spec me a good backup software?

[Colbaker]

Thats not Acronis true image as i have had 2 backups of hard drives with this software and neither of them have worked when needed to recover said drives, so now i am now looking for a good backup software that will backup a whole drive and compress it into a backup archive file.

Thanks lads

 

[Colbaker]

Thanks for the reply but to be hounest im looking for a user friendly windows based program.

The issue i had with acronis is that I did a full backup of the main boot drive then formated to beta test windows 7, when i recovered the install back it would not boot into vista (i tried many fixes in windows recovery console), then i did a full fresh reinstall of the system which i then backed up with true image only to find out after recovering this backup i had the exact same issue with vista 64 not booting.

I really want a no fuss stable backup software that i can rely on to actually recover fully.