Idealstor Ejectable Disk Backup

Software - General Questions

What are the different editions of Drive backup that are available?
The following editions are available for Idealstor Drive Backup 10 Workstation, Drive Backup 10 Small Business Server, Drive Backup 10 Server Express, Drive Backup 10 Server.

Is the Paragon Drive backup Trial fully functional?
Fully functional during the evaluation period: Smart Backup Wizard, Backup Partition or Hard Disk Wizard, Schedule Backup Wizard, Schedule File Wizard, Differential Backup Wizard, Restore Wizard, Cyclic Backup Wizard, Backup Files, Create Incremental file archive, Create file complement, Undelete Partition Wizard, One Button Copy Wizard, Copy Hard Disk Wizard, Schedule Copy Hard Disk Wizard, Copy Partition Wizard, Schedule Copy Partition Wizard, P2V Copy Wizard, P2V Restore Wizard, P2V Adjust Wizard, P2P Adjust Wizard. Without any limitation: Check Archive Integrity Wizard, Synthetic Backup Wizard, Check Recovery Discs Wizard, Manage Backup Capsule Wizard, Recovery Media Builder Wizard, File Transfer Wizard.

How do I create a Windows PE based recovery disk?
Windows PE based recovery is a separate download and will be only provided once you have purchased the software.

Can the Archive be encrypted and password protected?
Paragon password protection automatically encrypts the Archive with Russian GOST block cipher.

What virtual machines are supported for P2V?
The following Virtual machines are supported MS Virtual PC, MS Virtual Server, MS Hyper-V, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware ESX/ESXi Server.

What is bare metal recovery?
Bare Metal recovery is the ability to recover an entire system to same or different hardware.

How do I do a bare metal recovery ?
To do a Bare metal recovery you will have to boot from the rescue CD to restore your system volume.

What storage technologies are supported?
Parallel ATA (IDE), Serial ATA (SATA), External SATA (eSATA) HDD, SCSI HDD, All Levels of SCSI, SATA, and IDE RAID controllers, RAID support (Hardware and Software), IEEE 1394 (Firewire), CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD+/-R (DL), BD-R/RE, USB 1.0/2.0, Support of large hard disks, PC Card storage devices.

Can I backup data on a NAS box with Paragon?
Yes, you can click on Smart backup and select “other Files and Folders” and then select the share which maps to your NAS.

How does Paragon handle bad blocks?
Known bad sectors will be automatically omitted during backup. As for unknown sectors - operation will be stopped.