Paragon HDD Manager 14 Updated

Paragon Software Group announced the release of features in its HDD Manager 14 family (includes Suite, Professional, Business and Premium editions), the data management tools for Windows PC users and IT administrators of SMBs.

It offer a set of tools to maintain and administer PCs and work stations with minimal effort over their life cycle.

Introduced in November 2013, the pVHD format in HDM 14 handles incremental chains, data dedupe and synchronization making backups up to four times smaller than the original objects. This introduction has also made incremental imaging work up to ten times faster and with greater stability compared with the traditional PBF format, thus allowing backup to network storage. In this release, the user can automate backup routines for virtual containers, merge pVHD increments to manage backup contents, check virtual containers for consistency, and mount encrypted containers.

“Paragon HDD Manager 14 combines all the latest technologies in one single tool, thus covering the widest spectrum of data management tasks from powerful partition management to physical or virtual system migration. The newest releases offer even more flexibility in configuring regular backup routines for virtual containers and add a possibility to merge backup increments,” commented Konstantin Komarov, CEO, Paragon Software Group.

Features:

Merge pVHD increments enables the management of backup contents by merging the two most recent increments in the chain, thus updating its contents and cutting on the backup storage requirements.
Mount encrypted pVHD: UIM (Universal Image Mounter) has been enhanced to mount encrypted virtual containers in the pVHD format.
Support for VHDx virtual containers: UIM (Universal Image Mounter) support for the VHDx (Hyper-V Virtual HDD) format.

Additional features in Professional, Business and Premium:

Cyclic backup to virtual drive makes ‘set-and-forget’ backup planning of full or incremental virtual containers flexible.
EFI support for P2V restore: a 64-bit Windows system configured to the uEFI boot mode will start up in a virtual environment after P2V migration from a backup image.

System requirements:
OS: Windows 8.1/Windows Server 2012 R1 and earlier versions back to Windows 2000.

Pricing and Availability:
For HDD Manager 14 owners, the upgrade is free.