Firstly, the Clone option is basically only a placeholder meant to entice you to pay-up, and the utilities will be somewhat hobbled (ie when you select some you will be asked to upgrade before you can use them). This layout and options are nearly exactly alike regardless if you are using the free trial version or the paid version.

Obviously, if you want to start a cloning operation and clone one drive to another you would select the Clone button and when pressed the rest of the application’s screen would change to that section’s options. Once again, very obvious and self-explanatory… just the way it should be. These are ‘Home’ (which is self-explanatory), Backup (ditto), Restore (ditto redux), clone (obvious), and Utilities. Running along the left side of the screen will be five major sections. For those who have never used a backup & restore application before it will take you mere seconds to ‘get’ the underlying philosophy behind the UI.

So much so anyone who has used older versions of Acronis will be right at home.

When you open Aomei’s Backupper for the first time you will be greeted with a User Interface and layout that is very, very reminiscent of Acronis True Image.

Aomei backupper standard portable