backup and restore profile for chrome or edge

I stress to my clients the importance of backups; however I'm often seeing problems especially after a drive crash where they are unable to access accounts because they rely on saved passwords; and there seems no way to restore a profile completely to the chrome or edge browser even though they have a compleyte backup of their user folder.
Apparently restoring a profile and including saved passwords also requires a registry key to be backed up.

Does anyone know of a tool or script that will allow edge or chrome to be backed up and restored in a way accessible to most users?

Try Hekasoft back up and restore.

Have you tried a portable version?

show hidden files and folders, go to users folder in C:/ drive and select "your name" User folder, then open AppData folder and open the Local folder. find the Microsoft folder and open it, in it is a folder named "Edge" which contains all the settings and data for the Edge Browser just copy the whole folder to anther drive and if things go haywire you can simply paste that folder back into its original place. Of course you would have to back this up every time you made an alteration to settings in Edge.

The original poster is right. It isn't trivial to restore passwords in Chrome or Edge unless you create a disk image of the system which you restore onto the same hardware.

What the others have written here are all wrong. Yes you can back up and restore the browser's data folder, profile and even registry keys but this will not help you. This will not help you restore passwords onto a different hardware or reinstalled OS.

What will work: back up the aforementioned user profile folders from appdata local, and appdata roaming, then install chrome onto a new system and restore these folders but do not launch Chrome.
Instead use Firefox or Opera or Edge to import browser data from Chrome and this will bring your passwords. Then, if you must continue to use Chrome then erase these folders and create a new profile by opening Chrome, and import data back from the other browser. At least it used to work in the past, but I must tell you, while Chrome is a great browser, it is really bad from the sysadmin perspective if a user is using it without sync.

Actually the only method that can easily, and quickly restore Chrome user data (including passwords) is Google Sync. Very simple to use. Log in with Google account to sync. The other browsers, particularly Firefox, enable you to move/migrate their data just by copying their user data folder from appdatalocal and appdataroaming but not Chrome.

Yes, Hekasoft is a very usefull tool for backing-up your browser !
Had to use it sometimes .......never failed.