Best NovaBACKUP Alternative - AOMEI Backupper in Windows 10/8/7

We will show you the best NovaBACKUP PC alternative, and give you details to create automatic backups with the NovaBACKUP alternative - AOMEI Backupper, try it to protect your data continuously.

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By Ivy Updated on October 17, 2022

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About NovaBACKUP PC

NovaBACKUP PC is a paid backup software for Windows PCs and laptops, which developed by NovaStor. The supported Windows operating system includes Windows 7, 8, and 10. NovaBACKUP has other two versions: NovaBACKUP Server, NovaBACKUP Cloud.

NovaBACKUP

You could backup data to local disk, NAS, single tape and NovaBACKUP Cloud. Besides, you could create automatic computer backup, full backup, incremental and differential backup, local and off-site PC backup, encrypt the backups to help you get the full disaster recovery protection.

However, you may find the NovaBACKUP not working problems as follows, find the quick fixes below:

  • NovaBACKUP retention not working. Add retention to the Schedule, or get full access rights to the target.

  • NovaBACKUP Image Backup failure. Restart the disaster recovery imaging service, reboot the computer, ensure the you are not imaging system reserved partition or EFI partitions, cleanup the drive to get free space, or ensure the hard disk larger than 2TB is GPT, etc.

Hence, you may look for NovaBACKUP PC alternative for your Windows 10/8/7.

Best Alternative to NovaBACKUP PC - AOMEI Backupper

If you are looking for NovaBACKUP alternative, it’s highly recommended to use the AOMEI Backupper Professional, which is available in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, including 32-bit and 64-bit versions. To make it clear what the difference between NovaBACKUP PC and AOMEI Backupper Professional, please refer to the following chart:

Comparison

NovaBACKUP PC

AOMEI Backupper Professional

Price

$49.95

$49.95

Supported OS

Windows 7/8/10

Windows Vista/XP/7/8/8.1/10

Features

File/Folder, System, Partition, Disk Backup

Schedule/Incremental/Differential/Full Backup

System, Partition, Disk Clone

-

File Sync(Copy)

Two-Way Sync

-

Real-Time Sync

-

Mirror Sync

-

Dissimilar Hardware Restore

Create Bootable Media

Encryption

Compression

Command Line Backup/Restore/Clone

-

Merge Backup Images

-

Destination

Local/External Disk/Removable Disk/Cloud Drive/NAS/CD/DVD

  • - means not supported;

  • √ means supported.

According to the above chart, AOMEI Backupper Professional is more flexible and provides more powerful features than NovaBACKUP PC while they cost the same. Moreover, AOMEI Backupper is recommended by millions of users due to its reliable performance and comprehensive features. You could backup PC to cloud easily, or other destinations; and you can create backups on hard disk no matter MBR or GPT, no capacity limitation.

Please download the NovaBACKUP PC alternative - AOMEI Backupper Professional 30-day free trial and give it a try:

Download Free Trial Win 11/10/8.1/8/7/XP
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How to Create Automatic Backup with AOMEI Backupper

To show you how the NovaBACKUP alternative works, please refer to the following steps to create automatic disk backup:

1. On the main console, select Backup > Disk Backup subsequently.

Disk Backup

2. Click Add Disk to choose the Windows 10 hard drive as the source disk.

Add Disk

3. Choose a destination to save the Windows 10 disk image file. External hard drive is recommended, and you could backup files to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.

Select Destination

4. Hit Schedule Backup, choose Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Event triggers, USB plug in from the drop-down list.

Schedule Settings General

★Tips:
Options allows you to comment on the backup task, encrypt, compress, split the backup image, use VSS, intelligent sector backup, enable email or SMS notification, etc.
☂ Backup Scheme enables you to delete old backup images automatically when the backups over the retain number you specified to free up space.

5. Press Start Backup, choose Add the schedule and start backup now or Only add the schedule to create automatic backups at the specified time.

Start Backup to NAS Scheduled

The backup process can take 30 minutes or more, depending on the data capacity on the source disk. The more data, the longer time will be cost.

When the process of disk backup is ongoing, you can use your computer as normal thanks to the VSS technology.

The Epilogue

According to the above information, it’s no doubt that AOMEI Backupper Professional is the best NovaBACKUP PC alternative. Moreover, it provides you more features, like migrate OS to SSD with System Clone, Clone HDD to SSD without losing data, real-time sync to sync files automatically once the changes happened to the source, etc.

If you’re running Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019, including R2, and SBS 2003, 2008, 2011, try AOMEI Backupper Server to protect your computers.

For IT technicians who would like to manage backups for all clients from one central console withing LAN, please try AOMEI Centralized Backupper.

Ivy
Ivy · Editor
Ivy is an editor of AOMEI Technology, she covers backup & restore,hard disk & partitions management and cloud files transfer and so on for AOMEI. She is an outgoing girl and enjoys helping people find solutions to their problems. She loves traveling, eating, reading and so on. She usually hangs out with friends at her leisure time.