Backing up With EaseUS Todo Free
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- ⏰ Microsoft is removing image backup capability from Windows. We'll make an image backup using a free third-party alternative.
⏰ Using EaseUS Todo to create a backup image
After installing the free version of EaseUS Todo, create a backup image is as easy as clicking on Create Backup, selecting a disk backup, choosing your external drive as a destination, and clicking on Backup Now. The result, placed on your external drive, is easy to examine and can be used to restore individual files, or the entire hard disk.
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A free tool that’s easy to use.
Yes indeed it is free. However this program is made in China. Please be aware that it can be used as a surveillance tool by the CCP. When you install the program for the first time, it always wants to phone back to the server in China. I have installed a firewall and has detected that the program is constantly connecting outbound traffic back to the server. For me, concerning about privacy issue, personally I am sticking with the UK program -Macrium Reflect free v8 for as long as I can.😱😯😦
China is a good country but unethical. Same as EaseUs! @@liukuohao1
@@liukuohao1 Indeed. Security matters. I always check the origin of software before downloading and installing. I'm trying out "PARAGON Backup & Recovery" (Germany). R-Drive Image is also a good option (Canada).
I didn't check the box for recovery partition or else it give me an error. I've checked on drive to do a system image which the backup calls it partition backup.
Leo I've stumbled on you for many years, this was probably the biggest gap between seeing you pop up. You were helping me before UA-cam was. Amazed to see your still the guy!
Great and clear explanation if you want to make an image of your C drive!!! with EaseUS. Before I had seen this video, I did the same as with Macrium Reflect and only made a backup of the C drive that I could then restore and that always went well. But before I saw this video I did the same thing with ease US and my computer could no longer boot and the dealer had to set everything up again. This video shows me what I did wrong. You have to backup the entire disk that C is on, in my case disk 1, and when you restore it, everything appears to go perfectly. Thank you very much for the clear explanation Leo!!!
Very clear, concise and understandable. Thanks, Leo!
Thanks a lot for the detiled & clear explanation.
Thank you for making this video. Really useful as I was looking for a free alternative to the old Windows 7 backup.
I have a question though. I noticed you selected high compression for your image backup. However, t seems to be an option only available for paid versions of EaseUS. Could you clarify whether you are using a paid version in the video even though you are explaining how to use the free one? It's fine if that's the case. I'm just trying to understand if that's the reason I'm being asked to upgrade if I select the high compression option,
I love this program I have been using it for a few years now and have 2 lifetime licences for my computers. Its never let me down
simple and concise... thanks.
Thank you. Just what I needed.
Excelente explicación de como realizar la copia de seguridad del disco del equipo. Muchas gracias
Another great video, Leo. Does EaseUS do a bit by bit comparison of the backup the way Macrium does? Thanks.
Isn’t the Backup Filter and Backup Notification only available in the Pro version? Isn’t that what the orange heart next to those 2 tabs signifies?
Solid easy to understand advice. I'm a fan. Thx Leo! Just a heads up, EaseUS Todo free won't allow for higher compression unless stepping up to paid version. It did allow me to encrypt however.
I will be using the free version. How do I know how large a UBS drive to use? I have a 915 GB hard drive and 807 GB of free space.
great videos brian : I have an intel NUC and my
second internal hard drive (a 1. Tb. 2.5 sata drive)
is nearly full and I want to copy all the files etc. to
a new 2 Tb. 2.5. sata drive and then fit the new
hard drive into my intel NUC.
what do you recommend cloning or imaging and
what is the easist software to use. hope you can help.
thanks.
When using Cryptomator should I or do I, need to mount the vault prior to performing EaseUS backup? Thank you for covering this!
If the vault is not mounted, you're backing up encrypted files that you should be able to restore and mount later. If the vault is mounted, I'm not sure if you can specify the mounted drive to be backed up, but if you can then you would be backing up the UNencrypted files.
