What are the differences of Data Backup/Recovery softwares?

Are you looking for the old archives in the "Archive View" ?
If so, Drive Backup only knows about the archives that IT created. But if YOU know about other archives (created under the prior version), you can select "Add Archive" and them manually show the program where that archive is located. From then on it shows up in the Archive view.

Is this your problem ?

The program doersn't even really need to have prior knowledge of where a prior archive is located. If you need to recover from a crash using the restore CD, (or with the installed program) you can browse around your computer or DVDs and tell it to restore from any archive you can find.
I know this works because I deliberately wrang-out every worst-case scenario I could think of when initially evaluating the program. It will even restore from archives on thumb drives.

 

Thanks, I have this pegged now.

Paragon support informs that 8.5 archives work under 9.0. Also I now "see" those archives with 9.0. What I did was use the add archive to the existing archive logs.

 

For thread information a related matter, Paragon 9 offers a file and folder backup and restore feature for the first time. This is in addition to the image backup features.

So I did a mini test of a non essential file (excel) and it worked. I backed up a single file to an external drive then restored it to a new location. I opened the file from that new location and all was well. My first choice for the new location was my desktop but I couldn't see how to do that. Maybe someone here can figure that out?

Anyway, this is good for me so I don't have to have one piece of SW for images and another backup SW for files/folders.