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Paragon Backup & Recovery

Paragon Backup & Recovery is a robust utility designed to safeguard your important files, folders, and entire operating systems on Windows 10 and other supported versions. It offers flexible backup strategies, including incremental and differential methods, ensuring that your data remains secure without consuming unnecessary storage space. In the event of a system crash, hardware failure, or accidental deletion, the software provides advanced restoration options to bring your machine back to a working state quickly. With a user-friendly interface and powerful recovery media builder, it serves as an essential safety net for both everyday users and IT enthusiasts.

Clonezilla

Clonezilla is a free and open-source partition and disk imaging/cloning program, similar to commercial tools like Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost, used for system deployment, bare-metal backup, and disaster recovery. It supports numerous file systems such as ext2-4, NTFS, HFS+, APFS, UFS, and VMFS3/5, and works with both MBR and GPT partition tables. The project offers Clonezilla Live for single-machine backup and restore, and Clonezilla SE (server edition) for massive deployment to many computers simultaneously using multicast or BitTorrent. It supports LVM2 volumes, LUKS-encrypted partitions, AES-256 image encryption, boot loader reinstallation, and unattended command-line operation, and can save or restore images to local storage, SSH, Samba, NFS, or WebDAV. Clonezilla is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2).

SyncBack

SyncBack is a robust and highly configurable data protection utility designed for Windows users ranging from home individuals to large enterprises. It allows you to safely back up, synchronize, and restore your critical files to local drives, network shares, removable media, and various cloud storage services. The software is offered in multiple editions—including a capable free version alongside advanced SE and Pro tiers—catering to diverse security requirements with features like automated scheduling, versioning, and robust encryption. Trusted by millions worldwide, it provides granular control over file handling and conflict resolution to ensure your data remains secure and accessible.

Rescuezilla

Rescuezilla is a free, open-source disk imaging application that provides a friendly graphical front end for Clonezilla, letting users back up, restore, and recover a full system even when it cannot boot into its regular OS. It boots from a USB drive or CD/DVD independent of the installed operating system, so it works across Windows, macOS, and Linux machines alike. It supports device-to-device cloning without a third drive, reads and writes formats compatible with VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V, and QEMU, and can mount disk images to browse and extract individual files without doing a full restore.

Macrium Reflect

Macrium Reflect provides powerful disk imaging and file‑level backup for Windows machines, allowing users to create exact clones of drives or schedule regular backups. Its intuitive interface and robust restore options make disaster recovery simple for home users and IT professionals alike. The software includes features such as incremental backups, rapid delta cloning, and support for a wide range of storage media, ensuring data is protected without consuming excessive space. Advanced users benefit from scripting, command‑line automation, and integration with virtual environments.

TestDisk

TestDisk is a free, open-source data recovery utility that fixes partition tables and recovers lost partitions when problems stem from software faults, viruses, or user error. It can rebuild damaged or deleted partitions for FAT, NTFS, exFAT, and other filesystems, repair boot sectors, fix FAT tables, and rebuild the NTFS Master File Table using its mirror copy. It also undeletes individual files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS, and ext2 filesystems and ships bundled with PhotoRec, a companion tool for recovering lost photos, videos, and documents. TestDisk runs from a text-based menu interface on DOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, and several BSD variants, and is licensed under the GPL.