Poll on Backup software

A poll to see which imaging programs people use. You can select up to three options (eg some people use more than one program or use a regular imaging program plus a cloud based one).

I installed Aomei based on a thread I saw on this site and did 2 backups... 1 failed. So I switched to Macrium Home and did my first backup today, so I don't have experience of differential backups (yet). I use Acronis on my Macs.

Hazel123 said:

A poll to see which imaging programs people use. You can select up to three options (eg some people use more than one program or use a regular imaging program plus a cloud based one).

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Already done to death methinks

Interesting though :) And ideas for new users.

Free File Sync

Macrium Reflect here for years.

I also use Hasleo Backup Suite.

GCG1000 said:

I also use Hasleo Backup Suite.

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Not heard of that one before. Sounds good. Free as well. How do you find it?

I shudder when I see that someone is still using Windows 7 system imaging in 10 or 11

Hazel123 said:

Not heard of that one before. Sounds good. Free as well. How do you find it?

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I use Macrium for an Image backup and Aomei for file and folder backup. I don't like to have all my eggs in one basket:)

@CornishRattler Nor have I heard of it. I like it's clean interface a lot. If it's dependable, it would be a good option for beginners who have never used backup software before. I get into the pulpit quite often about backups and always preach that I don't care what anyone uses as long as they use something. Folks still ignore my sermons and then blame me when I tell them their files have gone to hell.

Macrium Reflect Home Edition no issue for me.

Direct copy to a NAS drive on my Network, direct access for the data needed from any computer I desire.

In addition to monthly full images with Macrium Reflect, I also have written a batch file using RoboCopy to make full or incremental backup copies of my user document folders to an HDD that is shared on my network through my router's USB socket. I use it to run a full backup once a month, and incremental backups twice a week.

Oh, and I also have File History turned on. You can never have enough backups

We had a poll several years back, and no prizes for guessing which app had over 67% for tenforums user?

I've used Norton Ghost 2003, Acronis and Macrium.
I've tested a few others.

IMO, Norton Ghost 2003 was the best, but it won't run on anything past Windows XP.
Then comes Macrium, which if it has ANY faults, it's just that it's getting too complex.

For my money, backup software should have three things only.
1. Can make full backups.
2. Can restore full backups, even if Windows won't boot.
3. Can make bootable Rescue Media.

Casper from fssdev.com works quite well. I have it set to image my internal SSD to an external USB HD. That external drive contains everything from the internal SSD and can actually boot the machine (so I can run Casper to restore everything). Pretty neat. The latest update resolved a minor issue where the "last backup" date would always say "never" even though it actually did work fine. This essentially provides the functionality of CarbonCopyCloner (to old ex-Mac users).

My favorite back in the day was Symantec Ghost, DOS on a floppy.