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Paragon Backup & Recovery 11 Home

Paragon Backup & Recovery 11 Home is the flexible, reliable and complete backup solution for a wide range of uses. Whether you want to simply save your data, or create more complex backup routines, this program offers a powerful collection of tools and comprehensive security for your home PC and data.

The Home Edition quickly backups your files and folders, operating system or even your entire hard disk to any storage medium you choose. Backup & Recovery 11 Home ensures that your system and valuable data are protected and can be recovered in case of any disaster!

Convenient: back up on a wide range of storage media.
Reliable: recovers data and systems quickly and cleanly.
Flexible: recovers the system on a new hard drive in its entirety.

Up-to-date version of Windows Pre-installation Environment
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Key Feature List

Four dependable recovery environments boot your PC even after a server crash.

Backup entire hard-drive, single partitions or selected files and folders.

Recover Deleted files - get single files from your backup archives easily if accidently deleted.

Smart Backup Wizard - quickly backup these files and folders; My Documents, My Media Files. My Email Folders.

Backup Encryption - encrypt your backup files to protect them against theft and unauthorised access.

Email Notifications - get informed about the status of your backup tasks.

Store backups on external hard drives, on Blu-ray discs, or on your network.

Partition alignment during recovery to new hard drives
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Recovery Key Features

New! WinPE 3.0 Recovery Environment

Up-to-date version of Windows Pre-installation Environment provides a wider range of hardware configurations and has the ability to add third-party drivers on the fly if your hardware is not supported by default.

Boot Corrector

Powerful utility that recovers the operating system's start-up ability. Available in Linux, DOS and WinPE environments.

Selective Restores

Extract individual files and folders from an archive without recovering an entire image.

New! Paragon Adaptive Restore 3.0

The latest Adaptive Restore helps you recover you system backup onto completely different hardware from which the backup was made.

New! Partition Alignment for Bare Metal Restore

Partition alignment during recovery to new hard drives ensures that there will be no performance loss due to incorrect partition alignment.

Backup directly from the Paragon recovery environment
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New! Better Network Support for WinPE 3.0

WinPE 3.0 recovery environment can easily establish network connections within your private network. If you store your backups on a network attached storage (NAS) or on a different computer in your network, you can easily access the backups directly from the Paragon recovery environment.

Backup Key Features

Smart Backup Wizard

Quickly backup these files and folders; My Documents, My Media Files, My Email Folders. Easily secure valuable data without additional configurations. You can leverage sector backups for the same purpose by creating archives of whole partitions (with all redundant data).

"Set and forget" backup policy
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New! Backup and Restore to or from FTP/sFTP

Offload backup images to offsite storage for an even higher level of protection if disaster strikes. Get your OS and data back on track even if other backup storages and media are unavailable. Using sFTP, the data transfer to the external server will be protected and encrypted.

Hot Processing Options

Live backup is a key feature for any backup software. The product has a highly flexible, improved configuration for two different methods of hot processing: Paragon HotBackup and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).

Cyclic Backup

"Set and forget" 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! Encrypted Backup

To avoid unauthorised access to your backup files, you can easily encrypt them within our backup wizards.

Easy encrypting within backup wizards
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New! Improved Write-operations by using Asynchronous Backup

Improve the speed of the backup processing by using asynchronous writing operations.

New! Updated Email Notifications

Paragon Backup & Recovery can inform you about the status of your backup tasks by sending emails. When configuring the SMTP server, easily check whether the configuration works by sending a test email.

Scheduler and Script Generator

Chain any set of operations into one job to automate the routine with built-in scheduler. Script generator offers advanced scripting options like remote and conditional execution, subroutines, repeatable iterations, disk/partition properties analysis, error management and much more.

Migration Features

Copy Partition to HDD

Create an exact clone of a separate partition or an entire hard disk.

Migrate OS to Dissimilar Hardware

Migrate existing systems and make them bootable in a new hardware environment.

New! Improved File Exclude for Copy HDD

Easily exclude files and folders when copying a partition or a complete hard drive to a new device. This is especially helpful when you migrate to an SSD that provides less space than your former drive.

Award Winning Software:

Paragon Backup & Recovery 11 Home was reviewed by Softwarecrew and awarded with 4 stars out of 5. (September 2011).

Paragon Backup & Recovery was awarded with TopTenREVIEWS Silver Award. (February 2011).

