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Paragon Software Rolls Out the Second Round of Paragon Hard Disk Manager for Mac
July 2015 by Marc Jacob
Paragon Software Group (PSG) announces the release of
Paragon Hard Disk Manager for Mac Preview– a powerful tool to handle all disk
management tasks on OS X. Following two months of extensive beta testing, Paragon
Software has integrated user feedback and added new backup and recovery
functionality. The product comes with major new backup techniques, including sector
and file-level backups of any partition or disk (MBR and GPT disks, and NTFS, HFS+,
FAT32 and ExtFS file systems) to pVHD (Paragon Virtual Hard Drive). Paragon Hard
Disk Manager for Mac Preview now includes Paragon’s proprietary Volume Snapshot
technology that allows users to easily create an exact point-in-time copy of their
data and system, including running applications and locked system files. Unlike Time
Machine and other file-level backup utilities, Paragon’s snapshot technology has
very fast backup and restore capabilities allowing users to get their systems up and
running in a matter of minutes following a disaster.
Key new features:
• Sector-level backup to create complete file system backups including partition
parameters.
• Backup any partition or disk (supports MBR and GPT disks, and NTFS, HFS+, FAT32
and ExtFS file systems).
• Back up an entire hard disk or individual partitions to pVHD (Paragon Virtual
Hard Drive).
• Backup of the operating system (automatically determined by the operating system
and backs up only the sections of these operating systems).
• Incremental imaging for minimizing backup image storage footprint.
• Snapshot technology for very fast backup and restore of the system and data,
including running applications and locked system files.
• Any restore destination – restore to the same place or any other (various
recovery scenarios are supported).
Paragon Hard Disk Manager for Mac is the result of more than 20 years of development
in data protection, backup and disaster recovery on Windows and OS X. While this new
product’s efficient and flexible backup technologies are useful to any OS X user,
it is especially beneficial on dual-boot systems as it can back up both OS X and
Windows.
In order to improve the quality of the product and integrate as much customer input
as possible, Mac users are invited to download and test the new software free of
charge. The 100 most active beta
testers will get free commercial licenses while all other beta testers get a 30%
discount on the commercial release, which is scheduled for fall 2015.
Paragon Hard Disk Manager for Mac provides the ability to format volumes in any of
the common file systems (HFS+, NTFS, ExtFS, FAT 16/FAT 32 and exFAT). It can also
convert between the MBR, GPT and hybrid GPT+MBR partitioning schemes, and correct
Windows boot issues including those occurring when moving the operating system to
new hardware.
Pricing & Availability:
Paragon Hard Disk Manager Preview is available for immediate download free of charge. The commercial release is
scheduled for fall 2015. Users of Paragon Hard Disk Manager for Mac Preview will get
a 30% discount on the commercial product at that time.
