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Newegg has Acronis True Image Home 2012 (TI-15-DV-RT-W-EN) for $20 - $15 rebate [Exp 5/16] = $5 with free shipping. Copy your entire PC, including the operating system, synchronize files and works with 2TB+ drives.
$5
as big as backups tend to get, you are better off just buying another HDD and backing up your data.
^ Huh? Normally you'd want to backup to another HDD anyway, in case you have a HDD failure.
If you get another HDD you can back up the entire HDD as easily, and that way it's much faster to get a system up and running again if there were a reformat due to malware or a HDD failure, and Acronis also has an incremental backup feature so if you want to, subsequent backups don't take up as much space.
However, some people say the current version is buggier than in the past, that version 10 was the best it ever was. Maybe they've worked out the bugs in v12 by now.
Isn't it easier to use the Windows "system image" and "windows backup" that is integrated into the OS?
^ What about something to support the millions of XP boxes still out there?
You can use ReDo Backup. It is free. Here is a link: http://redobackup.org/
Check it out. No bloat ware. Nothing gets installed on your hard drive, just a bootable disk.
^ but that means there's system downtime and it's an attended backup. With Trueimage you can automate it and the machine does it all by itself to a network share (or 2nd HDD), or does this version not allow that?
Acronis has saved my ass many times.