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I need help finding a software solution for backing up my system

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The attached photo should tell all (almost).

I have a very small business and I am looking for input on backing up a multi-boot system that I built. I lost some data a couple of years back and this was the system I built to "help" it from happening again. I do not know that much about computers. The multi-boot thing was kind of an experiment for fun.

1. I have several removable hdd bays that can be used for backing up my system.
2. I also have LOTS of hdd's for backing up my system.
3. Drive O is mirrored, the type that uses 2 hdd's that both get written to at the same time (RAID 1?).
4. Drive O is almost the only thing that I NEVER want to lose information on.
5. It would be a big bonus to back up the operating systems on C,D,E,G,H,I,K,L and M
6. It would also be a big bonus to be able to restore an image to a different partion size (larger or smaller).
7. It would also be a big bonus to have the ability to go back in history to recover changed files.

Key to photo below
OS=Operating system
Win 7=Windows 7 (64bit)
XP=Windows XP (64 bit)
VM=Virtual Memory
Drives G,H,I,K,L and M are all Windows 7 (64 bit)

Rob L.

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YOu best bet is to consult the user guide

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/docs/

and try out ati2011, which you can do for free.

ATi will let you restore a partiton to a target that is a diff size, provided that the target is big enough to hold the image (basically the amount of bytes that were used onthe source partition.

I've used ATI with RAID for years, but that doesn't guarantee that it will work with every set-up.

ati can back-up a system disk/partiton, even when it is in use -- this incudles the system files and all.

If you make backups over time and save them, you can go back and restore from any of the various versions you have saved.