How to Restore Your System From Full/Incremental/Differential Backups?

Hasleo Backup Suite Free offers comprehensive data protection with free backup, restore functions for files, partitions/disks, and systems. This guide provides step-by-step instructions on restoring your system from full/incremental/differential backups created by the software.

• Why should you back up your system?
• Best free Windows backup software—Hasleo Backup Suite
• How to Restore Your System From Full/Incremental/Differential Backups?
• Conclusion

Why should you back up your system?

System disk failures, accidental file deletion, and virus or malware attacks can all lead to a system crash. Therefore, maintaining regular system backups is the most effective protective measure. The core purpose of a backup system is to quickly and reliably restore operations to normal in the event of data loss, system crash, or disaster, ensuring continuity and security. Especially for businesses, a production system shutdown can cause significant financial losses. Restoring from a backup is typically far faster than repairing the system, thereby minimizing downtime as much as possible. Additionally, you can back up various compatible OS versions for testing purposes.

Best free Windows backup software—Hasleo Backup Suite

Hasleo Backup Suite Free is powerful and free software from Hasleo. It provides comprehensive support for backing up, restoring Windows operating systems, disks/partitions and files/folders. Additionally, it also supports creating a WinPE emergency disk, enabling quick system recovery even when the OS cannot boot. The following are the notable features of the Hasleo Backup Suite:

1. Comprehensive and powerful: Its backup and restore features let you create system images effortlessly and recover from crashes instantly, while the cloning function promotes seamless data migration.
2. Advanced technology and excellent performance: Compatible with all Windows PCs and servers, it supports Windows x86/x64 and ARM64 architectures. It boots in both UEFI and Legacy BIOS modes, ensures safe and stable program running, and operates with high efficiency and low power consumption.
3. Multiple backup modes: It supports full, incremental and differential backups. Following an initial full backup, both incremental and differential backups save time and storage space by only copying the data that has changed.
4. Features compression and encryption: It allows you to compress backup images to save disk space and encrypt them to protect your important data.
5. Practical Toolbox: Here you can access advanced features like creating a WinPE emergency disk, merging backup images, and securely wiping disks.
6. Intuitive and user-friendly interface: The interface design is clear, with the main functions immediately obvious, and guided prompts allow even beginners to get started quickly.

Whether you are a regular user or an IT professional, Hasleo Backup Suite offers the powerful and comprehensive features to meet your various needs. If you are looking for free backup software, it is your best choice available.

 

How to Restore Your System From Full/Incremental/Differential Backups?

Once you have created a system backup using Hasleo Backup Suite Free, you can restore your system to a previous state by selecting a full/incremental/differential backup version that you created earlier. Here is a detailed step-by-step guide.

Step 1. Run Hasleo Backup Suite Free. Click the "Home" button in the navigation bar. Then in the operations area, you can see the backup tasks you have created. Select the system backup task you need, click "Actions", and choose "Restore" from the dropdown menu.

 

* Tips: You can also click the "Restore" button in the navigation bar to restore your system by selecting the relevant task or browsing image files.

Step 2. Click "Change version" to display the system backups list.

 

* Tips:

1. If you want to restore your entire operating system, please choose "System mode" in the upper-right corner. To restore a single partition, please select "Partition mode". For recovering individual files, please use "File mode".
2. Important Note: Restoring only the Windows partition in "Partition Mode" may result in a system that fails to boot or function properly.

Step 3. Select the system backup version you want to restore from the list, and then click "Next".

 

* Tips: When restoring from a system incremental or differential backup version, the program will automatically extract the required data blocks from the relevant backup chain. This process rolls the system back to its exact state at the time of the backup.

Step 4. Select the destination disk you want to restore the Windows operating system to, then click "Next".

 

* Tips:

1. The Restore to original location option enables you to restore the Windows operating system to its original location on the original disk without damaging other partitions. Please note that this option is only available in "System mode".
2. The Keep partition layout option ensures the partition layout of the destination disk is identical to the source disk after cloning. Please note that this option is only available in "System mode".

Step 5. Adjust the size and position of the partitions as needed, then click "Proceed".

 

* Disk alignment:

1. 1M (Recommended): 1M alignment is a subset of 4K alignment. Partitions aligned to 1MB are always 4K-aligned, which helps you get the best SSD performance. In Windows Vista and later operating systems, partitions created using Windows Disk Management are always aligned to 1MB bytes, regardless of whether the disk is an SSD.
2. 4K: This option ensures the starting sector of every partition is aligned on a 4K bytes, which is very important for the best performance of an SSD.
3. Cylinder: Ensure the starting sector of each destination partition always starts at the beginning of a cylinder. Windows XP and previous OSs use this alignment mode.
4. None: The start sector of each the destination partitions is not aligned.

* The Sector by sector restore partition option copies every sector from the source partition to the destination partition, including unused sectors.

Step 6. The system will pop up a warning message, prompting you that all data on the selected drive will be deleted. Please back up your important data in advance. If you have already backed up your data or do not wish to, click "Yes" to continue.

 

Step 7. Hasleo Backup Suite Free is now restoring the Windows operating system to the target disk. The required time for this process depends on the size of data being restored; please be patient.

 

* Tips: Here you can specify a power management action to be performed after the backup is complete.

Conclusion

As professional backup software, Hasleo Backup Suite Free can not only back up your system but also restore it easily from previously created full/incremental/differential system backups. Especially for incremental and differential system backups, you are not required to manually restore all versions in the backup chain. Simply select the incremental/differential backup version to restore to. The program will automatically extract all the necessary data from the related backup chain and perform the restoration.

In addition, you can create free backup schedules and WinPE emergency disks, and experience features like disk cloning and encryption. With so much value, it's the perfect free backup solution. Download now and see for yourself!