Leo, great presentation. I have seen many demonstrations of backups but, almost no demos of restoring the image. Big questions is 'do it work?' And how does the restore work when attempting to restore the operating system itself. Many restores do not function well when it actually comes to the operating system.
askleo.com/restoring-image-using-easeus-todo/
I just backed up 250GB of Photo files and had a 500GB backup file. Why don't I just copy the files to a differant folder? I love the way you explain things and are easy to follow. Thanks
Thanks for the video. I have a question. On 0:50 you chose Disk, but what does OS mean next to the Disk option? What's the difference between backing up a disk and an OS?
When you select OS I believe EaseUS makes some assumptions about what partitions should be included. I want ALL partitions, hence disk.
Redo rescue and rescuezilla are preferable when your own OS is corrupted(you only have 1 computer) and you need to boot off an operating system(in this case a linux-based OS) with the imaging software via a flash drive. But I've been experiencing failed backups usiing redo rescue lately, gettiing errors such as "device drive disconnected". It may be because of my partitioning sequence or the move to GPT from MBR, I dunno.
This particular method shown in the video requires you to do it on the OS layer, if the OS is corrupted, you might need to take the drive out, plop it into another system and install the easeuse todo free software in there and start the restore. Similar to Aomei Backupper software.
***** READ THIS BEFORE BACKING UP*****
If you read the comments , and I had the same situation, the back up did not work!! Well it did and it didnt. Most newer computers have the uefi system. When installing windows, windows creates these other small partitions and one of these is the efi boot loader. I had done multiple backups and for some reason when i checked off the box for the entire drive, the todo system did not see or for some reason did not back up the efi boot loader files. The end result is that when you restore, it wipes everything off and restores what it backed up. In my case, since the boot loader partition was gone, my bios would not even give me the option for the hard drive any longer, it just wasnt therre to boot to. If you are backing up the files, make sure that one of the hard drive partitions on that particular drive is around 100mb. This is likely the uefi boot loader partition. There may also be a 16 mb partition, but to be honest , I dont know what is in those folders. If you so the boot loader partition or one that is around 100mb, then you are golden. If you dont see it, wait for it to pop up, refresh, close program, etc, whatever you need to do, but dont perform the backup without also backing up the boot loader. IF YOU BACKED UP AND DID NOT HAVE THE PARTITION, YOU ARE PROBABLY WONDERING WHY YOUR HARD DRIVE IS MISSING FROM THE BIOS BOOT MENU. In my case, i fixed it. First, i loaded a copy of windows onto another drive just to get the computer up. then i loaded up disk management (or search for "create and format partitions). Using this program i did a shrink volume and made a seperate 100 mb partition on this drive. Then i followed the instructions on either of these 2 videos (which was a little intimidiating so i watched several times) and the problem was fixed. Actually the first time i just let everytign restart adn it still didnt start but as it turns out , after perfoming these few steps to remake the uefi boot loader files, you have to shut down the computer. then upon restarting , everyhting should be fine. Watch ua-cam.com/video/CZ17JrgFFhw/v-deo.htmlsi=gEeOwMNMVUAR_oX- and ua-cam.com/video/XW5ILtS6cmQ/v-deo.htmlsi=kILvyHihAqug7OIN
Very well done . I followed along , only thing was at the end the file structure oon your screen was different here , I have 16 identically labelled entries the last one being ..Local Disk C_20231207_Full_v1_15
Great video, would you have a video on doing a restore of the backup that you just created? I'm familiar using the Dell recovery tool, that would require doing a Windows 11 restore then install the EaseUS software and do a recovery, wondered if there would be a shorter method.
Thanks!
Steps 10, 11, and 12 here are what I think you're looking for: askleo.com/how-to-back-up-windows-10/
Can this be used to create a golden image to deploy on other machines? (different hardware)
Hi Leo,
I watched your video and it was fantastic!
Everyone should make backups as you detailed.
I have been caught out many times, I would like to hear your opinion on the following.
I have a dell laptop (with win11 home edition) which 'freezes' every few months and all the recovery techniques usually fail.
