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Fourteen
Aug 15, 2002

No, no, no you imbecile! That's not talc, that's paprika!
For image-based Windows backups, I've been using ShadowProtect Desktop for a few years, and so far it's worked great. It's not the cheapest, but it's better than Acronis (IMHO).

http://www.shadowprotect.com/backup-software/shadowprotect-desktop

I schedule a weekly image of my Windows drive using ShadowProtect, along with using SyncBackSE to backup other random things on other internal drives (my MP3 collection, etc). All of that goes on an external USB drive. I have 2 of those drives, and I just swap one for the other every 3 weeks or so at my parents' house. I also use CrashPlan for My Documents and small-ish files (I think I've got maybe 200GB in CrashPlan), and for the large files (movie collection, for instance) I use SyncBack to back that up to my NAS.

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Fourteen
Aug 15, 2002

No, no, no you imbecile! That's not talc, that's paprika!

The Gunslinger posted:

Have you tested restoration? I can find tons of image based backup stuff for Windows that will make an image, very few that will actually restore that image successfully without one problem or another.

Not yet, haven't tested that out yet, although I should.

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