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This GAOTD was one of the best tool of this genre until AOMEI guys decided to release an awesome FREE software called "AOMEI Backupper", which actually sports all those powerful and unique features, usually provided by very expensive commercial apps like Acronis True Image, designed to backup & restore a disk image and clone a drive, such as that helping you clone smaller SSD's from larger HDD's.

KEY FEATURES:
Supports Incremental & differential backups, Encryption and Compression,
Supports ALL storage devices out there (IDE, SATA, SCSI, SSD, USB external disks, Hardware RAID and so on) with a capacity greater than 2TB, as well as MBR and GPT style.
Supports Windows 7/8/XP/Vista and Server 2003/2008/2011/2012 (both 32bit & 64bit).
Backup & Restore your entire hard disk drives
Backup & Restore your single partitions (including dynamic volumes) to an image file.
Backup & Restore your operating system and installed applications

Compared to others similar products out there (Easeus, Macrium, Paragon etc...), I can say that this program is much faster at performing the HD backup & cloning process, not to mention that it's also able to create smaller backup files in size as final output.

With this magic FREE tool you can even restore individual files and folders from a backup image file, thus without being forced to recover the entire backup.

It can also check the data integrity of your image file, so as to make sure your backups can be restored with no hassle, giving you even the ability to mount your backup image files on a virtual partition in order to browse and see their contents in Windows Explorer.

Honestly I can't figure out why this awesome program is FREE of charges: simply AMAZING!!

http://www.aomeitech.com/aomei-data-backuper.html

- How to Create Windows PE & Linux Bootable Disc
http://www.backup-utility.com/help/create-bootable-disk.html

LINUX BOOTABLE DISK EDITION:
http://www.backup-utility.com/download-iso.html

In addition to that, this awesome software also supports HD and Partition cloning operations, which can be very handy if your main intent is just to upgrade/replace/migrate your old HD to a new one (SSD supported).

In fact, what you have to do is simply to copy your HD directly to a new one, without creating an image file, with the additional cool ability to resize your partitions even during the cloning process.

http://www.aomeitech.com/features/disk-clone.html

Bye bye PARAGON (and ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE as well)!!


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Giovanni (Super King of Freebies)  –  12 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+135)

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Pros
*Supports file-level and drive-level (image) backups
*Supports full, differential, and incremental backups
*Can create Linux-based bootable CD/DVD/USB
*Is able to backup files in use
*Has a scheduler
*Can encrypt/password protect backups
*And more

Cons
*You won't get WinPE bootable media in Compact
*Compact can't restore to dissimilar hardware

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Final Verdict
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Ashraf from dotTech  –  12 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+128)

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In response to a question: How can I use this program to restore the system when the computer crashes?.

You can create Linux/DOS recovery environment (included in the installation package) on external media (CD, DVD, or flash memory) to boot and run utilities under Linux or PTS DOS, and that way to get access to your hard disk for maintenance or recovery purposes.

Paragon-software  –  12 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+44)

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(according to #8)It is not true. You can do the backup and restore files from external USB drives.

Paragon-software  –  12 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+43)

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In response to a question by Bapegual.
Version handed out 14 November 2012 also supports Windows 8.

Paragon-software  –  12 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+30)

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