Can I back-up several Drives to one, massive HDD?

[beany_bot]

Wondering if I can I back-up several Drives (3) to one, massive HDD?
And back them up in such a way that they are recoverable as actual, bootable drives? Like save them as an image or something?

Thanks.

 

[DrBombcrater]

Yes, just use a backup program that supports backup to image files. Acronis is the one that springs to mind, but there are plenty of others.

 

[beany_bot]

Yes, just use a backup program that supports backup to image files. Acronis is the one that springs to mind, but there are plenty of others.

Cool, will I also be able to back-up the drive im currently using? i.e. the drive with the operating system im on.

 

[hp7909]

Acronis is the one that springs to mind, but there are plenty of others.

+1 for Acronis True Image. Although its not free

 

[KIA]

Cool, will I also be able to back-up the drive im currently using? i.e. the drive with the operating system im on.

Yes. I'm a big fan of Macrium Reflect.

 

[bledd]

Yes, Macrium Reflect. Awesome software

 

[Simon42]

I've used many disk imaging backup applications over the years and Macrium Reflect is excellent and my preference by far (Acronis was the worse).

These type of programs do block copies and incremental backups so the space required is less than the disk size despite being able to do a full restore. Using incremental backups gives me the capability to restore to any day that a PC was started on for at least three months.

 

[mikeo]

Used Acronis True Image for years. Great program. Works a treat. Saved my bacon more than once. More options than you can shake a stick at.