Servers are being hammered, but you can get Paragon Drive Backup 9 Professional, the full commercial application worth £16 (about $26), absolutely free, including serial code generated by the installer. Not a time or otherwise limited version nor is it freeware. It's the real Magilla!
Most of us use our computers daily, but few of us backup our data on a daily basis. What happens if you spend an afternoon working on a professional project that is due within the next 24 hours, only to find a power failure results in you losing important data?
There's a likelihood that you wouldn't be able to restore this information and you'd have to start again from scratch.
Protecting your system is relatively easy. You can schedule a backup so that it backs up your important files at either the end of every working day or week. This can be an automated process so it all happens overnight and your system goes to sleep, once the backup is complete.
Paragon's Drive Backup is a backup tool that will backup an image of either your entire hard drive or a partition.
Better still, with the new Hot Backup function, you'll be able to backup your data whilst you're still working on your computer, with minimum impact.
If you find you have a problem and you need to restore your data, you can restore from a backup image at any time, without requiring you to install further software.
The new Paragon Drive Backup 9 now enables you to backup files and folders, rather than your entire drive, exclude certain files or folders from a drive backup and also restore your drive to a different drive or system, if necessary.
Serial Code & Distribution Rights
Follow the instructions within the installer to obtain your serial code. Incisive Media are licensed distributors of this software from Paragon Software. Please do not link directly to the download nor host on alternative server. Respect the licensing rights and the wishes of Paragon Software. This software is not freeware.
Note that this download is only available until midnight (BST) of the 28th of August 2009. (British Standard Time)
Is this a legitimate deal? I'm downloading the software now and it's telling me that I'm downloading at 26 KB/sec and that it will take 50 minutes to complete.
Pretty slow download speed if you ask me. I feel like I'm back in the 90's.
Excellent program..have used this and other Paragon products for work. Don't know how V3 does it, but they tend to always give away great apps, and yes, they're legal. Many times the prior version to a current release. Thanks for the post.
dukenightvision said: I'll give this a shot. Received the product key and serial number. Thanks, OP.
How did you receive the product key and serial number. I understand it is within the installer. Can you install the 64 bit and also get the product key and serial number? My laptop is 64 bit. Anyone already go through the correct process? Thanks.
harveyb1
New Member
posted: Aug. 27, 2009 @ 9:54a
Having trouble getting serial. When I click on box "get free serial", program finishes and states setup aborted. Any help will be appreciated.
harveyb1
New Member
posted: Aug. 27, 2009 @ 9:55a
Having trouble getting serial. When I click on box "get free serial", program finishes and states setup aborted. Any help will be appreciated.
After I downloaded it, do I need to install it now? Or, I can install it whenever I want? I asked b/c last time I got the free version of Paragon Drive Backup 9 Pro, it only has limited time that you can install it. After that time period, like a week, the code comes with the email from Paragon expired.
If this works like similar downloads, the serial code is the same for all users -- if someone can post that it would be appreciated. Then you can just download the regular trial version off the website and use the posted serial when you install, without any of the time limit overhead...
swine said: After I downloaded it, do I need to install it now? Or, I can install it whenever I want? I asked b/c last time I got the free version of Paragon Drive Backup 9 Pro, it only has limited time that you can install it. After that time period, like a week, the code comes with the email from Paragon expired.
Swine, I think I saw that deal when I was searching this one before posting. That was from a different source, something like 'onedownloadaday.com'. Still I'd get the serial number installed ASAP just the same if that's an option.
Regarding slow download speeds, tell me about it. I was downloading it myself as I was writing up my post, then forgot about it until I restarted late in the day. It had finally finished downloading, but the download time was about 4 1/2 hours! So, so last millennium. No wonder they needed mine and everyone else's Dad to help whip the krauts. Yet I've never downloaded anything from a .de extension domain name that didn't nearly fly onto my computer.
Patience, my friends (although if I had come across the downloading box and found it wasn't done after 3 hours I would have pulled the plug I'm sure.) Reminds me of when I used to set my old 386 laptop up at bedtime to download the latest Internet Explorer browser version via telephone ISP, hoping that my anti-timeout software would not falter before it finished downloading at 10:00 am next morning.
1. register : http://www.paragon-software.com/registration/db9pro.html 2. login to your Paragon account and download the "update" : My Account > Products > My Downloads
1. Always make a full system backup while NOT RUNNING the OS or Windows! IE. MAKE OFF-LINE backups only!
Many people are fooled into thinking that a Backup made live (ie. online, or when Windows is running) will always ensure a 100% working backup like the product says it can do using VSS. NO!!!