Luckily, over the years I have learned to save all may 'personal data' to a usb drive.
I also have a usb 'startup' drive which I had made when I bought the laptop, and luckily I managed to rebuild my laptop from 'factory' settings, but then I have to reinstall ALL programs again.
(I then copy my 'personal data' files from the usb flash drive I have)
So, now, my laptop is now working again.
But I need a better recovery process.
I bought a 2TB usb HDD, and created 2 partitions on it.
I then downloaded Veracrypt portable and saved this to partition 1.
I then downloaded easeus (free version) and saved a system image(plus incremental backups) to partition 2 of the 2TB usb drive.
I then created a easeus startup usb disk.
My question is: If my, laptop 'dies' again and I boot from the 'easeus' startup disk, will it recognise my ' vera encrypted ' partitions , including the one with the system image backup?
thankyou.
I just found your site and it’s wonderful. My program files are on C: drive while my data files are on D:. Will this back up both drives?
It can if you select both, yes.
@@askleonotenboom Leo, you simply rock. I’ll be sending a cup or two of coffee!
Thanks for sharing, but when I use the emergency pendrive it doesn't show me the computer's partitions and only shows the pendrive-type mobile drives, my solution was to install easeus on the station to be made the image and also on the stations that would receive the image, what could it be?
Leo, is it possible to use EaseUS to create an image to then deploy as a virtual machine ? ( I'm thinking of buying Macrium based on one of your prior videos. Would this be a better choice ? )
Honestly I'm not sure. It qualifies (for either program) as restoring to a completely different machine, so results might be mixed.
Great video, you have shamed me into doing proper back ups. Thanks
I backed up using the settings you provided here. I used image mode and left sector by sector back up blank. After I backed it up I could see the files on my back up drive as if I copied the files there.....but when I did a restore/recover I used the default setting called disk partition mode. However when it completed and I rebooted the PC I got no boot drive is visible. I assume I should have used file mode. Can you help with this please. I prefer Macrium but cannot afford the license fee.
I've never seen a good description of how to backup files and folders with EaseUS. I want to do incremental backups daily with a full backup weekly of about a dozen folders. Nowhere have I seen an explanation of how to do that. The confusion for me is, If i set a backup as Daily, incremental, does the program automatically make the first backup a full backup? It must, right? Or do I have to manually make the first full backup for the program? Do I have to then have two backups running, a full and an incremental, covering the same folders? Or should I click the box for "Appoint daily first backup as Full"? But I don't want a Full backup daily. Seems like everyone trying to explain this is suffering from "the curse of knowledge."
How large a USB did you use?
Leo, I want to backup my Windows 11, in a way such that when I transfer this backup to another SSD, I will get my backed up Windows 11.
Should I use OS Backup option or Drive Backup option?
Drive
Hi Leo, when I double click, or right click and choose Open from the menu presented, on the PBD back up folder of my newly installed and run EaseUS I get an empty white screen with a small blue circle going round and round forever. EeasUS stated that this has to do with my Windows environment, my PC runs on Windows 11 and it is up to date. Have you encountered this problem yourself. Any advise on how to eradicate this problem?
Thanks for demystifying this. Sorry if I missed it, but I'm not clear on whether I can make a backup image of just *one partition*. I have a system partition and a data partition on my Drive 0, and would like to make a back up image for restoring just that system partition.
Yes you can, but I generally recommend doing all partitions on the entire disk.
@@askleonotenboom Thanks
Leo, Do I need to do anything special for bitlocked drives? If I backup a bitlocked drive, then restore it to a different disk, will it open as normal with the bitlocker password? Surely I don't have to unlock it to back it up.. that would be a security issue.
Thank you kindly!
Jim
It depends HOW you configure and use Bitlocker and the backup tool. I recommend backing up the UNlocked drive, and then securing your backup some other way. You can backup the encrypted partition, but it complicates the restore process quite a bit.
How do you restore from an image created this way? Can you do it with a regular windows USB installer or do you need something else?
