Advice Request What would be the most reliable and stable free image backup software?

[JimHdy]

I just use an encrypted 8TB hard drive.

 

[Siraj]

AOMEI BACKUPPER PRO

 

[Chuck57]

Macrium free and Aomei. I don't know which I'd choose for #1. I've used Macrium for several years and never had a problem. Aomei Backupper Prp I got a few months ago in a giveaway here. I've done two backups with Aomei and Macrium over the past few months and found Aomei just a bit faster. I don't know about recovery.

 

[ForgottenSeer 78429]

I have use three free softwares: EaseUS Todo backup, Macrium and AOMEI . AOMEI didn't worked on my laptop to recover the system and I have to reinstall windows. First two worked fine for me however EaseUS todo backup free is faster and have more features than Macrium free and also worked fine for me in recovery.

 

[mkoundo]

Hi, I've used both aomei backupper and macrium reflect free. Aomei for several years on win7 and macrium for the last 7 months on win10. I've used them both for backup and more importantly for system restore.

In my experience both are very reliable. I'd say aomei is easier to learn as the UI is very simple but I found macrium more versatile and faster. One additional benefit for me is macrium gives differential backups so making backups very fast. Aomei only gives you this feature with pro (look out for the mt give aways).

With macrium, I can restore my win10 system (~40gb) in under 3 minutes.

Also macrium has some cool features when it comes to bitlocked partitions.

In summary, both are great but for a beginner I would go with aomei and for more advanced features and speed I would choose macrium.