Top 15 Paragon Backup & Recovery Alternative and Similar Softwares | Nov 2024

Paragon Backup & Recovery Free Edition gives you the ability to make a backup of your disk/partition, plus the ability to restore it later. The hot process options using Microsofts VSS technology allow to make backups during working on your Operating System (Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7, ...), similar as with Macrium Reflect Free Edition, but unlike Macrium Reflect with Multi Language Support.
Free edition: no scheduling or automatical cleanup of backups.

1. Macrium Reflect

Macrium Reflect Macrium Reflect is a Disc Imaging Backup Software to make a complete *.mrimg or *.iso copy of your hard drive.Main features :Disk ImagingDisk CloningAccess images in Windows ExplorerSchedule backupsLinux Rescue CDWindows PE Rescue Media (RAID support)Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 compatiblitySupport for GPTIt has a built-in scheduler,......

2. ShadowImage

ShadowImage ShadowImage makes image files of your system. It can even make images of your system, while Windows is running. It uses the popular WIM (Windows Imaging) format.......

3. AX64 Time Machine

AX64 Time Machine AX64 Time Machine is a backup and recovery software that enables an easy and fast way to restore your PC to an earlier point of time.Time Machine allows to quickly recover from: disk failures, system crashes, virus infections, unwanted program installations, etc. It securely backs up all your files, and......

4. DriveImage XML

DriveImage XML DriveImage XML is a reliable program for easy imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. Image creation uses Microsofts Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use. For data recovery you need the Runtime Live CD from http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-live-cd.htm .......

5. FBackup

FBackup FBackup is a free backup software for both personal and commercial use. It protects your important data by backing it up automatically to any USB/Firewire device, local or network location. The backed up data can be either compressed (using standard zip compression) or an exact copy of the original files.......

6. Norton Ghost

Norton Ghost Protect your computer with Norton Ghost 15.0, an advanced backup and recovery software product dedicated to backup everything on your hard drive. Version 15 cleans up old backups automatically.Conversion of v2i-backups to vdmk- or vhd-images for virtual machines.......

7. Easeus Todo Backup

Easeus Todo Backup EASEUS Todo Backup Home is a free file backup and disaster recovery software. You can backup disks, partitions, individual files and folders. You can backup to other disk of your PC or to FTP and CD/DVD. Todo Backup enables you to clone the entire disk fast both in Windows and......

8. Cobian Backup

Cobian Backup Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported in both directions (download and upload). Multi-Language-Support. Chooseable Maximum of......

9. Acronis True Image

Acronis True Image Acronis True Image provides data protection including, backup, archive, access and recovery for Microsoft, OSX, iOS and Android operating systems. As disk imaging software, True Image can restore the previously captured image to another disk, replicating the structure and contents to the new disk, also allowing disk cloning and partition......

10. Ashampoo Backup Pro

Ashampoo Backup Pro Ashampoo Backup Pro allows you to store your data wherever you like. Single files or entire disk partitions (e.g. your system drive), the choice is yours. Ashampoo Backup Pro guarantees simple handling and maximum flexibility!FEATURESStore it wherever you likeAshampoo Backup Pro supports all common storage types such as hard disks,......

11. Ocster Backup

Ocster Backup Ocster Backup is a backup software for Windows that was designed from the start to work fully automatic. You simply specify what you want backed up and when and then the software takes care of the rest.Ocster offers a free and a commercial editions of its software.Ocster Backup Pro supports......

12. Duplicati

Duplicati Duplicati is the only portable backup program, able to send backups in encrypted form to another computer or SkyDrive using one of several methods (WebDAV, FTP, SFTP/SCP/SSH, Amazon S3, Rackspace CloudFiles, USB disk, Windows network share). Time scheduler e.g. for auto-backups every 3rd Monday on 10 a.m.German, Danish, English, French,......

13. Drive SnapShot

Drive SnapShot A fast and inexpensive imaging tool. Very simple yet powerful, following the KISS methodology. Can be run as a portable app, thereby opening up a lot of possibilities. For instance, I use it to remotely back up all the computers on our network via command line and PSEXE.Can map and......

14. Rclone

Rclone Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from:- Google Drive- Amazon S3- Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files / Memset Memstore- Dropbox- Google Cloud Storage- Amazon Cloud Drive- Microsoft One Drive- Hubic- Backblaze B2- Yandex Disk- The local filesystemFeatures- MD5/SHA1 hashes checked at all......

15. MirrorFolder

MirrorFolder MirrorFolder is a real-time folder mirroring and synchronization software to backup files on Windows desktop/laptop/server computers.One can setup one or more mirrors for important folders, or even an entire drive, to another local/removable/network drive for automatic synchronization or real-time mirroring. Once a mirror is setup for a folder, mirroring/synchronization will......