MM>    Hello everybody!

 MM> I am wondering what would be the best backup software to
 MM> use for my pc?

  I have Norton Ghost, both an old version, 2003 vintage and a
  newer version. The 2003 version only works from a dos prompt,
  and that means dos, not a dos prompt in windows. OTOH, it will
  run from dos disks using Win 98 dos, which is readily
  available. It doesn't recognize sata drives, but it does
  everything else exceptionally well, including reading HD that
  can't be read by windows or dos directly.

 The later version, Ghost32, is a 32 bit version that works from
 windows. It won't back up the partition I boot from, but does
 all the rest quite well. It will back up Sata disks.

 Winimage does back up hard drives, in the paid professional
 version. It's so good I am going to upgrade to the pro version,
 but I am experimenting with systems which is what I find it
 great at. Don't know how good it would be as a regular backup
 source, though it can do a self installing backup so you can put
 the backup directly to the disk without the original program to
 boot up. OTOH, it makes images, not partial backups.

 I also use Macrium Reflect, which has the advantage of being
 free, and does it all.

 There is also Clonezilla, which is also free, and it is a linux
 based clone of Ghost, which can boot and run from a flash drive.
 I have it but have never used it.

 I just backup the entire HD to an image. Later copies of Ghost
 do incremental backup, so you do one then as it goes it just
 backs up the changes.

 If I just want to back up subdirectories or versions of files,
 or such I use Ztree and do them by type or directory. All my
 Fido subdirectory, or all my .jpg files, etc.

 All the ones I tried worked well.

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