What is the best PC backup software?
 

I want to be prepared in case my hard drive completely dies, so I want to backup all the data on my laptop.

Got any software reccomendations?

drive image 7

I really like Acronis True Image 9.0.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/

Got PC Magazines award for Editors best pick also last year and a lot of others too.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...ge/awards.html

:thumbsup

use two different ones just to be safe

we've been using norton ghost for years.

I like that software as well..had to use it once

Here's a question: If my hardrive is currently filled with 24GB of data, and I create an image backup using some backup software, how big will the image file the software creates be? Will the image also be 24GB?

I can't agree more, acronis rocks :thumbsup

i did a ghost of my hard drive not long ago... trouble is, how do you know it has worked until its too late? puzzler :P

buying a new computer and putting the other one in remote storage.

better yet,

distribute files that must be backed up onto p2p. that is the best why to preserve data

*edit* in theory

Depends on what kind of data you have on your drive, but between 12GB-24GB.

get a RAID drive? if not, get an external hard drive...

I was wondering that too. What if you go to do the recover process and it just returns some error - file corrupted or something?

Norton Ghost is the shit