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The best Windows backup software is Easeus Todo Backup 2025. It has everything PCWorld expects to see in a top product: A polished interface, intuitive functionality, a comprehensive approach to backing up data including imaging, file backup, sync, and disaster recovery. And most important, it's reliable! Todo Backup also offers the option of a perpetual license or a subscription model, the latter of which can be augmented with affordable cloud storage.

It turns out that PCWorld's favorite for-pay backup software, Easeus Todo Backup 2025, also offers a surprisingly robust free version. It matches its paid counterpart in basics such as imaging, file backup, sync, and, most especially -- disaster recovery. It also features the same eminently user-friendly interface. As with most backup freeware, you will be nagged to upgrade, and Easeus's optional cloud storage, which is surprisingly affordable, is only available at the subscription tier.

Until a few years ago, most Windows backup software was restricted to making local backups -- i.e., to another drive, external or internal, connected to your system. There were of course services such as Mozy that had their own backup clients, but that's covered in our online backup roundup. Here we're talking just plain backup programs.The situation is improving rapidly, and many backup software vendors are adding online storage services as destinations for their backups.If your favorite backup program doesn't support cloud storage directly, a cloud storage manager that integrates online stor

pCloud’s primary feature is, of course, its online storage. To upload and sync your data, the company provides clients for Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS, as well as a very well thought-out and capable web interface with some neat tricks up its sleeve. Jon L. Jacobi pCloud is unique in my experience in that it provides access to your online files via a virtual drive (pDrive with the drive letter P: — get it?!) rather than the dedicated folder metaphor that Dropbox, Google and others use. The files on P: exist only online, so you’ll need an internet connection to access them. In other words,