At $100, it is a bit pricey for the average user, so be sure to check out the aforementioned $50 suite version to see if that will cover your needs. HDM 12 lets you connect to an image to perform partition and other operations on it, but doesn’t mount it.īackup, virtual machines, partitioning, conversion–Hard Drive Manager 12 Professional is a powerful toolkit. R-Drive Image and True Image do this, and I’ve found it to be a handy way to quickly pull a file or two out of a backup. One feature that is missing from HDM 12 is the ability to mount an image as a virtual hard drive that you can peruse in Windows Explorer. In fact, I wrote the majority of this review with the program humming away in the background, and I forgot that it was running. In this case, though, I found HDM 12 to be not only fast but also noninterfering. Normally I dismiss claims like this as overblown before I’ve even tested them, and usually I’m correct in my assumptions. (On the other hand, you can set several backup jobs to go off consecutively using the define/apply methodology.) On top of that, while the interface is fairly straightforward, I’d rather see standard Windows file dialog boxes, which are to my mind easier to use than Paragon’s custom boxes.įor version 12, Paragon is touting a new imaging engine with better performance. However, I don’t see why the program needs to instill even a slight hint of paranoia by asking if you really want to apply the changes when all you’re doing is backing up. I also like the fact that you define a series of actions, and then set them in motion using the Apply button. It’s far more convenient than jumping around between modules, as with other programs such as Acronis True Image and Disk Director. I love the everything-under-one-roof concept of HDM 12’s interface. A features list comparison between the professional edition and the less expensive suite version is available at the company’s website. The program also handles dynamic disks, merges images, manages multiple backups in archives, and performs a host of other tasks I don’t have the room to discuss here. It has first appeared in Windows Vista Enterprise and Vista Ultimate to protect contents of hard disks from offline attacks for instance, when your hard disk is stolen and connected to another computer to retrieve data it contains.Included in HDM 12 Pro are all the features offered in the company’s Virtualization Manager: You can convert a partition to a virtual machine and back, convert a Windows 7 backup image to a VM, and restore from a VM to diverse hardware. To optimize storage capacities our product supports the incremental imaging, where each new increment describes the changes between the current state of the backup object and the previous state.īitLocker is a security feature that enables to protect data of your volumes with 128/256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption. Resulted virtual containers can be stored on a local disk (mounted/unmounted), a mapped network share, or by UNC path. If using pVHD – there will be available additional options like high-level compression, encryption, or image splitting. If using VHD/VHDX as target backup format, you can attach the resulted backup image to an existing virtual machine of Hyper-V and OS will be launched successfully. Hyper-V guest machines can be backed up directly to pVHD, VMDK, VHD, or VHDX virtual containers. External hosts with their guest machines are not supported, please use Paragon’s Protect & Restore to accomplish this type of scenarios. The current version can only protect entire virtual machines (online or offline) registered on a local Hyper-V host, where our product is deployed. Thus our solution doesn’t need an agent on a target virtual machine to create its point-in-time copy including its configuration, operating system, apps, etc. Unlike traditional backup tools designed to work with physical machines, our product can operate at the virtualization layer, employing MS VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) to agentlessly backup/restore any guest machine of Hyper-V.
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