold your hand through the file selection process. That’s hardly unique however, once you’re through creating a backup, there are links to various settings in the backup summary shown the main page. When you’re creating a backup job, it steps you nicely through the process.

Paragon Backup & Recovery CE: Features and designīackup & Recovery CE features one of my favorite interfaces. Go there for information on competing products and how we tested them. This review is part of our ongoing roundup of the best backup software. Now if only the disaster recovery had worked as advertised. And to be honest, it’s more of a hint than a nag.

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.Įven 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. (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.)īut while Backup & Recovery CE is free, it’s also extremely capable at file-level backup.

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. It also leverages widely supported ZIP compression and Microsoft VHDs as container files to facilitate universal browse and restore operations. Paragon’s Backup & Recovery Community Edition is free and offers all the backup options most users need.

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