AOMEI Backupper & AOMEI Partition Assistant

AOMEI Backupper 3.1 (Released 2015-08-04)

• Integrated some universal drivers into Windows PE system to enhance its ability to recognize devices.
• Enhanced email notification sending module: support to send notifications via AOMEI website server and SMTP module built into program.
• Fixed issue: program failed to initialize caused by log files.
• Support the latest Windows 10.

 

At last, it is no longer necessary to re-register the license...

 

Aomei 3.1 fixed all of these problems.

 

I think in general AOMEI is quite good and reliable. Things I don't like currently are: 1. the "system backup" option in a UEFI secure boot system. Only the C: partition is selected for backup, while all the rest of 3 essential partitions: Recovery, MSR, EFI are not selected. I'd like to see these partitions also selected as a complete system drive backup option. 2. The compression algorithm and speed still have room to improve. A good example here is Drive Snapshot, which is the fastest with the smallest image file.
oh, I remember I read it somewhere more than once that AOMEI is very slow when imaging an SSD system drive. maybe the devs could also check into that issue as well.

 

In some installations there are several recovery partitions. For these options to work, they must select the "correct" recovery partition (or, alternatively, all of them). If Windows 8 was upgraded to 8.1 and then to 10, there are three: one for 8, one for 8.1 and one for 10.

Paragon HDM, for example, selects only the Win 8 recovery partition.

 

I delete the old recovery partitions. What do others do?

 

I only do clean install, so only one Recovery partition on my OS drive
I think it's wise to delete all the old Recovery partitions.

 

Me too. I was going to do that with Win10 as well but the upgrade is so good that I'm going to keep using it.

 

Good the upgrade process worked smoothly. Win10 will be automatically activated upon clean install on the same hardware you have, so no hurry doing a clean install..

 

Yes, I did the upgrade and then the clean install. But I'm not using the clean install and probably won't in the future either. Both Win10 are Activated.

 

Well, read it RIGHT HERE:

I my experience, AOMEI Backupper has been very fast when imaging an SSD system drive.
Win7Pro, approx 31GB
Backupper free, version2.xx
(EFI bios, operating in Legacy mode FWIW)

SATA III source drive ---} Backupper ---} SATA2 backup drive:
average, across multiple operations
7 minutes

Restoration, from SATA2 drive to a 256GB Samsung EVO 850 SSD
average, across multiple operations
4min 30seconds

 

I second that, AOMEI has always been very fast for backup, a bit less for restore, on my Lenovo Yoga 2 with 128GB SSD. Restore was slow because I had to use a USB2 port instead of USB3 due to a cable issue.

 

My (another) problem with AOMEI and may other imagers is the (lack of) support for EXT4 file systems (yes Linux). I dual boot win10 enterprise x64 with Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS x64 on the same drive (whole drive solely serves as OS boot drive, no data). Therefore I image the whole drive containing both NTFS and EXT4.

Currently only a few imagers out there can do this. Terabyte Image for Linux, Paragon HDM and Clonezilla. Acronis TI 2015 and Drive Snapshot said they could do it, however when they image the EXT4 partition, it takes forever to complete, although they are the two fastest on NTFS imaging. My Ubuntu was installed as UEFI with secure boot enabled. Maybe that's the problem the caused Acronis and Drive Snapshot to be this slow? I remember both Acronis and Drive Snapshot could to EXT4 imaging very fast on a legacy MBR system.

 

Hi, did you try R-Drive Image, they have a range of Linux product, I wouldn't be surprised if they would support ext4 filesystem.

 

With Macrium, Incremental and Differential images have no file system dependencies. You can even create Diff/Inc images of unformatted partitions.

Imaging clusters in use and changed clusters (intelligent copy) is limited to FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and Ext 2, 3, & 4.

 

Good point. I did give it a try some while ago. I remember it had some problem imaging the UEFI system, or maybe the imaging was too slow. I could try it again since it did improve a bit.

 

The last time I tried Macrium Reflect, it was its v5 version. I tried to image a EXT4 Ubuntu a couple of times, however since the amount of data reported on the OS drive was not correct, I did not try to image and restore the drive thinking MR could not recognize properly a EXT4 partition. Might give it a try later.

Anyone successfully imaged and restored a uefi secure boot EXT4 system? Please help by reporting your success here.

 

R-Drive Image just mentions a change in ext4 partition handling in the latest build...

 

Greetings all.
ONLY for the next 14 hours,you can get the latest Aomei Backupper PRO for FREE at Bitsdujour.
Enjoy!

 

Cannot install it after the offer expires.

 

Or can't activate it ?

 

You're right.
You have to install it now.
Why wouldn't you?
Just install it+register it, make a recovery USB media, do a system backup.
Atleast you will have a registered pro version recovery media,if you decide to
uninstall the software,for some reason..

 

Well the activation occured online for me, and on a PC that had a firewall that blocked the connection, I had to rely on the offline mode...

 

I wouldn't take the install time too seriously, that is from Bits De Jour, not Aomei. My bet is that the key will work fine tomorrow. All their past freebees have installed and activated after the giveaway date. The downloaded file is no different from the one on Aomei's servers, it is just renamed.