Here's a perfect example why this is false! eg. Let's say you've got a database open and it's writing to disk. It hasn't finished writing the latest updates to disk when you start a live system backup. So what is VSS going to capture as the true state of the database? Let's say the database is trying to write $1,000,000,000, but has only written $1 thus far prior to the backup starting. Under VSS, you'll restore a database that says there's only $1.
No matter how you slice it, VSS or other 'live' backup methods are never 100% sure of capturing the system in exactly the state you want the data and files to be in. Only a backup made off-line will work!
2. Drive makers Seagate and Western Digital both give away 100% FREE copies of branded-Acronis TrueImage for your free use to make backups and drive clones, too! No serial numbers or registration required - simply have 1 Seagate or WD drive in your machine. These work fine as well - you can easily clone drives all day long for backups, etc. (runs in pre-windows boot for drive cloning, otherwise, you can run them in Windows)
Keep in mind that some have said Paragon is slower than Acronis at full system backups, and the drive makers are far larger and will likely provide support over time for your drive & drive software. Whether Paragon will provide support for a free giveaway....?
Although both companies have started to give away Acronis free starting this year, it is unlikely that they would pick a shoddy product given their size and the amount of headache a poorly performing product will create. ie. they picked Acronis over the competitors, although this by itself doesn't mean the competing products are faulty or bad. They will likely provide fresh software updates in a timely manner, too.
3. Norton Ghost 2003 for DOS is one of the few 3.5" single disk bootable disk backup tools available that can do the exact same thing (make a fully working, reliable drive backup), but is extremely reliable and works fine here in years of use. (Ghost Corporate DOS versions will do as well if you can get these - will also clone over a network, too.)
Simply boot, run ghost, clone drive, verify, and voila! Perfect dupe, time after time. Honestly, one of THE MOST USEFUL pc tech tools ever made, and I've never trusted a product so much as Ghost 2003.
That said, the more modern, larger GUI drive backup tools from Norton, Acronis, Paragon, etc. will do the same and more should you choose.
You simply won't have the ease of booting a system with 1 floppy and making a full backup w/o touching any single bit on the drive (for forensics, ensuring a 100% exact backup of a perfectly setup&working system w/o installing bloatware, etc.). GUI Windows programs always affect and alter the drive it's installed on.
4. Both Norton and Acronis products have years of forums posts for support and help (see official manufacturer website forum links as well as Radified Ghost forums).
There are always 'tricky' systems that are harder to clone, install, restore, but these forums help a lot. No idea re: Paragon forums...
5. ALWAYS, ALWAYS -- VERIFY -- !!! your backups after you've made them!!!
The one thing that kills people is they've made a backup, but onto bad disks or media. When they try to restore the backup, they can't because of the bad media. Verify your backups to ensure you have a readable backup!!
MAKE at least (2) TWO BACKUPS onto TWO DIFFERENT MEDIA BRANDS or DISKS if it's really IMPORTANT!!! Nothing like a drive or media going bad over time to kill your hopes of restoring a crashed PC. Make at least two backups of everything, and onto different media or disks (this avoids a bad batch of media or disks.)
rahuldip
New Member
posted: Aug. 28, 2009 @ 4:52p
This is not compatible for Windows 7 Professional.
FarCide
Member
posted: Aug. 30, 2009 @ 3:17a
rahuldip said: This is not compatible for Windows 7 Professional. Actually it did (at least for me, W7RCUtimate x86).
In general, make backup in offline is best policy, but I think those application was designed for "non-technical" users who can read and use the GUI, running heavy database and do backup is usually not the case(the user run database usually have some idea when to make backup). No doubt verify your backup by restoring it, and yes, it seems working very well, I done that myself.
adorable said: Here's a perfect example why this is false! eg. Let's say you've got a database open and it's writing to disk. It hasn't finished writing the latest updates to disk when you start a live system backup. So what is VSS going to capture as the true state of the database? Let's say the database is trying to write $1,000,000,000, but has only written $1 thus far prior to the backup starting. Under VSS, you'll restore a database that says there's only $1.
If you had a database where it was important to write a Trillion dollar balance, you wouldn't be looking at a free give away software as a backup solution. Besides, what little I know about IT and databases and backups and database inserts and updates, the software doesnt start by writing 1 when writing/updating a balance of $1,000,000,000 like a human being would start writing with 1 and then zero and then zero .....
For an average Joe, this would work just fine. For folks who have $1,000,000,000 balance to write out, there are other more better backup alternatives.
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