Paragon Slim Backup SDK for Windows

Slim Backup SDK for Windows provides IT professionals with a high-performance, feature-packed backup and restore engine. Easily integrate the lightweight SDK into your development environment, add Windows or Linux recovery media, and you are all set.

Easy integration

C-style API provides flexible integration methods

Lightweight engine

A 15M sized DLL

Fast time-to-market

Turnkey backup engine to integrate with your product UI

Secure and data consistent

Smart Increments technology optimizes storage size and speeds up backup operation by saving only altered file parts — particularly relevant for databases and virtual disks
Safe backup storage with effective compression algorithms and data integrity control
Full data integrity with Microsoft VSS-based technology
Additional protection with user encryption parameters
Granular VSS reporting and troubleshooting:
- Availability checks
- Shadow copy eligibility
- Emulated copy from snapshot
- Enhanced error logging

Efficient and easy-to-go

In-built Enum tool to take inventory of files, disks, volumes
Multi-process execution for better fault tolerance and high-performance multitasking
Exclusion masks with recursive support
Back up to a network location using credentials
Volume restore with proportional resize up and down
Image copy “as is” to enable disk copy on the sector level and precise replica as the outcome