Name That Computer Backup Program

[easysurfer]

There was a discussion on this forum a few months back about computer backup programs. I made a mental note that when I'm closer to getting a newer Win computer (which I am), I'd like to try that program.

But my mental note failed me as I can't recall the name of the program. My unsteady memory says the name was something like Haskill? I've had no luck searching old posts.

I've been using an old version of Macrium Reflect for years. I may end up trying to transfer my old license to the newer computer (If that is even allowed since Macrium has gone subscription out) when the time comes. But in the meantime, doesn't hurt to think about other options.

 

[Qs Laptop]

Are you thinking of Acronis True Image? This is a software program primarily for transferring contents of one hard drive to another, but I think it has a backup function as well. Made by Crucial.

 

[easysurfer]

No, not Acronis.

There was a time years back when there was only a handful of imaging programs to choose from. Now there are too many to keep track off with too many features.

 

[easysurfer]

Found using the Alternativeto website.

I wasn't that far off.

Program is Hasleo Backup Suite. Hasleo almost rhymes with Haskill .

 

[Sojourner]

I've been using an old version of Macrium Reflect for years. I may end up trying to transfer my old license to the newer computer (If that is even allowed since Macrium has gone subscription out) when the time comes. But in the meantime, doesn't hurt to think about other options.

Why not just install that same, older version of Macrium Reflect that you've been using? If you still have the install program, I would think you could use that to get the free/personal version of Reflect running on your new computer. That's what I did in 2021 when I got a new desktop PC.

 

[easysurfer]

Why not just install that same, older version of Macrium Reflect that you've been using? If you still have the install program, I would think you could use that to get the free/personal version of Reflect running on your new computer. That's what I did in 2021 when I got a new desktop PC.

I did the same thing going from Win 7 to 10 with my paid for Macrium Reflect.

I'm leaning towards doing that. But still doesn't hurt to see what is out there. My concern is if the old Macrium license version will not work sometime in the future with Win 11 and beyond since they have gone the subscription route.

 

[Sojourner]

I did the same thing going from Win 7 to 10 with my paid for Macrium Reflect.

I'm leaning towards doing that. But still doesn't hurt to see what is out there. My concern is if the old Macrium license version will not work sometime in the future with Win 11 and beyond since they have gone the subscription route.

I'm running the free MR (version 7) on my Win 11 desktop, and it works fine. I just checked to see if there was any sort of paywall triggered when I opened the program and clicked on the "Restore" button to restore the primary C: partition of my boot drive. Nope... totally free. So I think you'd be fine.

 

[jim584672]

Clonezilla is OS agnostic and will back up anything, and is free.

 

[easysurfer]

I'm running the free MR (version 7) on my Win 11 desktop, and it works fine. I just checked to see if there was any sort of paywall triggered when I opened the program and clicked on the "Restore" button to restore the primary C: partition of my boot drive. Nope... totally free. So I think you'd be fine.

For my needs, Along with full system images, I want one that does scheduled daily incremental backups. I don't think the free MR does the scheduled daily. The daily is seldom needed, but when needed works fine. Sometimes something just doesn't work right since the night before or I try to install something and messes things up. Good to easily restore back without any hassle.

The MR v6 that I have does to incrementals and will probably use this. But I have time to kick the tires of other programs on a test machine.

 

[donheff]

There was a discussion on this forum a few months back about computer backup programs. I made a mental note that when I'm closer to getting a newer Win computer (which I am), I'd like to try that program.

But my mental note failed me as I can't recall the name of the program. My unsteady memory says the name was something like Haskill? I've had no luck searching old posts.

I've been using an old version of Macrium Reflect for years. I may end up trying to transfer my old license to the newer computer (If that is even allowed since Macrium has gone subscription out) when the time comes. But in the meantime, doesn't hurt to think about other options.

Hasleo Backup Suit?

 

[easysurfer]

Hasleo Backup Suit?

Hasleo Backup Suite

I'm installing it on a spare laptop to kick the tires around.

 

[rk911]

I use EaseUs ToDo Backup on our Win10 () desktop and Win11 ()laptop (the was for Win 11, not EaseUs ToDo). It will do traditional file or image backups. I also use iDrive to do off-site file backups.

 

[easysurfer]

After checking some of the other programs, IMO, I didn't find them as intuitive as Macrium. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that my old Macrium license will transfer fine when I get a Win 11 machine.

If not, will cross that bridge when I get there.

Not saying that Macrium is necessarily the best as there are many to choose from. But stick with a solution that works for you.

 

[Ian S]

For my WIN 11 miniPC, I'm trying Ashampoo Backup Pro (the second most recent version 25.) You can almost always get it for a better price than the current $30 if you sign up for their promos and act promptly when they show up. Ashampoo has many other useful software titles as well and most are not subscription based. I used Acronis True Image for many years starting on WIN XP but they've moved to subscriptions which I don't care for so my WIN 10 PC with an older version of TI is the end of the line for me.

 

[easysurfer]

For my WIN 11 miniPC, I'm trying Ashampoo Backup Pro (the second most recent version 25.) You can almost always get it for a better price than the current $30 if you sign up for their promos and act promptly when they show up. Ashampoo has many other useful software titles as well and most are not subscription based. I used Acronis True Image for many years starting on WIN XP but they've moved to subscriptions which I don't care for so my WIN 10 PC with an older version of TI is the end of the line for me.

