# Paragon Backup & Recovery 16

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Back up data and automate backup jobs with Paragon Backup & Recovery 16.

## Easy backup & flexible restoration!

Paragon Backup & Recovery 16 is an advanced backup and safeguarding software that enables private users to perform complex backup tasks with ease.

Thanks to Backup and Recovery 16, there is absolutely no need for deep IT skills or advanced computing knowledge in order to protect files and folders, partitions, disks or even the entire system. Paragon Backup & Recovery makes PC protection child’s play.

### Data and System Backup

Whether simply saving data, automating backup processes, or creating complex backup routines, Backup & Recovery 16 covers all your needs. Not sure which setting is most suitable? No need to worry! The powerful software wizards guide users step by step through the backup jungle - and the newly designed UI will clear the path!

### Enterprise Class Technologies

The product is stuffed with enterprise-class technologies such as the rock-solid, time-tested proven backup engine or the advanced Paragon backup archive PVHD (Paragon virtual hard disk). PVHD archives can be mounted and browsed within your Windows system (assign a drive letter) and are perfect for storing on a network share thanks to its CRC technology.

### Backup Strategies - Customized Backup Automation

Backup strategies are designed to easily set and run automated backup jobs. Choose from our reliable pre-defined strategies or design your very own strategy with Paragon’s new backup strategy design tool.

### Flexible System Recovery

The mighty restore wizard rules restorations of all kinds. Equally useful for retrieving entire systems, disks or partitions or single files, the software puts the user in full control. Restoration to different hardware? With Backup & Recovery 16, a backup of the entire system can be restored even on new hardware with just a few clicks.

#### Customized Backup Automation

Your PC fails to boot? Thanks to the WinPE-based recovery media, users get a handy tool which lets them perform most tasks from a bootable USB stick. This is perfect to rescue files, fix boot problems or perform a bare metal restoration, even if the system fails to boot.

#### Paragon Backup & Recovery 16 Backup features

*NEW!* Backup Job Wizard

Create and automate backup tasks. Supports all backup techniques like differential, incremental, full, file based etc.

*NEW!* Pre-defined backup strategies

Daily backup, weekly backup, on demand backup (manual triggered continuous backup)

*NEW!* Define custom strategies

Define custom strategy pre-sets for every need

*NEW!* Single Backup Wizard

Simplified wizard for “one-shot” or single time backups

Filter options

Use file based pre-defined include or exclude filters to define the backup content. Create own filters and filter pre-sets

Backup to the network

Network share support, supports WebDAV cloud storages

Backup Retention

Pre-set and customizable algorithm for automatic deletion of older unnecessary backup files

Split Backups

Split backups to smaller portions

Check archive integrity

Automatic and manual check of the backup file integrity

Backup to VD

Backup to virtual disks of major hypervisor vendors VMDK, VHDX, VHD, pVHD (like WMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox). Such Backups can be mounted by virtual machines

#### Paragon Backup & Recovery 16 Restore features

Restore backup

Wizard: perform wizard driven restore operations for partitions, disks, files, folders, the entire system

- Restore files to original destination and overwrite files there
- Restore files to original destination and keep files
- Restore files to a different location

Boot corrector

Fix boot related problems with Paragons boot corrector (via build in bootable recovery medium)

Adaptive Restore

Restore on different hardware. Restore Windows systems to new hardware (Win 8 and above)

Restore with shrink

Restore on smaller hard disks (e.g. SSDs). Exclude/separate user and system data during the restore operation

Update MBR

Update and fix Master boot record

Selective restore

Select particular files to restore during any restore operation

- Delete or copy excluded files during restore
- Block direct actions on Backup Capsule

## Related guides

- [How to choose the best backup software solution](https://find-your-software.com/solutions/software-for-backup.html)
- [A guide to backup your files correctly](https://find-your-software.com/solutions/how-to-backup-files.html)
- [Things you need to know about system backup](https://find-your-software.com/solutions/system-backup.html)