You create what EaseUs calls an "emergency" or "rescue" bootable USB and boot from that. This then allows you to restore the image. askleo.com/restoring-image-using-easeus-todo/ describes it.
Great video, thanks! Is there any general recommendation for how large of an external drive we would want for this?
I talk about that some here: askleo.com/external-drive-get/
@@askleonotenboom Thank you!
I'm using it right now. It's backing up at a blazing speed of 30 MB/Sec. It should be done next month. It says you can speed it up by purchasing their product. What am I doing wrong?
If your computer crashes and you can get it going again by using the emergency disk, can you restore your computer with the Image back up or do you have to use the clone option to put it back the way it was?
That's exactly what the image is for. Yes.
Excellent..
If I want to replace my existing hard drive would the EaseUS Image backup work or do I need to create a Clone. Does EaseUS have that choice? (you mention cloning at 2:40).
I see EaseUS has a Disk Copy app. It doesn't appear to be free. Have you made a video for EaseUS Disk Copy?
EaseUS Todo Image backups are all you need. Backup old drive, restore to new.
Thankyou Leo@@askleonotenboom
This time the mouse cursor didn't have that yellow shadaw , so it was a little hard to trace where it was going
LEO, Could you do a video on how to re-install windows using the backup image? You have many videos on why and how to backup, but I can't find one from you on re-imaging/restoring? What If you have to install a new blank hard drive, how does it work? Thanks in advance ----Tom
Here's one: askleo.com/restoring-image-using-easeus-todo/
Great as always - Does it support Windows 10? Do you now recomend this over your previous support for Maggrium? Sorry for spelling error!
Yes, it supports Windows 10.
@@martinpankov2736 Do you now recomend this over your previous support for image backup macrium reflect?
@@jbmorrow5390 I'm not Leo and I have never been supportive of Macrium Reflect. But If you ask me, EaseUS Todo Backup is better.
@@martinpankov2736 I understand & thank you for your reply - maybe Leo will chime in! Have a great day!
I continue to recommend both/either. Whichever works for you,. they're both good solutions.
I have EASUS Todo Backup paid verison. I use it weekly to backup my hard drive in case of system failure. I am currently examining EASUS Disk Copy pro and I don't see the point of purchasing it. It seems both EASUS TODO Backup (paid) and EAUS Disk Copy Pro (Paid) do the same thing. Both can make backups in case in case of system failure. Both can clone your system disk, both can clone one data disk to another for quick and eaasy copying of files, etc. What is the point of having both of these software? I don't see the difference unless someone can point it out.
If image backup in addition to other local and PC contents includes cloud files and emails (e.g. Google Drive, OneDrive, Gmail, Hotmail emails on Email Clients such as Thunderbird..), what happens during restore to these cloud emails and files?
After restoring backup do they get overwritten to the latest state from cloud servers during synchronization?
Between backup point and restore point there could be number of changes to cloud emails and files.
It's "supposed" to do the right thing: update the machine to the current state of your cloud account. That being said, this is a good reason to backup that cloud account before restoring the image.
Great Video, but how do you perform a Clean-up when the destination drive is getting full?
Thanks
Joe
Delete older backups typically. Depends on how many your drive can hold.
@@askleonotenboom Thanks for the quick response, I have 3 1 TB Drives an a 5TB Backup drive, but now the backup drive is getting full and I can't find a Clean up Drive Tab like Acronis has, or do I go into file explorer and delete manually?
Thanks!
@@joeop-z2186 I typically use File Explorer, yes. Sort by date is quick. I can't recall but I believe some versions of ToDo do have disk space management built in - meaning that they can be instructed to clean up space when it gets low in order to make room for the next backup. (It's possible this is in the paid version only, and I'm not in a position check - sorry).
@@askleonotenboom Thank you and I don't mind spending the $ if the paid version has that feature.
I have two hard drives on my computer, a Data D and a OS C. Will the backup only back up one, and if so will that not affect me when trying to restore my computer?
It's up to you. You can backup both and restore only one, or you can backup each individually.
