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AOMEI Backupper Pro 7.4.1 was available as a giveaway on January 12, 2025!
AOMEI Backupper Professional edition is complete yet easy-to-use cloning and backup software for Windows PCs and laptops. As the advanced edition of AOMEI Backupper Standard, it includes all features of the Standard edition, and provides more unique features listed below, helping create the best computer backup.
Added "Email Backup": Automatically backup entire email accounts or only selected email folders to to a local, external, or network drive in case of original emails are destroyed or deleted. Supports Gmail, Outlook Mail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, iCloud Mail, Zoho Mail, HushMail, GMX Mail, etc.
Windows 11/ 10/ 8.1/ 8/ 7; CPU: Intel Pentium or compatible, 500MHz or faster processor; RAM: 256MB or greater; CD-RW/DVD-RW drive for bootable media creation
126 MB
1 year license
$39.95
Main question: What happens after the "1 year"-trial period? Will we still be able to restore our backups with the installed version?
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Running Windows 11 - I see all your help files are headed 'Windows 10'?
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2nd time I've tried your program and still can't figure out how to BU some Files, Folders, and Emails to the same BU.
When I add Files and go to emails, the file list appears too be lost.
How do I create a multiple combined BU of all the types I need ?
Thanks,
Nick...
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Been using this back-up software for about 4 years now after trying loads of others. Does its job brilliantly: Never misses a back-up, doesn't slow down my PC and is straightforward to use. Just sits there in the background, doing its job. Good opportunity to give it a try if your looking for back-up software and not overly expensive to buy once the free year is up! Recommended!
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Changelog is here: ubackup.com/changelog.html
Backupper, a very good image backup app, clones one or more disk partitions to a VHD [Virtual Hard Disk], which is a single file a little smaller than the used disk space shown for the partition in File Explorer Properties. Backupper can mount its VHDs so they appear as regular partitions in File Explorer, and files/folders can be copied from that mounted VHD. It also records the size of any partition you back up in that archive -- provided there's enough disk space, at default settings a restored backup will be the same size as the original partition. Incremental / differential backups only archive files/folders that have changed since the last backup, so the backup archive will be smaller, with the caveat that it's useless without prior backups. Scheduling backups so they happen automatically is IMHO best for partitions with data that changes regularly. Windows changes once, or optionally twice a month, while most software updates take a matter of minutes at most, so there's little to gain backing up the Windows partition more than once or twice a month. Being able to store a copy of your backup archives in the cloud is cool, *provided you have the upload bandwidth* -- many in the US for example have cable broadband, where uploading anything more than a few MB is impractical to say the least. Being able to encrypt your backups is nice, but the best way to protect them is to store them offline -- if malware like ransomware can see your backups, it's over. Win11 will let you set up a pair of mirrored hard drives in a USB drive dock with 2 bays -- for ~$25 + the cost of the drives, you have something similar to NAS with an identical copy of your files stored on both in case of a drive failure. And when it's not plugged into your PC/laptop, as far as malware is concerned, it does not exist.
Cloning disk partitions is cool, but be careful if there's more than one partition and the source & target drives are different sizes. You can be better off, and sometimes must handle the partitions individually, sizing the partition once it's in place. You may also need to handle partitions individually if you're switching from MBR to GPT. Also be aware that Windows boot loader is flaky... cloning every partition on a Windows system disk -- the Boot, System Reserved, Windows, and Recovery partitions -- *should* work, but the result will occasionally [rarely] not boot into Windows. It doesn't hurt to Google BCDBoot and be prepared to use it just in case. Note that if you change the physical location of the Recovery partition, e.g., change the size of the Windows partition so the Recovery partition comes sooner or later on the disk, Windows recovery may no longer work. Using the Command Prompt, type "reagentc /info" [w/out quotes] & press Enter to find out. OTOH if you've got a full backup you don't need it anyway, especially since the recovery stuff is iffy, and may or may not work.
Backupper lets you create a bootable USB stick -- when you boot to that USB stick a copy of Backupper automatically starts. You cannot replace [restore a backup] of one or all of Windows 4 partitions if Windows is running, and you'll also need to use it to restore a backup to a new drive if the old one fails. AOMEI may eventually fix it [they finally fixed the USB stick in Partition Assistant], but until they do you have to replace a file on the USB stick you create in Backupper so it'll work with Secure Boot enabled, which is the default on any current Windows device. Make a copy of C:\Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgfw.efi, rename it bootx64.efi, and use it to replace the copy on the USB stick. *Usually* there's a hot key that you can press when the device is just starting from a power off state that will either cause the device to boot from a bootable USB stick or present you with a boot device menu, where you can select the AOMEI USB stick. *Sometimes* the screen will tell you what the hot keys are when a device is starting up, sometimes you'll have to look it up online, and sometimes you'll have to find it by trial and error -- at most it'll take 12 tries for F1 <-> F12. At any rate, make sure that you can boot to that USB stick, or a Windows To Go drive with Backupper installed, or your time & effort creating backups may be wasted.
