What's the closest thing to Time Machine (Mac) on Windows?

[Marcos]

For my purposes Time Machine is just perfect, I set it up for all Mac using friends and never get any problems.

BUT, every now and then I get asked if there is Time Machine for Windows.

I'd love to find something to whole-heartedly recommend that won't cause them any grief and is super slick to set up but I've never found something that really does it.

What is the best "*Complete* backup for Non-techies" on Windows? Does it even exist?

 

[Marcos]

Interesting, so they've improved it quite a bit? Sounds good

What about, the recovery process? Is that straight forward? And then the big question, can you recover one fo these backups to a different system? E.g a laptop's backup recovered to a Desktop tower?



EDIT: Ohhhh...wait a second, you guys aren't talking about Windows 8 are you? I've vowed to never touch it

 

[Marcos]

This looks like what you're after..


http://www.horizondatasys.com/en/products_and_solutions.aspx?ProductId=1

I think this is the closest thing. I don't know how much I trust that it will actually do what they claim. That's another story.