Acronis can be used to take a complete image of your hard disk and put it on an external hard disk or NAS drive.

This will help to protect your operating system from a hard disk failure.

Whilst this protects your entire OS and not your data its not really suitable for laptops as backing up to a NAS drive over Wifi wouldn't really work.

Good for desktops but you should use Carbonite in the first instance.

 

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