Paragon's Drive Backup Personal backup utility that supports backup to HDD is still a head behind in the number of its features than its competitor Handy Backup, but after all not everybody needs the missing options. The ability to backup to hd and restore individual folders and files together with imaging partitions and drives nearly equals Handy Backup and Paragon. If only Paragon’s restore feature were a little bit friendlier, you could throw out “nearly”.
Paragon Drive Backup seem to simplify selecting separate files and folders to backup to HDD a great deal, but at the same time restoring them is much more time consuming. When you browse, instead of a separate window with the list of the backed up files, you have to navigate a tree in the same browser you used to select the archive. This approach becomes practically manageable in case you're restoring from a long-path network location. Still another, more serious issue is that users can restore files only to their initial location. This becomes troublesome if you need to recover an older file version and at the same time not to overwrite the newer files.
One of the most prominent options in Paragon Drive Backup Personal is its ability to span the backed up data on its own when you perform a backup to HDD. The tool also supports backup to flash drives apart from backup to HDD. Thumb USB drives boot much faster, given a PC supports this option and boots from a thumb drive. Otherwise backup to hard disk may turn out a smarter decision.
Monday, March 30, 2009
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