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EASEUS Todo Backup Free Disk Imaging Software (Norton Ghost Alternative)

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Oct
31
2009
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Macrium Reflect is a great software to create a full backup of your hard drive or partition so that you can restore it back exactly the way it was when you created the backup. I have the full version of Macrium Reflect installed on my Acer laptop running Windows 7 and I find it very useful whenever I want to install and test any software because I can first create a full backup and then if anything goes wrong, I can simply restore it back. FYI, I never used System Restore and that’s the first thing I disable after installing Windows :P Don’t ask why, I just prefer to put my trust in disk imaging rather than Windows System Restore. Recently I got to know another disk cloning software which is FREE from EASEUS called Todo Backup.

free easeus todo backup ghost alternative

EASEUS Todo Backup is comprehensive backup software, which not only provides convenient user-interface to simplify your tasks but also enables you to backup and restore an image of your partitions or entire hard disk. EASEUS Todo Backup enables users to backup and restore data in multiple ways for their data security. At the same time, for user-friendly operation, EASEUS Todo Backup also provides journaling.

Let’s check out EASEUS Todo Backup…


The main function for EASEUS Todo Backup is Backup, Restore, Check image file, Mount, Unmount and Clone disk. When I say backup, it doesn’t mean backing up a files or folders. It means backing up the entire current state of your computer into a file. For example, let’s say you created a full backup on 1st January 2009. Then after 8 months of messing around with Windows, it became very corrupted and unable to boot up. So now you restore back the Windows using the image that you created 8 months, it actually gives you back Windows the way it was when you created the image on 1st January 2009. Get it?

The program itself is pretty self explanatory. When you launch the program, you will see 3 main big buttons which is Backup, Restore and Clone. Mount is for mounting the image file as a virtual physical partition to explore or copy files in the backup image.

EASEUS Todo Backup also includes a Media Builder where it allows us to create a bootable CD/DVD. I’d say that the bootable disc is a must to create because most of the time you’ll only need to restore your computer is when you cannot boot up Windows. To create bootable media, run Todo Backup 1.0 Media Builder wizard by selecting “Tools” and “Create Bootable CD”. You can also run Bootable Media Builder without loading Todo Backup 1.0 by selecting “Programs”-> “EASEUS Todo Backup 1″-> “Bootable Media Builder” from the Start menu. You can also directly burn a bootable disc from the ISO image file located in C:\Program Files\EASEUS\EASEUS Todo Backup 1.0\bin\image.iso. When you boot up the computer with the boot CD, you should see a screen like the image below.
todo backup boot cd
Just like Macrium Reflect, Todo Backup 1.0 bootable CD can ONLY restore and does not create backups. The backup can only be done in Windows…

I tried creating an image on my desktop running Windows XP Professional SP3 that’s taking up only 2.55GB of space. I saved the image to my second hard drive. The backup with no compression took 1 minute, 10 seconds to complete and image file size is also 2.55GB since the compression is disabled. Then I tried the normal compression, it took 3 minutes, 43 seconds to complete and compressed the file size to 1.28GB. As for restoration, the not compressed image took 4 minutes and as for the normal compression image took 4 minutes, 25 seconds. Looks like the compression only speeds up the backup process and not much on the restore.

Todo Backup v1.0 supports Windows 2000 (SP4), XP (32 and 64 bit), Vista (32 and 64 bit), Server 2003 (32 and 64 bit), and Server 2008 (32 and 64 bit). Verified not working on Windows 7 because I tried creating a backup and my computer crashed.

[ Download EASEUS Todo Backup ]


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    • Gaurav

      sounds good Ray…but i have my backup on external drive
      i wont take it
      anyway thanks ray

    • SB

      Nice article as always Ray!

    • shaheen

      thanks

    • Amit Raina

      THANKS RAY… FOR SHARING

    • Boni

      Nice Find. Thanks Ray.

    • Ron

      tonnes of thanks raymond dear…….

    • Ryan

      Hi Ray,

      Great post.
      This is a very useful software.

      Usually I try all the softwares I see and surely this will be very useful for me to restore my C drive if something goes wrong.

      Today I searched your blog to get details about data recovery softwares for my friend, whose HDD crashed. I will refer this s/w also to him.

      Thanks.

    • ding-dong

      this is really helpful ray, thanks :D

    • http://freewarematter.blogspot.com/ FreewareMatter

      This is a good backup software. I was looking for alternative of Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image for a long time. Maybe this is what I need. I’ll try. Thank you very much for this post.

    • dell400

      thanks

    • billy13

      Thanks Ray but i prefer Macrium Reflect FREE Edition,which works on Win7…!!!

    • Dan

      So glad you posted this, I just bought an external hard drive and was deciding whether I needed software like Norton Ghost. Not anymore! Thanks.

    • San

      Thanx..Good Tool Ray

    • Stax

      Easeus recovery software was crap, so be careful.

    • http://itshouldworkwithwindows7... 0r3n

      if u’ll boot from a bootable CD/DVD… isn’t it ?

    • http://the-delightful.blogspot.com/ CS

      Thanks Raymond for the review. I’ll definitely try it out.

    • venkat

      hi raymind, its a useful s/w ,thnq.

    • Sucata Chatarra

      Macrium Reflect ($0) creates a full image of the entire boot partition; whereas, MS System Restore ($0) only images the OS settings. If one is testing frequently the EAZ-Fix Pro [(~$50) or its clone Rollback RX] snapshotting S/W creates (or restores) a full “image” of the entire boot partition almost instantly without having to deal with an image file. For periodic “backups” it can also create an image just like Reflect (Ghost, etc). It can theoretically keep 66,000 snapshots.

