
In this example I’m using a virtual hard drive, but you’ll want to make a full backup of the C drive and copy it to an external drive. You can also select a home NAS unit but these are typically more expensive. I always purchase one (or more) Western Digital USB hard drives to make a full backup. Once you’ve built the rescue/WinPE it will ask you what sort of backup you want. It will ask you if you want to make an ISO, or a flash drive or a cdrom drive. You can also try each of these backup software out for 30 days to see if you like one versus the other.Īfter you purchase the software, and enter the activation key the first thing it will ask you to do is if you want to create a WinPE bootable disk EaseUS told me that a system restore from the cloud will be supported within the coming year, but at the moment online storage isn’t supported in any way from the boot disk.First I recommend buying the software – because it gives you additional options such as building automatic Windows PE and inserting boot options. This of course requires that you’ve imaged the drive previously and the backup must be local.

You can, of course, back up to any type of storage that you can mount and assign a drive letter to.ĮaseUS ToDo Backup can also be run from its own Windows PE (Pre-install Environment) boot disk (i.e., emergency disk), should your system crash and you need to restore it. Optical is supported by all paid versions, along with most other removable media. LTO tape is supported on the $49 Enterprise Workstation version, but that’s not reviewed here. The program also supports a wide variety of hardware backup media. You can also split backups to accommodate smaller target media such as optical discs.

There’s also, of course, the usual array of backup bells and whistles: scheduling (including smart near-real time backups), pre- and post-backup commands, raw or data-only images, password protection, file filtering, after-job email notifications, compression and CPU settings, etc. The Yearly price will jump to $59.95 with the 1TB of cloud storage. These are the three basic end user flavors of ToDo Backup.
