Best Program/Way for Full Back Up

[Caveman]

A friend has a small wireless Home Network and is trying to BU his computers across the network to an external drive that he can store in a safe deposit box. He wants the "full image" of his other computers (programs, data files, etc) such that if he has a crash, he can just do a full dump back to his computers and not have to reload drivers, programs, etc...

Norton Ghost seems like the right program. Any others out there?

How about the Windows XP Home BU utility? Does this do what Ghost does or does it just let someone BU data files in a "nice, neat" way?

 

[Schadenfroh]

I say, norton Ghost

 

[Homerboy]

screw norton.
Acronis TrueImage destroys it
Theres a billion threads on this already
Acronis = King

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
screw norton.
Acronis TrueImage destroys it
Theres a billion threads on this already
Acronis = King

<-- has recently been converted to True Image. I've only used older version of Ghost DOS, but I can say, I really like the interface and use of True Image.

You can't make a true backup "image" of the operating system and programs using the XP backup program. You'll need a imaging program like Ghost or TI if you want to backup OS files and be able to restore them.

Otherwise, for basic data backup (documents, MP3s, downloaded files, etc.), then you could use the XP backup program.

 

[oog]

why can't you do a full backup with ntbackup and make sure to include the automated system restore? imaging software will definitely do the trick, but for this purpose, i would think that a backup would also work.