At a GlanceExpert`s Rating
Pros
File backup, sync, and imaging in one program
Interface is easy to learn and use
1TB of online storage for $20 extra with yearly license, $30 with perpetual license
Cons
Minor interface glitches and sloppiness
Doesn’t support VHD/VHDX
Problematic boot disk creation
Our Verdict
With the addition of online storage, Aomei Backupper 7 can now compete with other premium offerings in the backup, sync, and disaster recovery category.
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Our last look at Aomei Backupper’s imaging, file backup, and sync program was at version 6. It was a tad buggy, but developing apace.
Version 7 of Aomei Backupper Professional adds incredibly affordable Aomei Cloud online storage to the mix, as well as targeted backups for email and Outlook for those who don’t know where that data resides. More importantly, Backupper seems more stable and reliable.
Read on to learn more, then see our roundup of the best Windows backup software for comparison.
What are Aomei Backupper Professional’s features?
Backupper’s existing features run the gamut of backup functionality including: imaging of your files/folders, system, drives, and partitions; Linux and Windows PE disaster recovery boot media; system/disk/partition cloning; several flavors of folder sync.
Backupper will clone your disks, or portions of them.
Backups and syncs may be saved anywhere, to any type of non-optical media (optical is supported for boot discs), including network locations, which may also be selected for backup. Alas, a long-standing gripe has yet to be addressed: You can’t browse to select a network location. You must manually enter the location, e.g., \192.168.1.105\Public, though once you’re at the parent resource a normal browser tree pops up.
You can schedule backups as granularly as one hour (continuous is available as real-time sync), as well as run pre- and post-backup commands, including scripts.
Beyond that, Aomei’s changelog lists mostly smaller improvements and optimizations. All welcome, but nothing particularly sexy.
Backupper also includes a number of storage-related utilities, including a disk-wipe app that will overwrite sensitive data, destroy malware, etc; an image explorer so you can browse files on images; an image integrity checker; and a hidden emergency partition containing a recovery copy of your Windows installation (one-key recovery), as you’ll find on large vendors’ PCs.
The various types of sync available with Professional include Basic Sync (see the image below), which backs up newly added or changed (replacing the older version) files to the destination, but leaving files deleted from the source in place in the destination.
The Professional version of Backupper offers several options for syncing data.
Mirroring maintains an exact duplicate of the source folder’s contents in the destination folder, including removing files deleted from the source folder. Two-way sync simply means that changes made in either the source or destination folder are duplicated in the other. Real-time sync is just what is sounds like: instantaneous mirroring of changes made in the source folder to the destination, rather than by scheduling.
How easy is Aomei Backupper Professional to use?
Aomei Backupper is quite similar in both appearance and workflow to Acronis True Image, though neither are particularly ground-breaking: a column of basic categories on the left, with a pane of sub-categories to the right that morph into detail view. The GUI is clean and the features are explained with easily understandable language. Kudos to the English translators — it’s impressive.
Backupper offers quite a few related tools. Some, such as creating a portable version, are only available in the pricier corporate versions.
That said, while the PDF help file is quite thorough and well-written, you should read it in its entirety first. It lacks links that would let you jump from a topic in the table of contents to the subject itself. A small, but mildly annoying time-waster.
The upshot is that the program is very easy to use. If you understand backup at all, you won’t have any difficulty using Backupper. If you’re new to backup, your learning curve should be minimal.
Of course, the free version, which is what most people will start off with, suffers a perpetual upgrade nag on the main screen, as well as other nudges that if you like the software, you should probably support the company that provided it. True that.
If you understand backup at all, you won’t have any difficulty using Backupper. If you’re new to backup, your learning curve should be minimal.
How much is Aomei Backupper Professional?
This is a more complicated topic than with many products, and the pricing is different depending on where you look online, so bear with me.
Backupper Professional is available for $39.95 annually (often on sale), which bumps up to $59.95 if you add Aomei Cloud with 1TB of storage. As of July 18 2025, this was discounted to $49.95.
A perpetual license is $69.95 for one user, or $89.95 for five users, but this doesn’t include cloud storage. Aomei offers this to perpetual users at $20 a year according to media relations, or $30 according to tech support. Either way, it’s quite the bargain, though it can only be used in conjunction with Backupper. OneDrive is $70 annually for 1TB by way of comparison.
These are your options when purchasing the far more versatile Professional version of Backupper. Cloud storage raises the first price to $50.
There are also small business plans: Workstation for $50 yearly with PXE boot ($60 with the 1TB of online storage), Server for $150 with support for various Windows server operating systems. Additionally, two enterprise-oriented versions are available: Technician for $499, and Technician Plus for $699 with image deployment and the portable version.
While many of the advanced features discussed above are available only in the Professional and Enterprise versions of Backupper, many users will be just fine with the basics available in the free version. There’s a version comparison here if you want the complete lowdown.
How fast and reliable is Aomei Backupper Pro?
After some initial issues on our software test bed due to other software installed (most likely detritus from a failed FileShadow uninstall), Backupper performed both quickly and without error. Imaging, file backup, and sync to both local, network, and online proceeded apace given the bandwidth available on each medium. However…
While creating recovery ISOs was easy, including automatic download of the required Windows PE files, neither the Linux or Windows PE recovery media that Backupper Professional created would boot properly on real machines (VMs were fine). In fact, the PE disk didn’t even register as bootable in the BIOS no matter what secure boot and trusted computing settings I used. The Linux version did register as bootable, but wouldn’t successfully boot.
Using the free and super flexible Rufus 4.8 boot disk creator to write the Backupper ISOs fixed the PE boot issue, but the Linux version still would not boot properly. Once I had successfully created a PE recovery disk, the system restore operation performed flawlessly. But the problematic creation needs to be addressed by Aomei. You shouldn’t need to download another utility to create a recovery disk. Contact the author of Rufus.
Yes, Backupper supports burning optical boot discs for disaster recovery. However, only its PE ISO written using Rufus 4.8 booted reliably.
While all operations succeeded in the end, Backupper is occasionally rough around the edges and not particularly informative if something goes wrong. For instance, when I tried to back up a network location that had too much data for the local destination, it didn’t inform me of that. It just “cancelled” the job with an error 23 in the log.
Another small glitch was that when creating a new folder in the destination selection dialog, Backupper didn’t update the name when I renamed the folder to something meaningful. It instead said it couldn’t find “New folder.” Selecting another item, and then the renamed folder, fixed the issue.
These last two are indeed minor issues, but along with the link-less help PDF, and especially the boot disk creation failures, they do give me the impression that perhaps Aomei’s programmers and testers don’t sweat the details as much as they should.
Regardless, in the end, when I didn’t try to overload a destination and had cleaned out the test bed, Backupper proved fast and stable. A real improvement over the last iteration.
Should you buy Aomei Backupper?
Imaging, file backup, and disaster recovery for $40 with 1TB of online storage for $10 to $30 a year more is fantastic, even if the latter is only usable for Backupper backups. And I like that there’s still a perpetual license option. Too many vendors are going subscription-only in an age where there’s not enough improvement ahead to warrant yearly fees. At least when there’s no storage or anti-malware involved.
However, Aomei’s continuing lack of attention to fine details, and the recovery media creation issues cost it half a star. That said, all operations succeeded — the backup bottom line.
Note that you can use any backup software, including the free Backupper Standard, with nearly any online storage service these days thanks to cloud storage managers.
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