Windows 10: in need of sophisticated backup software

Hi,
I am looking for an incremental backup software that can burn to disk. It is important that, after a full backup, it can detect new or changed files and only select those for the backup to optical disk (due to the fact that I am currently wasting a lot of disks doing full backups every time and if I could do incremental backups it would save a lot of money and disks, although manually determining the differences would be too time consuming, due to having several hundred thousand files in a complex folder structure), in addition to maintaining the folder structure.
Are there any suggestions as to where to begin for such a piece of software?
Thanks

EDIT: discounted software
Pipemetrics Bvckup 2 (no optical media backup capability)
Easeus ToDo backup (no optical media backup capability)

software to test:
AOMEI backupper (lacks merge capabilities)
AOMEI backupper Pro

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Aomei Backupper - as well as disk imaging- provides file/folder level backup, with incremental and differential imaging. It says it supports writing to optical media for backups- I only use it with an external USB drive. The free version will probably do all you need.

Macrium Reflect (free) only provides differential imaging. I believe the Pro version may meet your requirements- I've not used it and don't know about writing to optical media with it.

 

Thank you for the suggestions, I shall have a look and if they look like they'll do what I need I shall test them and see

 

Macrium Reflect Home edition will backup to a CD or DVD and you can set it up for Full, Differential or Incremental.

 

Macrium Reflect Pro wins my vote also...lots of options , full , incremental , delete old full / incremental backups based on the amount of space left etc etc.

Many options...

 

There is no pro version only Home , Workstation, Server and Server Plus. So where did your Pro version come form?.

 

Pro is in the old Version 5 line. You're correct that, since version 6, there's no longer a "Professional" version.

 

I use Uranium-Backup to back up files to my NAS. Its basic but does incremental.

 

Hi there
I used to use Acronis -- Macrium Reflect does the job just fine now. Paid version has all the features you need -- but IMO the Freebie is good enough -- a typical W10 backup image with compression should only use about 20GB and even on HDD only about 20 mins to execute / restore.

Keep your OS on a separate partition / HDD and you won't have any problems.

The trouble with Incremental / Differential backups is that if you need to restore you have to load the last Full backup and then run restores from all the incrementals / differentials since the last full backup.

IMO it's simpler to take (daily) if you like full image backups -- only about 15 mins at the most. Image both the OS and the system reserved partition.

Cheers
jimbo

 

I'm currently using AOMEI (standard) and it seems to be doing what I want it to, it even breaks it down into constituent parts so I can burn them to BD-R easier, so thanks for your help*Smile
Jimbo45- this isn't about backing up the OS, rather several hundred thousand data files

 

I recommend use of differentials over incrementals even though they may be less space efficient.

If you have a chain of incrementals, and for some reason one of the files gets corrupted, you lose all changes after that link as well.

If a differential link fails, you can use next one instead (assuming next link does not reverse a specific change). So overall differentials have a higher data integrity.

Actually, I tend to agree with Jimbo45 as even with diffs, the weak link is the first full backup. I tend to just do full backups and keep two or three copies in case one corrupts.

Actually a better overall strategy is to have OS plus programs on one drive, and data on another. And then :-

Image backup the OS drive say weekly or monthly as suits (I always do one just before installing updates). By separating data to anothrer drive, then the OS drive does not change in size that much, and doing diff/inc backups is not really worth it. Also the full image backups are much smaller and quicker.

Backup data drive using File History Backup - you can set period as low as 10 minutes. This is a pretty automated system and works well.

Seperating data from OS also means recovery of OS is quicker and does not affect existing data.

 

Is there a reason you are locked in to optical media? It seems like that would be the least useful media to use for your particular backup methods.