Windows 10: Giving up Acronis in favour of FREE AOMEI

Try the stable version. Version 2.2

 

Humm ! I'll give it a try...

*Smile

 

I just started using this also, found it in Brinks tutorial on the win8 fourm.

 

Yup. Took about 10 min to make mine. Tested it and it works fine. 2.2 is the way to go.

 

I do the same, using Cloning as my scheduled every 2 week HDD backup. I also Image occasionally for redundancy in the event of a Cloning issue encountered.

Have you used AOMEI with the Win 10 beta builds?

I have 2 SATA Hot-Swap Racks installed in my Desktop tower which eliminates the time required for accessing the internal case. The HDD's remove/install like a CD/DVD disc.

 

Today I was looking around for backup software to do automated incremental backups to my NAS. After an hour of trying various programs, I came across Iperius Backup. It has want I need and has a free entry level version.

I have it backing up my files now and so far I think I like it.

 

jimbo45 I am using it on one of my laptops running windows 10 pro 10130. really like it and have done a few recoveries with it on several different versions of 10. also Dude helped me with a partition rearrangement and I used AOEMI parted very easy to figure out and have used to reconfigure to get my old D: revovery partion back.
Shipinomore

 

This is what I have found with AOMEI -
Make sure you have a backup of your configuration. Mine sometimes deletes it then you have no backup jobs. Without the config. backup you'll have to re-enter all your jobs again.
I have talked to the Tech. Support they didn't even know about this.

 

I like Macriun Reflect. I used Acronis in the past and did not like it.

 

Since I have no use for incremental/schedule backup. I'll stick with Macrium. It does what I need and most important is never fail me once.

For those of you who use AOMEI, in case you are not aware of, the AOMEI Rescue disk also contains the Recovery Environment and Startup Repair so you don't need to create the Recovery disk in Windows saving you one USB stick. To access the Recovery & Startup repair:

• Boot up the AOMEI Rescue disk
• Tools->Command Prompt and cd X:\sources\Recovery
• Type recenv.exe for Recovery or Type: Startuprep.exe for startup repair.

 

topgundcp

Thanks for the AOMEI startup/repair info.

I use Macrium (free ver) for both of my Win 7x64 PC's and a family member's XP PC. Works well for me.

Has anyone tried AMOEI, Macrium, or another familiar-named Cloning/Imaging tool with the Win 10 builds and verified Cloning or Image-restoring to a bare-metal recovery bootable HDD replacement and successfully booting into Win 10?

 

Hi there

Although as the the starter of this thread I now actually use my Linux server to backup all my Windows images -- the reason for this is that my Linux server is running 24 hrs a day 7 days a week as my primary file / printer / media server and has around 8 TB of free storage on it.

However on the road it's still useful to have a decent program that can be run from a USB stick / drive so you can restore say a laptop if you have to.


With all the various W10 builds at the moment I find it easier to run a backup schedule from the Linux server (CRONTAB) so my whole network just gets backed up daily without me having to bother about it. I've enough HDD space now.


The only time my Linux server gets re-booted is if I'm adding certain bits of new hardware (not often). - My current server has been running now for nearly ONE YEAR without a re-boot. !!!


However for all readers of this thread -- Whatever you use ALWAYS ENSURE YOU HAVE ADEQUATE BACKUP --so many problems can be solved and a LOT OF TIME saved by simply taking backups before updates / software installs --should only take about 15 mins to image a system these days --ALWAYS KEEP THE OS ON A SEPARATE DRIVE / PARTITION.

Cheers
jimbo