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I’ve had good success with Acronis.

I've heard this too but almost had a disaster this weekend with Acronis.

I installed the latest trial version of their software on my Windows Vista x64 machine (with Raid1) and started a disk backup (ghost). After about 30 minutes it appeared to have locked up - the progress bar had not moved in that period. Then my machine locked up where the only way to stop it was a hard reboot.

Then the fun began, I could boot up but the machine was basically unresponsive so I tried to uninstall Acronis. It hung for at least 20 minutes trying to prepare for the uninstall. After another reboot I had to take a trip through the Windows Repair procedure at boot time because of a boot problem that was detected. After 45 minutes of disk repair I was able to reboot and uninstall Acronis.

Luckily I didn't lose any data (that would have been ironic, no?) and only ended up wasting about 3 hours in the process.

Sorry to hear of your experiance. I use it on PCs that do not have much downtime. One advantage to Acronis is it can backup a running system, no need to shut down all processes to do a backup.