For a *little* background, storage devices are divided up into partitions -- each hard disk, SSD, USB stick has at least one -- and software including Windows generally treats each partition as a separate, individual drive. Windows creates it's 4 partitions to keep stuff isolated, but you can use them to better organize your stuff, and make backing up / restoring data easier. Image backup software like Backupper deals with partitions -- you can backup/restore one or some or all partitions on a disk. While the syncing capabilities in Backupper deal with files & folders, when it clones a partition it ignores that stuff and just copies [clones] the ones and zeros physically stored on the hard disk / SSD. By default it only copies the data that's current -- when you delete a file the data's still there, but not referenced anywhere, which is why there's file recovery software -- but you can have it do a forensic or sector by sector copy to clone everything, so you can do things like run file recovery software on a restored sector by sector backup.
Many, probably most people do not back up their systems, which IMHO is why Microsoft gave Windows a Recovery partition, storing a minimal copy of Windows in a .wim image file, has Windows reset available from the special boot menu & in Windows Update, and bugs you to backup your docs and account settings to Microsoft's cloud. And all of that can work, or not -- it's far from foolproof -- while an image backup is as close as you can get to bulletproof. About the only problems you can have are usually caused by things like a misbehaving external drive storing the backup. And restoring Windows from an image backup is faster/easier than setting up a newly installed or reset copy of Windows.
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Downloaded and installed, easy-peezy.
The Read-me-Text says: "This license code is valid till 2025/1/14. Please register as soon as possible within this time to enjoy the best Windows backup software AOMEI Backupper Professional for ONE YEAR for FREE".
2025/1/14, as l understand it, would mean January 14, 2025. (I stand top be corrected).
Today is January 12, 2025.
Is the date on the Read-me-Text File a Mistake, because it is just TOW DAYS away!
Please clarify, Thanks.
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On Giveaway of the Day Forums mikiem2 regularly writes about backup software. I hardly dare to admit I do not use software like AOMEI Backupper Pro. Let me explain why.
AOMEI Backupper Pro will make a backup of both the Operating System, the application programmes and my data files. Every day I will edit a small number of data files, containing personal data. Not always I will be able to reconstruct them, if they get lost or contaminated. For instance the scans I make. After saving and copying a scan, I will shred the original paper version. So backups of my personal data files are essential.
But if the OS or one or more applications does not work anymore, I will just re-install the OS and/or the application(s). My Windows and Linux machines are so stable, that is hardly ever necessary. And as I have several computers, I can postpone the repair of a malfunctioning system until I feel like it.
If I would rely on AOMEI Backupper Pro, I feel I would have to make backups on a daily basis, and profit from that complete backup once every two years. That is not an efficient use of my time. It is more efficient to store my data files on the PC, a local copy on a separate disk drive, and in the cloud. Encrypted, if necessary.
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Thanks a lot. I have been waiting for this update as my latest version had passed the 1-year limit.
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Install does not work within Windows 11 Home; Setup is started and then...nothing !
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There is one single issue that comes from 1 year licence. Imagine the scenario: freshly installed OS on hardware, tuned well with all the whistles and bells for begining. You install the AIOMEI backupper GAOTD version and create Rescue Disk. The future is unknown but you have a Rescue Solution and can forget about anaything. Someday (more than 370 days after install GOATD/1 year licence) a total failure happends and you wants to RESCUE the "base OS" from the Rescue Disk. :ZONK: the licence is not valid and you have no possibility to update the licence info inside WinPE Rescue Environment. Reliability of that solution is broken.
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I have version 7.3.3 installed and it seems it has a lifetime license, but I'm not sure about it. The version here is 7.4.1 and a one-year-license only. The "About" dialog isn't helpful in telling me when the license expires...
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I've used AOMEI backupper for years without issue. I recently used it to completely restore a windows 10 installation on a SSD. The software is long in the tooth and dependable. I backup my current windows 11 computer every 2-3 days. You never know when a drive will crash. Also, their customer service is good.
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