    • http://ficforlife.blogspot.com Hok

      I don’t like backup tool when I need to install them on windows….

    • abs

      hi ray! macrium reflect (mr) proved very useful to me… but when i started having a double-os (ubuntu), it makes me think twice to use double-os since it does not normally revert-back to the original state.
      meaning, whenever i use the mr to return to my old state of desktop, i would always have to tweak my grub…
      nonetheless, it is worth experimenting w/ this easeus to do back-up 1.0.

      as always, thanks and long live!!!

    • http://www.todo-backup.com/products/features/free-backup-software-winpe.htm Christy

      Run EASEUS Todo Backup from BartPE based boot CD-ROM
      Why use EASEUS Todo Backup from WinPE based boot CD-ROM

      EASEUS Todo Backup provides bootable disk function based on Linux for you to create bootable disk to restore the system partition. However, the drive letters will not be displayed and most of the functions are not available. By the way, EASEUS Todo Backup provides WinPE based bootable disk which is more powerful

      Linux Bootable Disk WinPE Bootable Disk
      Media Linux PEBuilder & Windows Installation CD
      Install required Yes No
      Support hardware RAID No Yes
      Support Windows 7 No Yes
      Backup No Yes

    • Raikurion

      HEY THANKS RAYMOND!

      Awesome article!!

    • Boni

      ” I never used System Restore and that’s the first thing I disable after installing Windows ”

      How do you disable System Restore ?

    • alalata

      Thanks for the info. Raymond.

    • tony

      why bother with macrium reflect or this with windows 7 when you are able to make image with the latest op and it works very well..

    • Kshiteej

      i hv done a backup of my c drive. but i hv a prob.
      the location where the backup file is saved has 4 files of the same drive but of different sizes.
      i dont know which file should i transfer to CD.
      pls help.

    • Grant

      Thanks! I was just looking for one of these yesterday…

    • alf

      Compression just saves space: you took more time to create an image and to recover it!!

    • Nerovsa

      Easus failed for me at a *very* inopportune time once and it makes me cringe to even think about this program. Meanwhile, Acronis, Ghost, and Paragon (across a variety of machines) have *never* let me down.

      IMHO, this is one category where it pays to pay.

    • Richard Booth

      Please include me on the list for a free license for Fileminimizer? Your site is Fabulous

    • haisamsamman

      thanks ray

    • Ron

      Will this software or other imaging software (I don’t care whether it is Ghost or not) do a “Hardware Independent Restore”?

      P.S. Hardware independent restore is taking an image from a computer with one set of hardware configuration and restoring it to a computer with a different set of hardware. (Say for example taking an image from a laptop and restoring it on a desktop).

      I was able to find an article that says it is possible (article by Symantec) but from the looks from things, the said software would be meant for server class environments. Is there a desktop version available?

    • Ron15

      Nice find, Ray ;)

      Sometime ago I used a free tool from Easeus to delete partitions off the HD, I just don’t remember its name..

    • Dan

      Is it possible to clone your hard drive WITHOUT deleting all of the information that’s already on the destination hard drive? Or is this just a feature that involves pay software like Norton Ghost? Thanks!

    • Bing Killsmith

      Ron,
      Try StorageCraft ShadowProtect. I think it is the best of all the imaging software. Macrium has a tutorial on their site to do this manually. Acronis has an add in for their software but I am not keen on them as their support is very bad. Symantec backup exec also has this function but it has failed when I have used it. I think Paragon has now added this function but I have not tried it.

    • Amila

      Thanks, will try it !!!

    • jcym

      Ron, also have a look at the latest Paragon HD Manager as it does it as well. I personally haven’t tried that function on Paragon’s latest version yet, but a colleague who manages a large number of different types of workstations has and, as he put it, it does just what it says on the tin :) I must admit that when it comes to any kind of HD management tools Paragon’s range have been my favorite for over a decade and they have never let me down.

    • hank smith

      hello how do you restore your image from the boot cd with out speech?

    • Nick

      Thanks for the article! I was using Todo Backup but faced with the problem that it won’t restore to a different HDD and finally, switched to Paragon Backup & Recovery (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/)– so far it works just great! my choice came to Paragon because it has the widest range of backup & recovery options at the moment. It is the only one that can do differential backups; all others can only do full backups. And, also it is the only one that can create a bootable flash drive.

    • Michael C.

      thanks ray, now i can buy a larger hard disk and restore vista sp2 settings on it!!!

    • Anonymous

      Hi Raymond,

      This is Bennie from
      EaseUS Software Company. Sorry for contacting you in this way.

      Thanks for writing
      such a great review for EaseUS Todo Backup. 

      The latest version,
      EaseUS Todo Backup Free 3.0, has been released recently with
      many new features, such as differential backup, dynamic disk
      backup and one-click system backup, etc.

      I’m wondering whether
      you can update this review or write a new one for the 3.0
      version.

      Full feature: http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm

      If you are interested
      in giving away the commercial version of Todo Backup, we
      would be glad to do that.

      Thanks in advance!

      Have a nice day.

      —
      Best regards
      Bennie
      Chengdu Yiwo Tech Co., Ltd.
      http://www.easeus.com
      http://www.partition-tool.com
      http://www.todo-backup.com

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