Well guys

Thanks for your input, please note that I have been doing some research and concluded the following:

Sleepless, you said:I have too but Acronis and Ghost are aimed at the same market area, i.e. small to medium sized offices or sophisticated networked homes, and so are far too "full-featured" for my basic needs. And, quite frankly, too much to learn about to get to what I actually want to do, which is to create (and restore from) DVD backup images.

LOTR, you said:I have tried this before, when I had Norton Ghost v14.0, and felt that it was a bit pointless, I ended up deleting the backups and using the space for other data. Also, externals have a habit of failing (I am now staring at my partially dead Lacie 250GB and the space left by my Gericom 400GB).

So you see, I am not keen on using externals.

I will continue looking for other software solutions.


UK Bob