9 out of 10 and the Editors Choice Award

"You get data security and much more for a very modest price. Very Impressive". (October 2011).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A VERY USEFUL AND VALUE FOR MONEY UTILITY 22 Mar 2012

By Helpless TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE

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A good backup utility comprises of three things,

1. Ease of installation
2. Ease of back up
3. Ease of restoring data

If you are able to tick all the boxes then you are pretty much there.

Prior to installing this utility I had been using one of its major competitors, so I will run through a few comparisons and findings.
The interface is self-explanatory, and actually simple to follow. It consists of a few clicks of the mouse button, it does not need an instruction booklet.

This product was infinitely easier to install, load the disc, input the product keys, there are two printed inside the box and it was installed, in less than 5 minutes.
I decided on a full disc, recovery disc and boot disc backup, 654 GB are now being compressed into a 148 GB file on a 2TB external Western Digital Hard Drive. This is going on as I speak and it will take approximately 2 hours.

At this point I started to think that it just cannot be as easy as this to back up a whole hard drive, surely not? Well it is, this product makes it simple and so far so good. One point to mention is that I am writing this review on Office 2010 while watching a film in HD and there are no slowdowns in anything, all the programs are running fine while the backup copy is being made. To quantify that, I am using a Core i7 laptop with 8GB of memory so some systems may experience a slight slow down.

Now some of you may wonder why bother running a backup utility? Well if you have ever been in the position where your hard drive failed, became infected with a virus or just had a bad day and messed with all your files you will definitely understand. My advice, don't wait for it to happen to you. If you do you will go through several stages of emotions, disbelief, panic, anger, rage, at this point the tears will come, then resignation to your fate and the fate of your data. It is not a nice feeling.

So while waiting for backup to finish I'll go through some of the other points worth mentioning.

You can back up the whole drive or individual files and folders/incremental backups.
No interruptions while backing up your data/schedule your backups.
Restore your data on different hardware and restore the operating system.
If your system fails to boot the rescue disc will give you access.
Migrate files to another computer.
It will boot in Linux, Windows, Win PE and DOS.
Selective recovery rather than having to do a full recovery.
Password protect your files.

So the backup has finally finished, now to restore a few files to see if it is really that easy.

The proof they say is in the pudding and I can confirm that this product works and works well. I have just recovered a number of files without any problems.
It is a powerful product made simple. Where I had problems with another utility, especially during the installation procedure I had no problems here. Then there is the price, it is value for money.

What sells this to me is the ease in which it works and that is the most important part of a backup utility. Finally, when you have backed up all your data, check that you can recover it before you are in the position to have to recover it!

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful backup utility 21 Feb 2012

By C. Maddocks

I've been using this for a few weeks now and I've found it to be a very useful piece of software. I'm not really a novice user so I can see how the interface could be a bit daunting at first but it can be used in 'Express Mode' which simplifies all of the major options into Wizards and should allow anyone to easily create backups. You can also run in Advanced mode if you really want full control or to fine-tune the default settings.

I've used this to create a complete backup of my main program drive (C:\) in case of disc failure as well as using the Smart Backup feature to back up my media files (photos, music and videos) and a few other important folders to an external USB drive. I scheduled this to happen every night, I also tested the restore feature just to be safe and all my media and files were restored which gave me piece of mind.

Creating the main backup image wasn't a fast process but I have found this with all backup programs I have tried in the past. I just left it running overnight and it was complete in the morning.

Overall, I would recommend this particularly at this price compared to other similar programs.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Keep it simple! 22 Mar 2012

By Paul Madge HALL OF FAME TOP 10 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE

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Looking at other reviews on this product I wasn't encouraged, but, ended up being pleasantly surprised. Firstly, the design of the main interface is far too complex/clumsy for the average person (I certainly include myself in this category). The moment you start fiddling with settings etc. if you don't get it 100% right then the package won't work - to me, this does say some negative things about the design of the software - it isn't naturally user friendly. However, I took the advice of one (more positive) reviewer and used it in Express Mode - it set up my PC (Windows 7 (64 bit)) to back up to my 2TB Iomega USB hard drive very effectively.

To me much of the time and effort that has been put into enabling the software to be bespoked for the average user is wasted. If you look at the product from its ability to be rapidly configured in Express Mode, then, it is a far more intelligent piece of software, and, comes closer to delivering its aim. Judged on this latter aspect it is certainly fit for purpose. My advice to most users when using this product is to keep it simple and use it in Express Mode then you'll be fine.

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