Paragon Software Free Backup and Recovery Tools Adds WinPE Boot Media Builder

Paragon Software Group announced the updated Paragon Backup and Recovery 2014 Free, the free backup and recovery tool.

It has already been downloaded almost 1.5 million times from CNet.com and more than 1 million times from CHIP.de. It has been ranked as one of the best free backup solutions by major IT media worldwide, including the UK’s PC Advisor.

This release has been enhanced with a WinPE boot media builder, a capability usually found only in commercial backup software. For the user’s convenience this feature requires no additional installation or registration. It deliver recovery media builder with WinPE support, allowing PC users to prepare either Linux or WinPE-based bootable environments.

It runs on schedule so that files are regularly backed up, and provides the option of saving space and time by only backing up data that has changed. Either way, file attributes and related information are preserved.

Backups can be made to a HDD, to the network or an optical (CD/DVD/Blu-ray) drive. The backup capsule feature is useful on notebook computers as it stores backups in a separate and hidden partition of the HDD, where it cannot be accidentally accessed or deleted.

New in June 2014 release:

WinPE in Recovery Media Builder

New and updated features in Paragon Backup and Recovery 2014 Free Edition:

WinPE Recovery Media Builder available in the Express Launcher

Windows 8.1 (32/64-bit) support (older versions back to Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000 SP4 are still supported)

UEFI support

WindowsStorage Spaces support

Backup changes since the full, or the latest incremental image. Several incremental chains may be based on one full image, provided each contains the changed data for a particular backup object(s). pVHD-based incremental imaging works much faster, especially when the backup is stored in the network.

Restore entire HDDs, separate partitions, or specified files and folders from pVHD (available under both, the WinPE based and the Linux-based recovery media)