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[Defcon9]

Back-up programs, they say everything works like a charm. Well let me say, words don't really mean Sh*t. Iomega performs a perfect 0% Well It worked when I bought it. Now Sh*t. What would you reccommend?

[amourdevin]

I use a freeware program for daily server backups over a LAN: TaskZip but it sounds like you want something more frequent than daily.

It does not sound like you want to image an entire partition or drive but for the benefit of those who might:

Norton Ghost gave me fits and has a limited list of CDR's it supports. After failing at getting it to write to the CDR, I then tried imaging one partition and writing it to a seperate one. I never did get it to work well.

I have used PowerQuest DriveImage (it's Symantec now) for years. It always worked well in DOS mode (from boot disks) for me. I had mixed results running it from Windows though.

I used Acronis True Image once with no problems. All the Acronis products have nice interfaces and were less expensive than the comparable PowerQuest (now Symantec) products the last time I looked.