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

Now with cloud storage, Backupper Professional is swinging with the backup big boys in terms of features.

- JON JACOBI

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.

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, and partition cloning; and several flavors of folder sync.

Backups and syncs may be saved anywhere, to any type of nonoptical media (optical is supported for boot discs), including network locations, which may also be selected for backup. Alas, a longstanding gripe has yet to be addressed: You can’t browse to select a network location. You must manually enter the location—for instance, \\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 change log (fave.co/3QHUa6t) lists mostly smaller improvements and optimizations. All of this is welcome, but nothing is particularly sexy.