A lot of people use Symantec’s Ghost but I’m really not a fan of the software. Have to reboot your PC into their Live OS, takes forever, and doesn’t support many drives. Well I went searching and I found Paragon Drive Backup.

Not only is the software cheap($30 for the personal edition at time of writing), its FAST(backed up 25gb of data from my main drive to an aux drive in around 30 minutes, while compressing it to < 20gb), it runs within Windows(installs a driver of some sort to allow it to open protected files).

And, unlike Ghost, it supports any drive your OS does because it runs within Windows and uses Windows drivers.

Not only does it support Windows file systems(NTFS, FAT32, and FAT16), but also Linux file systems(Ext2, Ext3, and ReiserFS at time of writing).

You can do incremental backups(called differential backups), scheduled backups, 1-button drive copies, bootable recovery disks, and all number of things.

Check it out at Paragon’s Website