When comparing AOMEI Backupper vs Handy Backup, the Slant community recommends AOMEI Backupper for most people. In the question“What are the best backup programs for Windows?” AOMEI Backupper is ranked 4th while Handy Backup is ranked 16th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro User Friendly
Pro Supports multiple backup methods
In addition to full backup the program supports differential and incremental backup. And merging of incremental backups can be done via the command line.
Pro Easily clone a drive
Cloning a drive can be done without making a separate system image and allows the user to create partitions on the second drive in order to limit what space is used for the clone.
Pro Backup for ODBC Databases
The Professional edition is capable to backup and restore database tables with the help of ODBC drivers
Pro Backup to all popular clouds
The Professional edition is capable to save copies of data to all popular clouds such as Dropbox, Amazon S3, Google Drive, OneDrive and OneDrive.
Pro System backup and recovery
The Professional edition can save an image of any drive as a VHD file. Users can restore this image later, or attach this VHD file as a virtual drive and browse its content, or even run it as a complete image of a VirtualBox machine.
Pro Reliable
Reliability, one of the essential qualities of a backup tool.
Cons
Con No way to manually pause a backup
The backup process can be canceled or it can automatically pause if it encounters an issue (like the destination not having enough space for the backup), but there's no way to pause the process manually.
Con Feeling uncomfortable that it's not going to restore when really needed
Con Open image requires mounting virtual drive
Con Custom size only for pro users
You cannot set custom size for backup files on free version.