We'll if you don't, I highly recommend the tool I use - AOMEI Backupper Professional
-- This is a complete, reliable Windows devices Backup & Restore toolkit!!
This tool even has additional great PC features (but for a different Newsletter Issue) – today I am focusing on the Backup & Restore piece.
Why do I personally use this AND recommend this to others? Because it is flexible, inexpensive and it works as advertised!! You can purchase a Lifetime License or Yearly renewal (I recommend Lifetime)!!!!
Plus this company includes a decent online help manual (PDF) and website to help you both with post-purchase setup, and advice on how to use the MULTITUDE of options and settings (even just related to BACKUP's).
Check-out the link https://www.ubackup.com/ab/store.html
For this Newsletter Issue, I will more focus on some general advice to get you going with this tool.
When you purchase your Backupper License choice, you have the option to also get (yearly renewal only) their "AOMEI Cloud Storage" account as well. This storage automatically links into your Backup and Restore options within the tool and it provides a 1TB size storage account!!!
I personally recommend caution in your signup of their 1 TB storage solution.
Why, because unless you have direct Ethernet connectivity (not a Wi-Fi connection) to your Windows device – Doing Backups and Restores to and from any Cloud storage can be VERY SLOW.
I have found that if you have a huge drive to backup (say 400 GB), and you try to Backup such a drive to their Cloud, the system hangs not creating the backup!!!
Before making any purchase decisions with AOMEI, I recommend you pre-plan your Source and Destination Drive options along with your possibility of using an Ethernet connection.
This way you can purchase wisely during the checkout!!
The traditional Source Drives can be any internal (to your Windows PC) and external hard drives (like USB connected drives).
The recommended Destination Drive(s) are a USB external drive – say 2 TB or higher; these are very reasonably priced and readily available!!
Regarding a Cloud Destination “drive” option, this tool only supports their Cloud Storage solution – no other service provider (that can be viewed as a negative)...
But for real use cases of this tool (Backups and Restores), using only a USB connected external hard drive is the best anyway, for reliability and faster backups and restores!!!
Now onto the Backup options (off Backup tab), here are your choices --
You need to make choice below based on Data versus Operating System (image) Backups:
File Backup
Partition Backup
Disk Backup
System Backup
That should get you started with this tool.
I did not mention this yet, but having reliable Restore-Ready Data and OS Backups of your Windows devices is critical – you never know when a PC crash is coming or some other disaster; AOMEI is a safe-guard solution to this....
That's an Education wrap for this Issue...