Hi;
Dose it have windows + files (photos - videos - documents) + app or bundles software's that come with the laptop when you purchase it or this backup image only has windows ? Best regards.
An image backup contains EVERYTHING on the hard drive, including the hidden recovery partitions.
Thanks my friend. I did the back up yesterday but the files is almost 500GB. I could not change the compression to high as you suggested because it is only available if you buy the application.@@askleonotenboom
Thanks for your answer. The ISO file that I got from window media creation tool is around 5GB and I was told it only conatien the window. Where Can I get the ISO file with everyhting as EaseUS Todo Backup dose ? @@askleonotenboom
HI Leo It looks like the free version is not free anymore. I downloaded free version but it looks like
I have a 30 day trial. What happens after 30 days.
Hi Leo - Great information you share! Question: When creating the emergency USB (free version), of course I could not select the 'drivers' option but was able to proceed. Looks like all was successfully completed. Why does my USB drive I used in this process show with a blank folder yet when i navigate to the F: thru the software, i do see all sorts of folders, etc? Will this still work? Thank you.
It should still work. Try it. Boot from the USB stick to make sure.
@@askleonotenboom will do, thank you
@@askleonotenboom - their cust serv team said this is b/c of using the free version; will need to pay if i want to get full functionality. i understand there are free ways MS built in but are they as good as this company?
This is very helpful Leo. Thank you for your videos. I've been using Ease for a bit now, but I am still sort of new to properly backing up my C Drive on my laptop. I'm pretty sure I setup to do image backups. I think I even some how set it up to do increments. Haha. No idea how that works. I have a question. I will be getting a new PC desktop and want to basically go from my laptop Windows 10 to the new desktop with Windows 11. But rather just have all my files and data basically mirrored to my new desktop. Would this be ideal to do a clone backup?
EaseUs todo installed. New WD "My Book" 8TB USB 3 attached and recognized by desktop. I setup a folder on the drive entitle Desktop Backups. in trying to back with EaseUS I get error message "Checking the Partition found errors on partition E: backslash". What am I doing wrong? Do I need to set up a partition on the MyBook?
That looks like you're trying to back up "E:". But I think you want E: to be the destination? Check the configuration so you're backing up what you think you're backing up.
Thanks@@askleonotenboom
According to the EaseUS website, in order to create an image backup, you are supposed to select "OS". Why did you select "Disk"?
Because I disagree with their approach. OS doesn't necessarily back up all partitions on the hard disk, whereas "disk" does, regardless of what they contain.
High Leo. Thank you for this video. I'm already pretty tech savvy when it comes to applications. However, the new interface that easeUS created. I am. a bit confused as to how to set up incrementals up to a set of three before restarting to delete and restart incrementals without removing the first full backup. The objective here is to have the initial full backup, but then just subsequent incrementals for changes along the weight. You didn't cover that at all in the video, so I'm wondering if you can explain that. Thanks. Jerry, Tokyo.
UNIVERSAL RESTORE DISSIMILAR HARDWARE with EaseUS Todo Backup 16.1?
What is "Back up protection" in EaseUS Todo?
I believe it's similar to Macrium Reflects "Image Guardian" - locks down the backup images so that they cannot be affected by ransomware.
THANKS..................................................SPOT ON
every time I hear that grinding I think something in a tomb is opening (too many movies and video games)
Is it possible to shutdown the computer after backup is finished? Is there a validation of the backup? Can I do a notification to my email box, when it is finished in the free version?
It looks like Backup Notifications is only available in the paid version.
1)
@3:34 -- Excluding files from being backed up is not in the free version -- at least that is what is listed on EaseUS's version comparison chart.
I do not believe that you can enable that option on the Free version. It is probably there to entice folks to pay for an upgrade, by showing features, but not being able to enable them without paying for one of the upgrades.
These are all of their versions:
"Free", "Home", Workstation", "Server", "Advanced Server", "Technician"
My guess is that no matter which version you download, you get the same one -- only that various features will be enabled or disabled.
