Get Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 Compact for FREE! (Expired)

This link is bad. Click download and you just get advertisements.
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A fine back-up tool, I have tested it on a stand alone & it appears secure & does "what it says on the label." From individual folders to complete partition image transfer.
Good product.

I got the software and serial code email just fine also. In fact I d/l'd both 32-bit and 64-bit and didn't have a problem at all.

I also agree that it's unfortunate but one has to be smart about the weight they place in anonymous online "reviews" and comments...both positive and negative. They are invariably at least partially gamed by both competitors and, more frequently, by the vendors of the products themselves. In this case, I personally am an Acronis user but Paragon's reputation and my experience with them prior both made me comfortable that this should be a solid, trustworthy product.

One of the best "Hot Finds" in a long time. Thanks Midnight Cowboy. It seems to indicate you as a new submitter but already your submission is not like the worthless fluff that some others (who shall remain nameless) keep flooding the HF area with. Very nice download.

From V3.co.uk:

Both download links work, but can get saturated from time to time, due to demand. The files are rather large! However, they work.

Early next week we'll add a couple of additional servers (dl3, dl4), to help things further. We have more full apps to get online through 2010.

Chris/V3.co.uk.

Quite often when offers like this are published, the first comments to appear are from rival vendors and/or their fanboys which are hardly likely to be complimentary about the product, links, instructions or anything.

What I always advise is to research a little bit elsewhere first, especially concerning software which could potentially cause you problems. A few minutes spent browsing in other forums will give you quite an insight into the products concerned. If what you see there is acceptable then this is the point at which you can decide if you need it or not.

I tried and tested Paragon. Very Disappointed. GFI Backup (formerly Titan) is easier and simpler to use. Also lighter.
GFI took 5 min to backup 80 gb (paragon 25 min !!). What a joke.

I uninstalled Paragon and stick to GFI and Acronis True Image. Theses 2 softs (coupled to an external hard drive) rescued me many times and faultless.

Hey I just wanted to let everybody know that I am glad to help you if you need it. Sometimes it may take me a little while to get back to you and post but I do not mind at all. This is why I am involved in a lot of forums, so if their is any help you require then post and I will get back to you.

Who is this person, Anonymous? People, register with the website please. Those of you claiming the links don't work must not be using firefox or you just don't know what you are doing. The links work fine. I have a PC that uses onboard ATI Radeon graphics. It has no problem booting the Paragon Recovery Disk. And adding a plug-in to a Win-PE disk like Ultimate Boot Disk for Windows is not a "problem" with the out of box Paragon product. Win-PE boot disks are 3rd party products not Paragon products. Paragon is under no obligation to provide plug-ins for these boot products but out of kindness they provide one or someone did. And really, Win-PE is not hard. Imaging is not hard. Recovery is not hard. Complaining about them is like complaining that 1st Grade curriculum is too hard. If you don't know how to learn the basics of using a PC then get off the internet and get rid of your PC and definitely stop asking every PC literate person you run into to solve your problems for you. To quote a t-shirt I just bought "Fix Your Own #$%#@ Computer". This stuff is not that hard.

Thanks to the many posts regading the many problems with this free application I can feel comfortable leaving it be. I often test out new apps either just for fun or to help others out after determinaing it contains no malware, somethimes even to the detriment of my machines (hey, practice makes perfect, kinda-sort of).;-) But it sounds like this one may be best left in the barn.

Sorry everybody I have been away from my computer so I was not able to reply to any posts. By the way I just happened to enter this find into google. I knew I would find a bunch of strings about it but I really didn't expect how many I did find. Seems like every forum on the net has posted about this so just be patient because their servers have got to be struggling.

You can register with Paragon to have the license key emailed to you here : http://www.paragon-software.com/registration/brcompact.html . You still have to download the software from v3.co.uk . I tried all day yesterday, with all of the popular browsers, but just got error codes (404, 500, etc). I woke at 2:00am C.S.T (U.S.) and decided to try one more time. I finally got through and downloaded from v3, and it was a very slow download, but it worked. You will note on the Paragon reg. page that they will not provide download links. Just keep trying v3. ; patience & persistence will (probably) succeed.

It downloads fine in firefox, just takes about 30-40 minutes. I couldn't get the download to start in IE

Question - can this be used to backup computers on a network?

Have now run this on a number of machines, and it doesn't work on some. It installs OK, and you can run all the back-ups etc, from Windows, but the recovery media is unable to restore! Either it can not find the backups on an USB disc, or it wont mount the disc to begin with. While trying to find a solution for this I looked around a few places, and it seems quite a number of people have problems with it. This is also reflecetd in the reviews on some sites. Many saying it doesn't work.

This is a serious problem! So make sure you can boot the recovery media before you use the program.

When it works it is really good and reliable. This obviously has to do with the Linux boot loader having trouble with drivers and various hardware. I have not yet found a solution. In cases where a machine wont boot from the recovery media, or wont restore images etc, the software is of course useless!

MAKE SURE YOU CHECK CAREFULLY THAT IT WORKS BEFORE YOU RELY ON IT!

On all the machines where this did not work the "old" "Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Express" still works perfectly for imaging. But there are no other back-up options in that version.