Paragon Releases HDD Manager 15 Preview

Paragon Software Group released a free 90-day trial of its HDD Manager 15 Preview, a data management solution with flexible physical and virtual backup formats for businesses.

It supports the backup formats for a variety of tasks including archiving or virtualization. Unlike traditional backup methods, it supports a range of virtual disk formats for use with VMs. The Connect VD feature allows IT administrators to set the partitioning and editing of virtual data media in just the same way they would with regular physical HDDs. VD backup features provide the set of backup tools, including file complement, incremental backup and others.

Features include:

• Virtual container replaces the previous backup archive

• Recovery Media Builder 3.0

• Easy virtualization

• MS Hyper-V backup

• Incremental, differential and file-based backups to virtual containers

The backup technology lets users create backups in the form of virtual disks in the format they need (VMDK/VHD/VHDX) and, if necessary, later use the P2V adjust assistant feature to adapt backups for use with VMware Workstation or other virtualization software. If you create regular incremental backups, for instance, each of these increments can be used as the basis for a VM at any time. No matter what you’re using – Oracle VirtualBox, Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual PC or VMware Workstation – it can handle the virtual disk formats these hypervisors use, and will also create backups directly in the formats you need.

In addition, you’ll still have the range of backup operation functions, including incremental backup, file-based backup, additional file backup, differential backup, and more. If you’re focusing more on archiving and want your backup containers to take up as little storage space as possible, then the Paragon Virtual HDD Format is the choice for you: high compression rates and a network-friendly structure allow use of storage and speed up backup operations in the network by up to 10 times.

A free 90-day evaluation of HDD Manager 15 Preview is available. The commercial version of Paragon HDD Manager 15 is scheduled for release in fall 2014 and will offer a free 30-day evaluation period.