Problems I personally encountered were corruption in images made from a running Windows system (as opposed to cold booting from an external device) and problems mounting images as drives under Windows. I used Acronis for many years but gave up on it some 5 years ago because of reliability problems, and I know from postings on various forums (including DC) that others had similar experiences.

I always verify images immediately after creating them. I also image and restore frequently, particularly when installing software, and keep selected images going back several years in case I need to retrieve stuff that has been deleted or lost.

I have used imaging as my main backup strategy going back to MS-DOS days, starting with the original Ghost (before it was acquired by Norton). Saving a couple of minutes up front doesn't do you much good if you can't restore something when you need it. That's why I don't find this kind of superficial comparison very useful. But one thing you wouldn’t want from your backup software is for it to work inefficiently, because don’t forget, these results will be magnified the more data you are backing up or restoring. Obviously these tests are only one part of how well a particular backup software works, testing for other factors such as reliability and stability are simply not possible unless a program is tested in multiple scenarios over a period of weeks or months.

The higher compression and portability of Drive Snapshot makes it useful as a backup and restore from anywhere type of tool. EaseUs Todo Backup was good at backup speed but slow at restoration while AX64 was generally fast with its no frills ease of use philosophy. Although it never won any of the main tests, we have to commend Acronis True Image for producing consistently strong results in all tests while showing no real weaknesses.īoth Macrium Reflect and ShadowProtect were also strong but each had a weakness in at least one area. When you consider its features compared to other free backup software, and the fact it’s free for personal and commercial use, Backupper is really worth looking at. Focused mainly on speed differences.ĪOMEI Backupper excelled in all tests bar one. Nice comparison of Drive Imaging backup tools - both free and commercial.

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