AOMEI Backupper with WinPE ISO

About AOMEI Backupper with WinPE ISO

A backup tool is judged on one moment, which is the restore. Backupper covers the whole path to that moment: a full image of the system drive, incremental and differential runs on a schedule so the image stays current without rewriting everything, and a bootable environment that can put the image back on a machine with no working operating system on it.

Backup granularity goes from a whole disk down to a single folder. Disk and partition backups capture everything including the boot configuration, file backups follow selected paths with filters, and sync jobs mirror folders to another drive or a network share on a schedule. Images are compressed and can be split, so a large system drive fits on the media that is actually available.

Cloning is the other half of the product, and it is the part people reach for when a drive is replaced rather than restored. A system clone moves an installed operating system onto a new disk with the boot configuration rebuilt so the machine starts from the new drive, and an intelligent clone copies used sectors only, which makes moving a lightly filled large drive onto a smaller fast one straightforward.

The bundled recovery environment is what makes the rest usable in an emergency. It boots from a stick, sees the backup drive, and restores a full image to bare metal, including onto hardware that is not the machine the image came from. Universal restore adjusts the drivers on the way in so a system image lands on a different chipset without stalling at boot.

What is included in this build

• Full, incremental and differential disk, partition and file backups
• Scheduled backup jobs with retention rules for cleaning old versions
• Folder sync and mirroring to another drive or a network share
• System clone and intelligent clone that copies used sectors only
• Bootable recovery environment on a stick for restoring a dead machine
• Universal restore for putting an image onto different hardware
• Image compression, splitting and password free encryption options
• Command line and scripted operation for unattended runs

Changed in version 8.4.0

• Faster incremental runs on volumes with millions of small files
• Improved recovery environment driver coverage for current storage controllers
• Better handling of very large images split across multiple files
• Reduced memory use during long running scheduled jobs
• Interface scaling corrected on high density displays

Installation walkthrough

These steps assume a clean machine. If a previous release of the same application is present, deal with that first, since an overlapping install is the most common cause of a setup that stops halfway.

1. Run the installer as administrator with any other imaging tool closed.
2. Build the bootable recovery media immediately after installation, before it is needed.
3. Test that the recovery stick boots on the machine it is meant to protect.
4. Set the backup destination to a separate physical drive, never the drive being imaged.
5. Configure a schedule with retention rules so old versions are cleared automatically.

System requirements and file details

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