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.
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Backup to HD: East-Tec Backup 2009
In this article we will describe great quality product by EAST Technologies – East-Tec Backup 2009. It offers wide list of supported storage media, but we will mainly look at the product as backup to HD solution. However, it is also possible to back up to CD, DVD, FireWire, USB, remote locations and many other destinations.
When it comes to backup sources, East-Tec Backup allows backup of files and folders with availability to include or exclude specific file types, backup of Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora and some other widespread e-mail clients, backup of settings and bookmarks from popular web browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera), backup of Windows registry, etc. Your backup to HD can be done in fully automatic mode without any intervention if you set up a flexible scheduler, which also can execute commands and applications before or after running backup tasks. User-friendly wizards and interface will help you set up your backup to harddrive process. Strong encryption will protect your copies, while ZIP compression will save your storage capacity.
The main disadvantages of the program include the absence of some features like hard drive image backup and ODBC databases backup. Of course, these features are not needed by lots of users who want to back up their important data, but their absence can be considered a disadvantage for some. The program costs $39.95, but you will probably overpay for wide list of features if you only need to use simple backup to hdd. The program performs very well as a complex backup solution, which includes performing backup to HD.
When it comes to backup sources, East-Tec Backup allows backup of files and folders with availability to include or exclude specific file types, backup of Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora and some other widespread e-mail clients, backup of settings and bookmarks from popular web browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera), backup of Windows registry, etc. Your backup to HD can be done in fully automatic mode without any intervention if you set up a flexible scheduler, which also can execute commands and applications before or after running backup tasks. User-friendly wizards and interface will help you set up your backup to harddrive process. Strong encryption will protect your copies, while ZIP compression will save your storage capacity.
The main disadvantages of the program include the absence of some features like hard drive image backup and ODBC databases backup. Of course, these features are not needed by lots of users who want to back up their important data, but their absence can be considered a disadvantage for some. The program costs $39.95, but you will probably overpay for wide list of features if you only need to use simple backup to hdd. The program performs very well as a complex backup solution, which includes performing backup to HD.
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