The previous free version of Easeus Todo Backup was a recommendation in our Windows backup software overview. Easeus recently pushed out a new version of the program. Easeus Todo Backup Free 3.0 is still a free backup software for Windows. The developers have improved the software significantly.
If you know the old version you won’t see huge differences interface wise. The interface actually looks almost exactly like it looked in version 2. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, considering that you can reach every program feature with a click or two.
When you start the program it opens with the Home screen, which links to several of the most popular backup options. Here you can create a system or file backup, clone a disk or open backup management to configure backup parameters and schedules.
Easeus Todo Backup Free 3.0 supports three different backup options. You can use the application to create a disk and partition backup, a file backup or a system backup. It is now possible to backup dynamic volumes in addition to a full hard drive, partition, individual files or an operating system.
The backup software comes with several features that you would not necessarily expect from a free program, like the ability to clone a partition, to backup network data or mounting backups as a virtual partition to explore it and access files. You can also check the integrity of existing backup files easily from within the application.
One of the biggest new features of version 3 of Easeus Todo Backup Free is the ability to create incremental and differential backups. Incremental backups only backup changed files which saves time and storage space. Differential backups on the other hand only backup files that have changed since the last backup.
The first thing that you may want to do after installing the software is to create an emergency disk. You can use that disk to recover a system in case it is not longer booting or responding. Bootable disks can be created on an USB drive, CD or DVD media, and exported as an ISO image for later burning.
Once you have done that you can start backing up data on your system. Disk, partition and system backups are only possible if you have enough free storage space on a different local or network drive. I recommend an external hard drive with enough storage for that, but the choice is yours.
File backup on the other hand may not require as much storage space. The backup program suggests some often used locations for backup, like the My Documents folder structure or the desktop. You can switch to a file types selection backup to only backup certain types of files like financial files, emails or documents.
While it is possible to add file extensions to those groups, it is not possible to create your own custom group which seems to be a shortcoming.
The free version lacks features that the commercial backup versions offer. It is for instance not possible to backup SQL databases or Exchange data, or to select tape as the backup location. The free version furthermore does not support Windows Server.
Easeus Todo Backup Free 3.0 is regardless of that an advanced backup solution for home computer owners who want a more sophisticated program than the default backup that the Windows operating system offers. You can download the latest version of the free backup software from the official product homepage.
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