Good hard drive backup program?

[DellAxim]

Well, I FINALLY have an extra hard drive exclusively for the purposes of backing up my main hard drive. I want a program that will make an image of my entire C: drive (windows XP 64 bit) and dump that on my G: drive automatically, every night. Are there any good, simple, and hopefully free programs that will do that? I want the image to be in some kind of standard format (iso?)so I'm not locked into one kind of software if I have to restore...

 

[Joe Average]

Acronis True Image.

Imaging software doesn't make "ISOs" unfortunately, that's not how they work. They all use proprietary image formats for themselves, but you typically get some way of making a bootable recovery CD as well. True Image allows "live imaging" meaning you can back up/image your system without needing to shut down - although a restore operation (if required) will.

There are several different apps out (True Image, Ghost, DriveImage XML, etc) but, for the feature set, ease of use, stability, and general reviews, nothing beats True Image.

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[Iano]

I'll second True Image. I use it and their Snap Deploy software for workstation imaging. Good software, friendly people too who are always ready to help.

 

[tgabe213]

I use Acronis True Image Home (11 or 10) for my C: backups. I use Synctoy that sync's my datadrive to a Data partition on my server.

 

[Nenu]

I use Acronis too and have found it to be the least troublesome backup util.