Backing up a Mac - Retrospect?

[FirebarUK]

Hi,

I'm after a way to back up the entire of my Mac, I just bought a WD MyBook Pro as I needed an external disk and it came with retrospect.
Is retrospect any good? Easy to restore if the entire HD were to die for example?

Things I <need> backing up - iCal, couple of certain folders and Address Book.

Is there a better free alternative?

I currently have a cron job - but just noticed it doesn't wake the mac from hibernate

 

[FirebarUK]

Thanks, I'll look into both of those.

Does SuperDuper support compression?

 

[FirebarUK]

Thanks guys, will give them both a go.
Just backed up using Superduper and it seemed like a good'un