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!

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Says a professional software reviewer:

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)

Support

During the promotional period, you can obtain support through Paragon Software's Twitter page at http://twitter.com/ParagonSoftware.

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.

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I'll give this a shot. Received the product key and serial number. Thanks, OP.

Thanks

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.

Great piece of SW. Downloading now. Thx.

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.