USB Backup Tool for Protecting Data

AOMEI Backupper is the best free USB backup software that enables you to backup, restore, and clone data from computer to USB flash drives. Reversely, you can backup your data in USB to computer as well. Whatever you do, the purpose is to protect your data from any accidents. But it's not limited to this, you could learn more in Overview.

Why Do We Need USB Backup Software?

  • For individual users: Regularly back up personal documents, photos, and videos onto a USB drive, ensuring protection against accidental deletions or computer failures.
  • For small business owner: Create regular backups of critical business data, enabling quick recovery in case of hardware malfunctions, data corruption, or cyberattacks.
  • For freelancer or remote worker: Maintain copies of project files, contracts, and important work-related documents on a portable USB drive for easy access and data security.
  • For student: Back up research papers, assignments, and project files, providing a safety net in case of laptop malfunctions or file corruption.

Features of USB Backup Software

  • System Backup and Restore: Backup system to a USB drive or other external hard drives and restore it.
  • Disk Backup and Restore: Backup a USB flash drive or backup a local disk to USB and restore it.
  • Partition Backup and Restore: Backup USB partitions or local partitions and restore them to original place or other locations.
  • File Bakcup and Restore: Backup files and folders from/to a USB drive and restore them easily.
  • File Sync: Sync folders between your computer and a USB flash drive.
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  • Disk Clone: Clone data and files from a USB drive to another USB drive or an HDD/SSD.
  • Partition Clone: Clone data and files on a USB partition to another partition.
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  • Create Bootable Media: Create a USB recovery drive to save you from computer crashing.
  • Explore Image: Mount system/disk/partition backup images as virtual partitions in computer, allowing you to extract files from the backup image.
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  • Compression: Compress backup images so they won’t take much space.
  • Splitting: Divide big backup images into smaller ones to fit into different storage devices.
  • Notification: Provide Hotmail server, Gmail server, AOMEI server [paid], AOMEI SMS [paid] and custom SMTP [paid] for email or SMS notifications.
  • Intelligent sector: Offer intelligent sector backup and sector-by-sector backup.
  • VSS: Allow to backup data without interrupting operation in progress.
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How to Run Automatic USB Backup?

AOMEI Backupper is powerful USB auto backup software. Follow the steps below to backup a USB drive automatically in Windows:

Step 1. Connect the USB drive to your computer and make sure it is detected. Click “Backup” and select Disk Backup.

Step 2. Click Add Disk to select the USB drive to be backed up.

Step 3. Click the folder shaped button in the second column to select a destination path to save the backup image.

Step 4. Click Schedule to set the backup frequency.

Step 5. Click Start Backup and select Add the schedule and start backup now or Only add the schedule.

Users’ Concerns about USB Backup Software

Will my USB storage device be erased while creating bootable USB？
Yes, it will. You need to make a backup your data in USB storage device in advance, but after creating successfully, you can store data in your USB drive.
Is there any space requirement on USB when I create bootable USB?
No, in rationale, if you want to create bootable USB with AOMEI Backupper, it will be OK that you use a USB storage device with 100MB. But, if you want to create a USB recovery drive, you need to consider if it can store system backup image or not. The larger system is, the larger the storage device space needs to be.
Why doesn’t AOMEI Backupper read my USB storage device?
You need to check if USB storage device is plugged in USB port or not. If it can be displayed in Windows Explorer, you need to check if your external hard disk is big sector such as 4096. AOMEI Backupper can’t support big sector hard drive.
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