Top affordable backup tools for Windows available online
Top affordable backup tools for Windows available online
Hey everyone, just wrapped up setting up my PC. Everything is installed and current. Now all my programs, games, and stuff are ready to go. Before I begin, I want to create a snapshot of my system so I can revert everything if needed. Ghost didn’t work on this build—it doesn’t detect my drives. Since I’m new to this setup, I’m unsure which tools are best or what the right terms mean. I’d like to regularly make full images of all my drives. That way, if a drive fails or gets infected, I can restore it and get back up quickly. It should work no matter the drive size—whether I’m backing up a 500GB SSD or a larger one. Having multiple 3TB drives would be handy too; I wouldn’t want to buy another large drive just for recovery purposes. It shouldn’t matter if the drive is an SSD or HDD, and I’d also like the ability to boot from another drive in case of failure. I heard some backup programs don’t always handle video backups well, so I’m looking for something reliable. AOMEI worked fine for backups, but when I tried recovering my 500GB SSD backup on a 1TB HDD, everything functioned perfectly except for booting from the drive. If my SSD fails unexpectedly during the night and I have important work, I’d hate to be stuck without access. Ideally, I could use my laptop to restore the OS on another drive and boot from it, at least temporarily. I’m not sure if I bought this system locally. Thanks!
@Enderman @ Altecice does it generate an image of the drive? When I used Ghost, I had a complete backup of all my drives on another HDD and it took less than 100GB. On Aomi it does the same, but it doesn’t allow me to boot from another HDD after recovery. I prefer Ghost, though since this is my first experience with large HDDs and RAID 0 configurations, it doesn’t recognize them. I might need a workaround that requires using two different backup tools. I’m hoping for a solution in one program. The advantage of Ghost was that I didn’t need the Windows OS to run it—I could boot from the Ghost CD, which already had the OS and software installed. As long as the drive is functional and has my backup image, I could recover it even if my C drive failed.
What does a crashplan mean? It's something I've only just learned about.
Yes, you can save all your video media, pictures, and music by converting them into an image format for backup.