This software lets you backup your entire hard drive, a partition of that drive, or just certain files and folders. It even lets you create a bootable restore disc in case you ever need to restore to a brand new drive. Read on to find out more in this detailed Paragon Drive Backup Personal review.
Paragon Drive Backup is the Cadillac of backup software for your Windows PC. To put it simply, it's very possibly the best backup software for Windows. This review is for the 9.0 Personal edition of the software. A server-based version is also available. A free copy of this software was given to me by Paragon Software Group for the purpose of this review. In no way did this affect my overall opinion of the software.
Backing up your data is an important aspect of computing that is too often overlooked until it is too late. Data can be lost in a variety of ways, including natural disasters or hard drive mechanical failure. I’ve personally seen hard drives crash on brand new machines before. If you have data on your PC that is crucial to you, then you need to make an effort to back it up regularly, because you never know when that data might not be available any more.
Drive Backup 9 Personal contains a variety of tools for backing up data from your computer. You can back up your entire hard drive, a partition of that drive, or even just select files or folders. It also allows you to schedule backups so that you don’t have to remember every time. It even includes a utility called Recovery Media Builder that creates a bootable disc for you to use for restoring your data.
With this software, you could make a backup copy of your entire hard drive. If something were to happen to that computer or hard drive, you could use this software’s restore utility to set everything back up just the way it was before. For example, a really good time to do a whole hard drive backup would be when you first get a brand new machine. That way, you could just restore it to the original factory state in case you get ready to sell the PC, or just want to wipe it clean and start over.