AOMEI Backupper is a dependable backup software for Windows, designed to protect the operating system, data, and applications. This software is equipped with backup, restore, and clone features, making it a comprehensive and professional solution for Windows backup. It caters to users of both Windows PCs (Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11) and Windows Servers (Server 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012, etc.), ensuring that operating systems and files remain secure and properly backed up.
In the event of system failures such as crashes, AOMEI Backupper allows for quick and easy restoration to a normal state. It also functions as an image deployment tool, enabling system deployment to dissimilar hardware. Its cloning features are particularly useful for operating system migration or hard drive upgrades, ensuring successful booting post these operations.
AOMEI Backupper offers comprehensive data protection, with system backup, file backup and sync, and disk and partition backup options. It provides multiple choices for backup storage, including external drives, flash drives, NAS, network share, and clouds. It also features automated backup modes, ensuring important files are never overlooked. The Scheme feature automatically deletes old backups to manage backup space effectively.
The software also facilitates efficient system migration to SSD and data transfer between different drives, thanks to its user-friendly interface and professional technologies. It ensures secure booting after cloning. AOMEI Backupper also provides flexible data recovery options, allowing for selective file restore and dissimilar hardware restore. Users can quickly recover desired files to their original or a new location, or deploy the system to a new computer, even executing a bare-metal restore, without needing to reinstall.
The Basic Sync function of AOMEI Backupper enables file synchronization from one drive to another or between computers, ensuring an additional copy of the files is always available.
Comments and Reviews
Comparing Macrium Reflect Free Edition vs. AOMEI Backupper Free
Advantages of Macrium reflect Free Edition:
Avantages of AOMEI Backupper over Macrium Reflect Free Edition AOMEI Backupper is able to make file- or folder-backups (as Cobian backup can do), Macrium Reflect Free Edition can only make backups of complete partitions
Weak points of both Macrium Reflect Free Edition and AOMEI Backupper Free
So many reviews on backup programs! Thank you so much for all the time you took to write all these. It is really helpful for sure!
EM4020: Six years is a very long time for software. It would be nice if you update your review.
Since Version 4 AOMEI Backupper does not include Universal Restore anymore which allowed you to restore to different hardware. You have to buy it now or use an older version prior to 4. Due to that being the only useful function this thing had (compared to others) I sadly have to downvote it now...
[Edited by EpicLPer, April 06]
Paid version is very good.
Used to do a Fast Flawless Disk Drive Clone for Free! And unlike some others you can even work on the computer at the time. Now I am seeing questionable sales tactics. It's difficult to tell when you will hit paywalls in the free edition. It leads you to think you can do the disk clone free, and then you hit a paywall.
What I did not like in the free version is that you have to manually delete the old backups after the cycle of full backup + incremental backups is completed.
Unfortunately, for me AOMEI Backupper works incredibly slow...
Backups, regardless of full or incremental, literally take days to complete.
I have a relatively fast laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad, i7) with a 1 TB hard drive.
Using file backup mode, to backup approx. 500-or-so GB, to a 1 TB Toshiba USB 3.0 external HD.
If you think you can find faster, I'd like to hear about it. I've always found AOMEI to be the best!
So easy to use and works like a charm!