Aomei Backupper Pro review: All-in-one backup, now with online storage

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Our last look at Aomei Backupper’s imaging, file backup, and sync program was at version 6, and it was a tad buggy, but developing apace.

Version 7 of Aomei Backupper Professional adds incredibly affordable Aomei Cloud online storage to mix, as well as targeted backups for email and Outlook for those who don’t know where that data resides. More importantly, Backupper seems more stable and reliable.

Further reading: See our roundup of the best Windows backup software to learn about competing products.

What are Aomei Backupper Professional’s features?

Backupper’s existing features run the gamut of backup functionality including: imaging of your files/folders, system, drives, and partitions; Linux and Windows PE disaster recovery boot media; system/disk/partition cloning; several flavors of folder sync.

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Backups and syncs may be saved anywhere, to any type of non-optical media (optical is supported for boot discs), including network locations, which may also be selected for backup. Alas, a long-standing gripe has yet to be addressed: You can’t browse to select a network location. You must manually enter the location, e.g., \\192.168.1.105/Public, or map the parent folder as a Windows drive.

You can schedule backups as granularly as one hour (continuous is available as real-time sync), as well as run pre- and post-backup commands, including scripts.

Beyond that, Aomei’s changelog lists mostly smaller improvements and optimizations. All welcome, but nothing particularly sexy.

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Backupper also includes a number of storage-related utilities, including a disk-wipe app that will overwrite sensitive data, destroy malware, etc; an image explorer so you can browse files on images; an image integrity checker; and a hidden emergency partition containing a recovery copy of your Windows installation (one-key recovery), as you’ll find on large vendors’ PCs.

The various types of sync available with Professional include Basic Sync (see the image below), which backs up newly added or changed (replacing the older version) files to the destination, but leaving files deleted from the source in place in the destination.