Alas, interface foibles and malformed recovery boot media still beset the program’s quest for 4.5 stars — two years after I first reported them. Maybe next time.
Read on to learn more, then see our roundup of the best Windows backup software for comparison.
What are Aomei Backupper Professional 8.5’s features?
Backupper Pro’s features run the gamut of backup functionality: imaging of your files/folders, system, drives, and partitions; dedicated email and Outlook backup; Windows PE disaster recovery boot media; system/disk/partition cloning; a recovery partition (boot environment); and several flavors of folder sync.
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 included in backups.
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 noteworthy other than the aforementioned ransomware protection (see below).