Pay for an upgrade, and the feature, which is already installed, gets enabled.
2)
@4:32 -- "How long your backup will take..."
On EaseUS's site, in their comparison chart, they have a "Speed" rating, from 1 (slowest) to 4 (fastest) stars.
The "Free" version has 1 star. So it looks like they might be throttling the backup's file copying speed.
Leo, did you notice a slower than expected amount of time, based on how much data you have, as well as from backing up with other software?
Did they throttle the backup speed?
3)
Was there an option to make emergency bootable media?
Also, if you screw up your computer, but it will still boot up, can you restore from your backup while Windows is running?
Or must you boot from an emergency flash drive to restore everything (to ensure no files are in use, if Windows was running)?
4)
If there is an emergency media option, can you use it on other computers?
I am considering one of the paid versions. That can get too expensive for me, if I have to make repeat purchases for every computer. And I would rather not install 3rd party software on more than one of my computers, if I can boot from emergency media and perform a backup (and restore if needed). I do crypt-o mining on a computer, and I trust no 3rd party apps for that computer. But bootable media would be a solution for me to do a backup.
How versatile is the emergency boot media?
If someone loses their computer in a burglary or fire, being able to use emergency bootable media to restore to a new computer might be critical.
Thank you.
I also noticed that some of the options described do not function in the Free version. Disappointing.
@@RotaryTeamVincent Does your free version allow you to make emergency bootable media (like booting from a USB flash drive to run EaseUS)?
Can you use that bootable media to boot other computers? Do you have another computer to see if you can boot from the flash drive, and perform a backup?
Leo is usually good at answering questions. But if he has not yet replied to my questions, which means it is unlikely he will.
I would appreciate knowing the answers to the bootable USB flash drive questions that I have. Even if you do not have all of the answers, any information you have will help me out.
Thanks...
@@RotaryTeamVincent Capitalism 101.
If one bought a new computer could they just load in the backup instead of configuring it from scratch?
The backup from another computer? No, that's fragile and can cause errors.
Can i backup like this from a windows 7 machine and then restore on a new device running windows 11? if not what is the best way to do so?
It's a fine way to copy your data. Installed programs, not so much.
@askleonotenboom then what's the point of this, could just copy data to a USB via file explorer or built in Windows backup....
What does paying for the full version of this actually provide that windows can't for free? Thanks mate
@@DomClimbs Mostly a unified tool for all your backups, and a much easier to use scheduler so it happens automatically. But yes, if you can copy data automatically, by all means go for it.
"Windows 11 allows read access to every system file, even those that are running and in memory, it's a bit nuanced. Windows utilizes mechanisms like VSS and other kernel-level features to ensure that files can be accessed for backup purposes even if they are in use. However, there might be certain system files or processes that are protected or locked for security reasons, and accessing them might require elevated privileges or specific permissions."
I usually prefer to backup system disks offline using a bootable device such as a flash drive, otherwise one should take the content of the previous paragraph into account. Backing up files that are active and constantly changing may not be a good idea.
Can you please do a video to show how to restore an entire drive image, particularly the c drive ....
You mean like this one: askleo.com/restoring-image-using-easeus-todo/ ??
@@askleonotenboom Thank you! What if there's no Emergency Disk??
@@gryster You can use EaseUS Todo on another machine to create one.
@@askleonotenboom Okay so they are not specific to the install at hand, that's great to know! Thanks Leo
how do you restore the backup if your PC won't boot ?
Not to be snarky, but ... you don't. You fix the PC first. (And to be clear, I'm assuming that "won't boot" means won't boot from ANYTHING. If you can boot from a USB stick, then you would boot from the EaseUS Emergency disk/usb and restore that way.)
