Paragon Backup & Recovery 18.11.0 Community Edition

Paragon Backup & Recovery 18 Community Edition is a free and easy-to-use utility for creating reliable backups of an entire computer, individual volumes, or files. It is a backup solution with professional features. Create backups of individual files, partitions, or the entire Windows system quickly.

Paragon Backup & Recovery software helps to get consistent point-in-time copies of your PC. This can include the operating system, running applications, user settings, and all the data you want to keep. Three predefined backup strategies simplify the setup of regular backup routines.

Full backup images, followed by incremental backups of changed data since the last backup, combined with data retention, keep your data up to date while minimizing effort and backup storage requirements. Backup data can be stored on a local or external device or a network share.

Paragon Backup & Recovery offers several restore options to help you recover from an emergency as quickly as possible. These range from quickly restoring specific files from a backup image to restoring your entire computer to an earlier state without losing data or having to reinstall and reconfigure your programs.

Key Features of Paragon Backup & Recovery 18 Community Edition:

Disk Backup

Save not only all data stored on the disk but also the system service structures. It is ideal for creating a backup image of an entire hard disk, including GPT disks or system partitions, to ensure the operating system remains fully functional.

Differential Backup

Backup to a sector image to only archive changes since the last full sector-based image, thus considerably saving the backup storage space. To restore this kind of backup, you will require a full image and one of its differentials.

Incremental Backup

The most space-saving backup approach! Unlike differential backups, it stores not only the data changed since the full sector-based backup was created but also changes recorded in one of its incremental backups.

Backup Jobs

Choose from our predefined backup strategies and automate PC backups with just a few clicks. There is no easier way to protect your entire system, individual partitions, or specific files.

Flexible Restore

• Restore an entire disk, separate partitions, or only files you need from the previously created backup image.
• Restore with Shrink to restore a backup amount of actual data of the image
• Create a bootable USB Flash drive, CD, or DVD to recover your PC on demand
• Restore entire hard disks, separate partitions, or certain files and folders from pVHD (available under Windows and Linux)
• Restore the contents of a 512-byte hard disk to a 4K hard disk with no additional actions

WinPE-based Recovery Environment

You can create a fully functional Windows-based recovery environment and store it on bootable media, such as a CD or USB flash drive. The recovery media lets you boot your computer for maintenance or recovery, even if the operating system is corrupted or unusable.

With the Paragon Backup & Recovery 18 Community Edition recovery environment, you can, for example, recover your Windows system, fix boot problems, or restore a backup image.

Pros

• Protects your entire system, selected partitions, or individual files with flexible backup options.
• Lets you schedule automatic backups to reduce the risk of data loss.
• Supports incremental and differential backups to save both storage space and backup time.
• Offers backup compression and encryption for improved storage efficiency and security.
• Available free for personal use, making reliable backup accessible without extra cost.

Cons

• Several advanced backup and recovery tools are available only in the commercial edition.
• The software does not include built-in cloud backup integration with services such as Google Drive or OneDrive.
• Licensed for personal, non-commercial use only.
• The software is available exclusively for Windows and cannot be installed on macOS or Linux.