[Free] How to Back up Your System Drive with AOMEI Backupper Standard?

In our lives, the most terrible thing to use a PC is losing our data. There are many possible reasons for our data loss, such as computer virus intrusion, software failure, component failure, lightning leakage or PC failure, etc. There is no guarantee that the data we read today will still be read tomorrow. Although many people understand the importance of backups, many people think it’s troublesome. To back up the system drive, you need to save the boot partition as well as the data. Another problem is how to deal with the recovery area, and invisible items cannot be saved with regular copies. In addition, because the system consists of a large number of files, copying takes a lot of time……

So no matter how much you understand the importance of backups, if you think such a challenge is waiting for you, you won’t know what to do. Here, I want to introduce a backup software to you to avoid all the above problems. It is AOMEI Backupper Standard, the best free backup software, which can complete the backup with just a few clicks, without any special skills knowledge.

How to Use AOMEI Backupper Standard to Backup System Drive in Windows 10?

First, download and open AOMEI Backupper Standard securely from the official website. No need to worry, the standard version is completely free to use. After launching it, select the “Backup” option from the menu on the left and then click “System Backup”.

Next, specify the location of the system drive where the backup will be saved and click the “Start Backup” button.

Finally, all you have to do is wait for the backup to complete. In my personal use, I copied a 168 GB system drive to an external HDD, but it shows that the remaining 120 GB takes about 40 minutes. The actual time required to back up this system drive is about 30 minutes. If you copy a lot of files, you know that it is very fast. If you copy, paste and save thousands of files, it will take more than two hours. And AOMEI Bukupper Standard also compresses image files.

Now, you will find those system backups that you think will be cumbersome are done in just a few simple steps.

Incremental and Differential Backup of AOMEI Backupper Standard

AOMEI Backupper Standard provides incremental and differential backup for us. Incremental backup means backing up all changed data based on the last backup (full or incremental). A differential backup is a method to save only the changed parts compared to previously saved image files. Because only differential files need to be saved, this type of backup is faster and requires less space than a full backup. 

Right-click on the “System Backup” item we just created and select “Backup” > “Incremental Backup”/“Differential Backup”.

We can also use the Schedule function to set up automatic incremental/differential backups. Note that the AOMEI Backupper Professional version supports scheduled differential backups. If you want, you can purchase the Professional version to experience this feature. In this way, you can add plans to customize your backup plan. For example, if you set your scheduled backup at 10 am in daily mode, it will run a full backup at 10 am on the first day and do an incremental/differential backup at 10 am the next day. Running incremental/differential backups on a schedule will save us a lot of trouble, otherwise, we need to do the backup manually every time.

Final Words

The above is how to use AOMEI Backupper Standard for system backup according to my own use. Its interface is very simple, the whole operation is very easy as you can see, and the software is highly available. As the best backup software, it has many functions, in addition to the above, there are other useful functions, such as folder synchronization and drive cloning. The most important thing is that the AOMEI Backupper Standard is completely FREE. Although the standard version has some functional limitations compared to the professional version, I think the free version has enough functions for personal use. In recent years, personal computers have become quite popular and data loss events often occur around us. I sincerely recommend that everyone must do regular backups to protect your important data. Fortunately, AOMEI Backupper Standard can help you do this so that you will never be bothered by data loss again.