If my old Macrium subscription doesn't work, Ashampoo is one I may look at. I bought an older version. of it v11) that I had put on a Windows laptop (my desktop is my main pc). But soon decided to go Linux on my laptop so never really used Ashampoo. But from what I remember, I saw a nice demo of it on youtube by some guy and that was the reason why I bought it.

 

[Sunset]

If you are really keen, you could activate and use unix within Windows 11, it runs pretty nicely.

Then write a few simple lines in a script to backup your data, runs very fast.
This is mine in case you want to use it as a starting point.

Example:
replace YOURUSERNAMEHERE with your own username
replace XXX with how long it really takes after you run it once.
The "." without quotes at the very end of the #comment is needed when doing the unpack.
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#!/bin/bash
#name this text file backup.sh or whateverYouWant.sh
NOW=$(date +"%m-%d-%Y")
DOCFILE="Documents.$NOW.tar.gz"
EMAILFILE="Email.thunderbird.$NOW.tar.gz"

echo -e "\n\n Backing up data entire process will take about XXX minutes."

echo -e "\n Backing up data to $EMAILFILE file, please wait about 2 minutes...$(date)"
tar -czpf $EMAILFILE "/mnt/c/Users/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/"

echo -e "\n Backing up data to $DOCFILE file, please wait about 33 minutes...$(date)"
tar -czpf $DOCFILE "/mnt/c/Users/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/Documents/"

echo -e "\n All done. $(date) \n\n"

# ls -sh
# to unpack put file at top of directory and run: tar -pxvzf name.tar .

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[mountainsoft]

I use an older version of Macrium Reflect to backup my C: boot drive (Windows) so I can easily restore the system to a new drive if need be.

For my NAS and other drives that only contain data, I use "RealTimeSync" (FreeFileSync). This just copies all of my data files to my backup drive. If I lost everything on my computer, I could quickly access my data on the backup drive without reinstalling anything.

 

[Sojourner]

For my NAS and other drives that only contain data, I use "RealTimeSync" (FreeFileSync). This just copies all of my data files to my backup drive. If I lost everything on my computer, I could quickly access my data on the backup drive without reinstalling anything.

FreeFileSync is great, especially for keeping docs on two different PCs (desktop and laptop, e.g.) synchronized. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to use it recently since I switched to Linux on my laptop, but that's mostly due to my lack of competence when it comes to Linux networking.

In regards to backup software for Windows 11, I think the combo of Macrium Reflect (for disk images) and the built-in File History service (for continual, incremental backups of individual documents) is a good combo.

 

[GenXguy]

There was a discussion on this forum a few months back about computer backup programs. I made a mental note that when I'm closer to getting a newer Win computer (which I am), I'd like to try that program.

But my mental note failed me as I can't recall the name of the program. My unsteady memory says the name was something like Haskill? I've had no luck searching old posts.

I've been using an old version of Macrium Reflect for years. I may end up trying to transfer my old license to the newer computer (If that is even allowed since Macrium has gone subscription out) when the time comes. But in the meantime, doesn't hurt to think about other options.

I use Hasleo and have recommended it in the past. It's free and has an even newer feature since I first started using it. Only one odd thing is that after using it for a while, at some point, the backups stopped running, no logs of errors/failures or alerts about, and a newly scheduled backup would run. I upgraded to the latest update, but that that didn't immediately resolve it. Then I went in, and suddenly the backup jobs were showing paused, even though this supposedly isn't normal during an upgrade, so I unpaused them, and all was good, so I didn't need to recreate my backup jobs.

I guess the moral of the story is to sometimes check that the backups are actually completing to the backup folder at times and don't rely on a job failure alert that might not be triggered.

I created a boot USB key with Hasleo, which I have also resurrected my computer with a couple times when it wouldn't boot up completely after a couple sudden reboots. I only had to restore the boot partition each time, which is several hundred MB, not the entire HD.

 

[Sunset]

From this thread, the subject of backups made me look and since I have a WD SSD, I checked the WD site and they have a free Acronis for download (only works if you have a WD drive), and it's a pretty new version as it's been tested on Win 11.

I haven't tried it yet.

Bunch of other drive manufacturers have the same deal.

 

[Ian S]

If my old Macrium subscription doesn't work, Ashampoo is one I may look at. I bought an older version. of it v11) that I had put on a Windows laptop (my desktop is my main pc). But soon decided to go Linux on my laptop so never really used Ashampoo. But from what I remember, I saw a nice demo of it on youtube by some guy and that was the reason why I bought it.

FYI, Ashampoo has a summer software sale going on and their latest backup software, Backup Pro 26 is on sale for $18.

 

[easysurfer]

FYI, Ashampoo has a summer software sale going on and their latest backup software, Backup Pro 26 is on sale for $18.

Thanks for the info. Think I probably can get by with my old version of Macrium Reflect. But if not, then Ashampoo is a program worth considering.

Oh, by that way, I splurged and got a hard drive dock that can also does straight drive cloning offline with no computer needed.