AOMEI Backupper Standard Editor's Review

Backup and protect your important data with this easy to use Windows utility.

Over the past couple of years, I've learned a very hard lesson – back up your data. The lesson, however, is not only back up your data; but back up your back ups. Its very easy for hard drives to fail; and sometimes, even your back up drives can go bad. Its important to have more than one back up of your important files, in multiple places. This is why applications like AOMEI's Backupper Standard are so important, and why I highly recommend this app.

AOMEI Backupper Standard is an easy to use backup app for Windows 10/8.x/7/Vista/XP. It supports system, disk, partition, file, and folder backups. It also restores and clones as well as provides file sync, schedule, incremental and differential backups. It will back up data to NAS and shared network folders, dynamic disk volumes, and GPT disk backups. It will also, back up and restore a system drive based on UEFI boot, creating Windows PE & Linux bootable CDs. It will manually add additional, needed drivers when creating Windows PE Bootable CDs, and will align drive partitions to optimize SSDs during restore and clone operation.

When needed, it will send email notifications, and will back up or restore files from one network to another. It contains utilities that will allow you to create backup tasks, as well as edit the task name. You can change the backup image directory, view and manage your backup logs and export or import all backup tasks. If needed you can also boot client computers on your LAN through the PXE network for system maintenance and other important tasks. 

App Pro’s: Free, easy to use, universal restore 

App Con’s: non-standard graphical interface 

Conclusion: The unique function of this software is universal restore, which enables you to recover or migrate a system to physical or virtual machines with dissimilar/different hardware. Another highlight is VSS or Visual Source Safe, a technology from Microsoft that insures that system and data backup processes won't be interrupted by running applications.

AOMEI makes some very good software and the fact that this app integrates with AOMEI PXE Boot Free is an added bonus, especially if you're administering an SMB or SOHO network. The fact that Backupper Standard is free, just makes this a no brainer.