Ashampoo Backup Pro 26 review: Easy, effective PC backup [Video]

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Despite the oddball corporate moniker, Ashampoo makes some very effective software. Not the least of which is Backup Pro 26. For the average home user, it’s a friendly and solid backup solution. However, it’s missing a couple of features that would make it truly “pro.”

If there’s a backup task or methodology, Backup Pro 26 generally offers a user-friendly implementation of it. Imaging of entire partitions and drives, backup of files and folders, real-time backup, incremental (not differential) backup, and disaster recovery — including boot media.

Note that the real-time backup was so laggy in my testing (up to a couple of minutes), that I asked if it’s actually continuous. Real time means that any file change instantly invokes a backup, which is how Ashampoo describes it, while continuous is simply very granular (a couple of minutes or so) scheduled backup. I had not received an answer as of the …