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Genie Backup Manager AI

Your files, on a drive you own.

Back up your PC to a disk, USB drive, NAS or S3 bucket. No account. No subscription.

Windows 11 and 10 · x64 and ARM64

GBM AI on Windows: the Home screen with all six jobs healthy, Ask Genie drafting a backup from a sentence, and a restore point marked verified and encrypted.

Ask Genie

Describe it. Genie sets it up.

Say what you want backed up. Check the plan. Nothing runs until you approve it.

How Ask Genie works

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Ready on the day you need it.

Complete

Open files, and OneDrive files kept only online.

Verified

Every run to a disk, USB drive or NAS is read back and checked.

Searchable

Find any file, even with the drive unplugged.

Restorable

Back where it was, or anywhere else.

Schedules

It runs on its own.

Set it once. With the Windows service in Pro, it runs even when nobody is signed in.

Schedules and the service

4 min

from restart to backup, with nobody signed in.

Measured on a fresh Windows 11 PC (x64), 18 September 2026.

Back up to what you already own.

Your files never go to Genie9.

Destinations

Where should the backups go? The app's own choice: This PC or USB, a network share or NAS, or S3-compatible cloud such as Amazon S3, Backblaze B2 or MinIO.

NAS and network shares with Home. S3-compatible cloud with Pro.

Reliability

Pull the drive out. Nothing breaks.

Put it back within fifteen minutes and the backup carries on where it was.

Verification and waiting

A finished backup run: completed, 4,323 new files, 0 errors, verify OK with 4,323 files checked, and the run's timeline from started to done.

Buy it once.

A year of updates is included. It keeps working after that.

Compare editions

Free

$0

for ever · 1 PC

2 backup jobs
Local and USB drives

Home

$39

once · 3 PCs

Unlimited jobs
NAS and encryption

Pro

$79

once · 5 PCs

Everything in Home
S3 and signed-out runs

Restore is always free.

In every edition. Even after a trial ends or a licence lapses.

A backup's points in time, verified and encrypted, ready to browse; and the file index: 9,166 files in 6 backup sets, searchable with the drive unplugged.

Twenty years of Genie Backup Manager.

First released in 2003. Rebuilt from the ground up for 2026. Genie Timeline users are home too.

Coming from GBM 9 or Genie Timeline

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No account. No card.