Backing up With EaseUS Todo Free

⏰ 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.

Chapters
0:00 Using EaseUS Todo Free
0:45 Back up c://
1:20 Back up to your external drive
2:40 Backup selections
4:10 Start the backup
5:25 Find your backup
5:50 Look inside

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[cheapshotlaughs]

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 Youtube was. Amazed to see your still the guy!

[jerger]

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!!!

[april]

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

[judyair]

Very clear, concise and understandable. Thanks, Leo!

[timothyhood]

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.

[folmonty]

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.

[jonscobey]

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?

[Gaius]

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,

[NoEggu]

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.

[johnwilliamson]

The "Personal Vault" is a OneDrive feature, that may, I am not sure, prevent files in the "vault" from getting backed up. If this is the case, some of my most important files are not getting backed up. Down the rabbit hole I go.

[mr.boniato]

According to the EaseUS website, in order to create an image backup, you are supposed to select "OS". Why did you select "Disk"?

[itpugil]

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.

[rilcuzn]

Thanks a lot for the detiled & clear explanation.

[johnfj]

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?

[PRUEBA]

Excelente explicación de como realizar la copia de seguridad del disco del equipo. Muchas gracias

[mnphoneemail]

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?

[johnwayne]

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?

[geoffphil]

Thanks for the video. Do you cover somewhere how to recover using a bootable usb and backup file?

[ChrisKadaver]

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?

[John-yrsf]

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!