Overview
Backupper covers the whole range from a single folder to a full system image, and the reason it stays on technician machines is the restore side rather than the backup side. Images restore onto different hardware, the boot configuration gets rebuilt during the restore, and the bootable rescue media handles the case where the machine will not start at all. A backup tool that cannot restore to a new disk is decoration.
The tiers included here cover the practical range. Professional handles a workstation, Technician and Technician Plus allow unlimited machines and portable use from a technician drive, and the Server edition adds support for server operating systems and the services that need to be quiesced before an image is taken. All of them share the same interface, so nothing has to be relearned when moving between them.
Day to day it does the boring things well: incremental and differential chains with a retention policy so old images clean themselves up, scheduling on a timer or an event trigger, backup to a local disk, a network share or a NAS, encryption and compression on the image, and a verification pass that confirms an image is readable rather than assuming. Cloning covers disk to disk and partition to partition, with the alignment handled when moving from a spinning disk to an SSD.
What it does well
System, disk and file backup
Image a whole system, a disk, selected partitions or specific folders, with the same scheduling and retention behaviour across all of them.
Restore to different hardware
Images can be restored onto a machine with a different chipset and storage controller, with the boot configuration rebuilt during the restore.
Cloning
Disk to disk and partition to partition cloning with alignment handled automatically when the target is an SSD.
Bootable rescue media
Build a USB drive or ISO that restores an image on a machine that no longer starts, with storage and network drivers included.
Chains and retention
Full, incremental and differential chains with automatic cleanup rules, so a backup target does not silently fill up.
Changes in this build
- Rescue media builder updated with a current driver set for recent storage controllers.
- Faster incremental scanning on volumes holding several million files.
- Restore to dissimilar hardware improved for machines using modern NVMe boot paths.
- Network share handling reworked to survive short disconnections mid-backup.
- Fixed a retention rule defect that could keep chains longer than configured.
What is in the package
- AOMEI Backupper installer covering all four editions
- WinPE based bootable rescue ISO
- Rescue media builder with driver injection
- Scheduling and retention policy templates
- Multilingual interface files, 16 languages
System requirements
| Processor | 500 MHz or faster, x86 or x64 |
| Memory | 1 GB minimum, 2 GB recommended |
| Graphics | Any adapter with a current driver |
| Storage | 800 MB for the install plus space for backup images |
| Display | 1024 x 768 minimum |
| System | Windows 7 through Windows 11, and Windows Server releases for the Server edition |
Installation
- Extract the archive to a local drive.
- Run the installer and pick the edition tier you intend to use.
- Apply the included configuration step before the first launch.
- Build the rescue media immediately, not after you need it.
- Create the first full image and run a verification pass on it.
Before you start
Build and test the rescue media while the machine still works, testing it during a failure is too late.
Backing up to a partition on the same physical disk protects against nothing, use separate media.
Verification takes time but catches a corrupt chain before a restore does.
Questions about this title
Can it restore to a different computer?
Yes, restore to dissimilar hardware is supported and rebuilds the boot configuration.
Is the Server edition included?
Yes, all four tiers are in this package including Server.
Does it back up to a NAS?
Yes, network shares and NAS targets are supported with credentials stored per task.
Can it clone to a smaller SSD?
Yes, provided the used data fits, with sector alignment handled during the clone.
About this listing
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