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I have seen some Backup Questions around. But they are not quite what I am looking for.

I would like to have a back up of my entire hard drive (to an external drive). I would like it to be the kind that has a base backup then just backs up the changes since the last backup.

I would like it to be able to have a fully restorable image of my hard drive (not just key files).

Lastly I would like it to be free (or super cheap). (The above requirements are important, but I will have to drop them if they up the price as my boss will not pay for them.)

I have a Solid State Hard Drive 250 GB backing up to a 1TB external hard drive using Windows XP.

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EASEUS Todo Backup, supporting Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, is potent free backup software providing system backup & restore, hard disk or partition backup & restore, disk clone to protect your system and disk. It can back up whole PC, including the operating system plus your data, applications, settings and everything!

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I love 2 solutions each has a particular advantage. Karenware's Replicator is the tool that I have had running on every office machine (about 10) for about the last 10 years for automated, unattended, incremental backups. I don't however use it for a whole disk, though don't see that it would be a problem, just expect it to take a while, and running in off hours would surely be a plus.

Another one I like to set up on an external drive, then configure it, and teach a user to go to the directory and run it is Toucan Portable. It has plenty of other features but that's the way I use it.

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This is more a 'backup disaster recovery solution' than simply a 'backup tool'.

Search the web for 'incremental bdr' for a bunch of companies offering this exact functionality. We have large clients using the same solution and it works flawlessly. Unfortunately, I doubt that you will find anything close to free.

StorageCraft sell a product called ShadowProtect Desktop Edition which does the job. There is a good review of a slightly older version here which gives you a basic explanation on how it works.

$80 is 'super cheap' to me for a backup disaster recovery solution, but I guess I'm not the one you'll need to convince :-)

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I highly recommend DriveImage XML. It makes images of your drive(s) and even has options to compress your image...

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