Windows 7 backup can do most of what you want.

The exceptions are:

- backing up WindowsXP machines
- backing up other machines across network

And to backup TO a network resource, you must have Windows 7
Professional or Ultimate.

And the backup/restore program - including scheduling - is included
for no extra charge with all versions of Windows 7 - notwithstanding
the network capabilities cited above that are included only with the
Professional and Ultimate versions.

And it works.

At 06:03 PM 2012-01-30, Dave Powell, MMfab wrote:
>Anybody have any experience?  Special loves or hates ?  I've been reading
>specs and user comments on several, but would like input from the list too.
>
>Priority is full image backups that will let me recover a whole system
>without reinstalling anything, working with enough USB drives so I can have
>a least 2 full backups of every machine, with at 1 offsite at all times.
>
>Ability to restore individual file from full image backups is nice but not
>vital.   (I have daily file backups of important files working with xcopy --
>that's good enough so I don't need new software to improve on it).
>
>Must be possible to schedule recurring jobs.
>
>Must work across a network -- copying from other PCs to external drives
>connected to my PC.  Ideally it would be controlled by my PC reaching out to
>read the other machines.  The free/cheap pgms I have seen so far work the
>other way round -- running on the machine being backed up and writing across
>the network.  I can live with that as long as I get some kind of
>notification of success or failure to my machine (perhaps an email), and my
>share passwords are not visible on the other machines.
>
>Must work with XP and Windows 7  (backing up from XP 7 & Win-7 to Win-7).
>
>Must work !  (can't pretend to work and flake out on me when I need it).
>
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