Backup Software?

[Blugamer44]

I'm looking for a good backup software (preferably free) for doing complete backups of my netbook incase of hard drive failure. I bought a 320GB Seagate Freeagent portable hard drive, but now i need backup software. any recommendations?

[jaymz462]

Well, it's not free, but I use a service called Backblaze.  It's $50/year for unlimited space.  It backs up your files to the cloud, which I'd recommend over a local backup- your external drive might die, but the cloud stuff will always be there.

Backblaze saved me when my music hard drive died.  I was able to recover all my music in just a few hours.

[bhm42004]

I thought that Windows had a back-up utility that can backup your files to cd. Pack in my pc tech days, i would 'ghost' my harddrive onto a spare one.

[Blugamer44]

Unfortunately jaymz462, my upload speed is about 15 kilobytes per second, soooo with 90gb of data, it'll only take about 12 straight days to back up my computer. Also CDs and DVDs wont work to well either. i tired xp's built in backup feature, takes way too long to back up.

[oldbuddy]

I'm looking for a good backup software (preferably free) for doing complete backups of my netbook incase of hard drive failure. I bought a 320GB Seagate Freeagent portable hard drive, but now i need backup software. any recommendations?

Look at this: http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

[southernhorizons]

I use Fbackup, which is free and a simple program to use. You can schedule it to make regular backuups, or do a manual backup whenever you want. The only thing I don't like is that when you delete files, it doesn't delete the ones on the backup drive. It adds files fine.

[Blugamer44]

Thank you everyone for the advice, I will look into some of the software you guys mentioned.