Backup and Restore Software

Hey guys!

OK so I know that Alienware comes with AlienRespawn but I'd like to use another back up software as I fell Alien Respawn doesn't quite do the trick for me. I'm even having issues with it creating a recovery disc right now. It keeps giving me an error after I select my external HD. I was looking online and came across AOMEI Backupper. It looks pretty good and is free. However, I'd like to get a few opinions before I start to do anything. I am also running on an 1TB SSD. Does anyone have any suggestions on a decent backup and restore program or have experience with AOMEI? Also should I use another backup and restore program with Alienware or should I stay with AlienRespawn and just deal with it? ALso with this being an SSD do i have to use a different method or special backup in case I need to restore to an HHD?

 

Windows has its own free to use Backup software.

 

3 backup solutions to consider...

Acronis True Home can perform automatic, scheduled, backups to either a secondary HDD on your laptop or to a file server on our network. If I'm going to be travelling, I'll usually do a complete backup of the system disk to a secondary HDD (in case I need to do an emergency restore while I'm away from home), in addition to the nightly backups that are running. True Home can run under Windows or boot standalone.

Windows Server Essentials (replacement for Windows Home Server) provides backup for all the systems on your LAN plus provides additional features such as file services, remote access, VPN, ... It will perform nightly backups.

CrashPlan provides cloud-based backup at a relatively affordable price. If you have a high speed internet connection, this can be a good solution because you can access the backups from anywhere to do a partial or full system restore, no matter where you are.

 

In the end, everyone will have their own backup software that they like. I have used quite a few and looked into (but never subscribed in the end) to various online backup plans too.

Features you really need and features you don't need are worth thinking about to help narrow down your search.

E.g. scheduling, mirroring, incremental, two way incremental backups etc.

For me, a tiny, tiny program that is feature packed with a minimal UI I have grown to like is Create Synchronicity. I have used other things in the past too but for the time being this suits me well.

I hope you find the one you need to suit *you*

 

Norton Ghost works for me. I do a backup of my C drive every Friday night and the D Drive monthly but as previously pointed out you need to decide how you want to do your backups and the features you want and then decide on the program that works for you.