Coming from Genie Backup Manager 9
Genie Backup Manager, rebuilt.
Your drives, bought once, on your PC. Now with a new engine, Find and Ask Genie.
The same name, a new engine.
GBM 9
The last of the old line
Still running on PCs that never needed a change.
2026
Genie Backup Manager AI
Rebuilt from the ground up, by the same company.
Today
Both, side by side
Install it alongside. GBM 9 keeps its own backups.
What stays the same.
Your drives
Disks, USB and NAS. Not our cloud.
Bought once
A licence you keep. No subscription.
Your PC
Windows, under your control.
The same people
Made by Genie9, who made GBM 9.
What is better.
A rebuilt engine
Four backup types, open files, verified runs.
Find
Search every backup, drive unplugged.
Restores that wait
Start it now; it runs when the drive is back.
18 languages, ARM64
Right-to-left included. Native on Snapdragon.
Ask Genie: a backup in a sentence
Describe a backup in a sentence.
S3 when you want itPro
Your own bucket, in your own account.
Six things to know before you switch.
No job import
GBM 9 job files don’t convert. Recreate them, or ask Genie.
Old sets, old app
Keep GBM 9 to read its own backups.
No system image
Files and folders here. Bare-metal is Server.
New keys
GBM 9 and BigMind Desktop keys don’t work.
No discs or FTP
Disks, USB drives, NAS and S3-compatible storage.
No plug-ins
Smart items cover Outlook, browsers and common apps.
Moving over, safely.
Nothing touches your GBM 9 backups.
- 1
Install alongside
They don’t interfere.
- 2
Recreate your jobs
In the wizard, or tell Genie.
- 3
Run and verify
The report shows every file checked.
- 4
Retire GBM 9
When you are ready, or keep it.
Need the old app again to open old backups? Your old key still works with it: GBM 9 Home, Pro, Server; Genie Timeline 10 Home, Pro, Server.