@@askleonotenboom okay thanks...
can you still use free macrium reflect also
If you have it you can still use it, it'll keep working, at least for a while, but it's been discontinued: askleo.com/macrium-reflect-free-is-going-away/
@@askleonotenboom ok thanks dont need to use it was just wondering thanks again
I’ve been using easeus todo free now for 2 months, backing up my hard drive daily without any issues. Since a few days ago it refuses to backup with the error message “There’s no enough disk resource to complete the job. Please close other programs first or boot into WinPE to do the operation.” I’m using a 2TB external drive and have plenty of space in the drive and the drive is formatted using NTFS. I like easeus todo and now feel uneasy not having the hard drive backed up. Any ideas what the issue is and how to make it work again ?
This sounds like it's running out of memory (disk resource might be referring to paging file). Have you tried its suggestion of closing other programs?
Thanks for replying. There are no other programs running apart from the ones running in the background.
Am I missing something with a image backup? After completing an image backup, any files, photos, settings, folders that I create, change, rename, move or delete thereafter are not going to be on the backup. How does one deal with that?
Are there any apps that will update an image in real time?
A complete backup strategy includes, at a minimum, periodic (daily) incremental backups that back up what's changed since the previous backup. Tools like OneDrive, Dropbox and others can add more with real-time backups.
I have the daily backups of files and photos to external hard drives but once a image backup is installed none of the changes would be on the computer. How would one find and replace all the changed, deleted, or moved files and settings in the reinstalled image?
@@mnphoneemail113 Backup tools like EaseUS ToDo and Macrium Reflect (and others) handle all this transparently. You tell them to restore the most recent copy of whatever, and they handle fetching the appropriate things from the most recent incremental (or full) backup on which they're stored.
Thankyou. It looks like the key is to have daily incremental backups as you stated.
Is that really everything? The program lets the user make an image back-up in Windows while Windows is open and operating? When or if the time comes to put the image back-up onto the computer so the image can work again then one would expect Windows is no longer working in the computer, so some other thing is needed, like some program on an optical disk which will work with the backup image to put the backup image onto the computer's disk. Do yo have a demonstration video of this too?
askleo.com/restoring-image-using-easeus-todo/
@@askleonotenboom I will check that link immediately.
How do you restore using this?
askleo.com/restoring-image-using-easeus-todo/
Ok, but how do I recover that backup back onto the original drive?
askleo.com/restoring-image-using-easeus-todo/
Really helpful video but it doesn't explain how to recover a single file. I have an option to recover the whole disk but not a single file or a directory.
Can anyone suggest how to do this as I don't want to be recovering a whole disk for the sake a file or a single directory ?
Typically you can double click on the image file and it'll be mounted as a virtual drive. It's an older version of EaseUS, but this article covers it: askleo.com/restoring-file-easeus-todo-image-backup/
@@askleonotenboom Thank you for the information and coming back so soon.
It was a couple of steps I needed to do and now everything appears fine. 😀
I am trying to recover a single file which has also been subject to several incremental backups. As the backups are incremental I understand I need each incremental back up not just the original. This makes sense but what is not clear is how you recover a single file because you have a number of files from the original one to the last incrementally backed up file and each one is different.
Can anyone explain how I go about recovering the latest version of the original file ?
The backup software handles it transparently. Mount your most recent backup (incremental or whatever), and look for the file.
@@askleonotenboom For some reason it has corrupted a couple of Open Office files which now simply display garbage. I looked to delete the original and the subsequent incremental backups but the option to delete a file is not available. I was hoping if I deleted the corrupted files they may be replaced at the next back up. Is there a way to delete individual backups ?
@@we-are-electric1445 Not that I'm aware of. HOWEVER you can get older files by opening an older incremental. Let's say you have a full backup on the 1st followed by 30 incrementals. You want the file as it was on the 15th. So rather than opening the most recent incremental, you point the tool at the incremental taken on the 15. That should expose all the files as they were on that day.
@@askleonotenboom Thanks for the information. A file it has just backed up is presenting itself as what looks like hieroglyphics ! I've lost patience with this software.
I was originally using Aomei but it can be quite slow. However you don't get all these problems. There is something to be said for copying your file structure to a separate drive and backing up individual files as you go. It's a lot faster when you are at home and only working on a few files a day.
