Time Machine Program
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About Time Machine As a disaster recovery and backup feature, Time Machine in Mac does a great job indeed. Currently, every Mac computer comes with Time Machine. It saves hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month until the volume runs out of space. Using the Time Machine Editor, you don’t need to keep Time Machine running all the time. Other schedule modifications can also be done from the Time Machine Editor. On the other hand, the process of preserving and discarding the backups is still handled by Time Machine since the Editor will only modify the schedule.
About Time Machine
As a disaster recovery and backup feature, Time Machine in Mac does a great job indeed.Currently, every Mac computer comes with Time Machine. It saves hourly backups for the past24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than amonth until the volume runs out of space.
One can easily go back to the time point hours ago or days ago, and find out how the files ordocuments look like at that point. That’s why it is called “Time Machine”. All of these canbe done with an external hard drive or network attached storage (NAS).
Why Need Time Machine Windows Equivalent?
So excellent it is, Time Machine could be only applied in Apple macOS. For user who isrunning Windows OS, the Time Machine like software for Windows 7, 8, or 10 is quitenecessary. With limited functions of Windows built-in backup tools, many users are lookingfor the alternativeto Windows Backup and Restore as well as File History.
As a result, relying on third-party backup utility becomes an unavoidable phenomenon.However, which one on the market could be the most-like Time Machine software? Let’s discussit from the following aspects.
Windows Equivalent of Time Machine – AOMEI Backupper Professional
To know if the software is similar to the piece you used before, just check if thehighlighted features of the old software are embedded with this software. The reason torecommend AOMEI Backupper Professional (Windows 10, 8/8.1,7, XP and Vista supported) here is that it contains almost all outstanding features in TimeMachine. At the meantime, some helpful features that Time Machine does not have can be foundhere. Now, let’s get to know these functions one by one.
Schedule Backup
As we know, Time Machine do Hourly backup, Daily backup as well as Weekly backup. All backupsrun automatically, so that you can do “set-it-and-forget-it” backup. It is quite helpful foruser who is busy with other stuff or just has a bad memory.
Likewise, the Schedule inAOMEI Backupper also provides this type of backup. It provides daily, weekly, monthly,event-trigger, and USB plug-in backup types and the “Interval” option in daily backup allowsyou to backup every 1/2/3/4/6 hours. One can easily switch between one-time backup andschedule backup through the path: Home > the backup task >Schedule.
Incremental & Differential Backup
Time Machine creates incremental backups of files that can be restored at a later date. Itallows users to restore the whole system or specific files from the Recovery HD or the macOSInstall DVD. This also explains Time Machine does not take much space on backup drive, norspend much time for backup.
AOMEI Backupper allows user to create full, incrementaland differential backup to fully protect the entire computer and minimize the storagespace at the same time. “Run missed backup at the next system startup” will be of great helpwhen the external storage is unplugged temporarily.
Delete Old Backups Automatically
Time Machine saves hourly backups, daily backups and weekly backups of the computer.Obviously, many backups would be created. If there is not enough space for further backup,the oldest backups will be deleted when the disk becomes full.
The feature Scheme in AOMEI Backupper has the sameeffect in deleting old backups. In fact, it can delete old backups even when there is enoughspace on the external backup disk.
Password Protection for Backups
You can choose to encrypt your backups using Time Machine. If you do that you will need apassword to access your backups. You can find the same feature in AOMEI Backupper as well.In Backup Options, you are allowed to set passwordfor the images before you start the backup.
Selective Files Restore
When you need to find a particular file that you have deleted, just navigate to the locationthe file used to be stored, start Time Machine, scroll mouse up and down on the right sideand find the backup point. This is effective because most backup tools on the market requirerestoring the entire backup image to get one or two particular files.
Fortunately, the Time Machine alternative, AOMEI Backupper Professional, provides selective files restore to restoreindividual files. You can preview the backup files first by exploring image.
Besides these similar features in Time Machine backup and restore, there are some functionsthat may be useful in AOMEI Backupper:
VSS service for backup without interrupting (also known as hot backup).
Create BootableMedia in case the system breaks down and cannot boot one day.
NAS, network share, USB flash drive, thumb drive, SSHD, external disk, etc aresupported.
MBR and GPT, FAT/FAT32 and NTFS are supported.
Disk to disk clone, system clone, and partition clone are available.
Time Machine Program For Windows
Tips: All covered features apply to System Backup, Disk Backup, PartitionBackup as well as File Backup in AOMEI Backupper Professional.
Verdict
Time Machine Program
Although there is not a Time Machine for Windows, we can find its equivalent to get the sameresult. AOMEI Backupper Professional, as an all-around backup utility, could be the bestTime Machine Windows equivalent for Windows 10 and Windows 7. To learn the specific steps ofbacking up computer using this alternative, please view backup entire PC to external harddrive. It is not easy to find a well-content equivalent, just enjoy!