Just wanted to shadow a file. This was no help at all.
Can you show us how to use the disk image created using this software to restore from backup. For example, if I want to use this instead of system restore, and I want to revert installing a program, how would I restore from disk?
Thanks and may Allah (S.W.T.) guide you to Islam and bestow upon you His Blessings; Ameen.
askleo.com/restoring-image-using-easeus-todo/
Please note that even paid version, this software CANNOT backup system disk or partition of other PC/laptop, the restore disk will never boot. It can only backup on itself. This means you are not able to make a backup copy of your family laptop/pc conveniently with your main PC for emergency restore later. If you want to use your PC to backup other's system disk, consider other brands like Acronis, Minitool, R-drive, Veeam etc. Not only backup, EaseUS disk clone CANNOT clone system disk of other pc/laptop too, supposed to be 1:1 clone but the cloned disk will not boot.
I don't understand you comment. I backup the entire hard drive including system and all other partitions all the time.
@@askleonotenboom I mentioned many times the word "other PC, other's system", not your own PC. What I mean is, you cannot backup the system drive of your friend's or family's PC/laptop on your PC with Todo. Hmm sorry you can make a backup, but the restore will never work. You can try it, dismantle PC1 system drive, connect that HDD to your PC, use Todo to make a backup image; after that restore that image to another new HDD. That new HDD will never boot on that PC1. The disk clone does not work too, the cloned HDD will never boot on PC1. System Clone is only for self PC OS, not for other computer's system disk. Other softwares like Acronis, Minitools, R-Drive, Veeam can work that way, but not with EaseUS. Even EaseUS Partition Master cannot clone other PC's system disk, it will not boot, what a shame when a clone is not an exact copy. I complaint this to EaseUS, they have admitted about this, but gave no promise when will improve that.
EaseUS Todo is from a Chinese firm. Do you see a problem with that?
I do not. But if you do, my other recommendation is Macrium Reflect, out of the UK.
@@askleonotenboom Thanks for your answer and your videos. I did install it in the meantime. Macrium reflect is not supported anymore.
@@leatherwiz To be clear, Macrium Reflect FREE is no longer available. Macrium Reflect's paid version is absolutely available and supported.
@@askleonotenboom I played with Macrium free in the past. My Backup App of choice (until now) was Acronis with 1tb cloud backup. I’m not renewing the plan. It has too many features that I don’t use. I like the simplicity of what you suggest. My goal is to get back the ownership of my data and save some cash. Yes, I will need to invest in a few hdd but at least that’s not a reoccurring plan that you have to pay every year. Some UA-camr suggested to use file history in windows 11. Maybe I’ll try that again. Easy, works and cost is 0. As you said, main thing is that you do backup using something.
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In my experience EaseUs Todo is one of the worst backup softwares on the market. Lots of bugs and has lost twice data when recovery was attempted. There are much better solutions out there and also much cheaper and reliable.
My experience has been otherwise, of course, but that's one of the reasons I have multiple recommendations (Macrium Reflect being the other), and there are, as you say, many good solutions out there.
I have the lifetime upgrade version and have just bought another option (Bvckup 2) and it is so much better. I have as a photographer and videographer many external drives that I connect and disconnect. If one letter changes your back up job with EaseUs is in the drain. You have to change the letter but if it is already taken by another drive good luck. You are in a mess.Also some backups did not restore well (I guess that this was a compression issue). For me EaseUs is a bad software
THANKS LEO FOR WHAT U STRIVE TO DO. I'AM WANTING TO BACK UP MY AT HOME AUTO SHOP DESKTOP PC. WHICH BACK UP DEVICES MOST COST WORTHY, USB STICKS & (WHAT SIZE) OR AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE? THIS PC HAS MOSTLY AUTOMOTIVE FILES i.e. VEHICLE INFO,TUNING SOFTWARE,PARTS REPLACEMENT LISTS ,SOME CUSTOMERS VEHICLE INFO,ETC. BEST, GE.
I recommend external hard drives.