Save Your Data With One of These Top Backup Programs

We test five new apps that make saving--and restoring--your vital data a lot easier than tools you've tried in the past.

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Prices from $70.00 License: Trial

This comprehensive backup solution is a friendly as it gets, and offers file-base backup, imaging and CDP.

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Prices from $50.00 License: Trial

The most complete backup solution on the market offers both file-based backup and imaging, and is a bargain to boot.

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Prices from $40.00 License: Trial

This backup utility has a marvelous interface and just about everything else--except the ability to back up open files.

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Prices from $40.00 License: Trial

With the ability to back up and restore files as well as partitions, this utility is now encroaching on Acronis True Image's turf

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Prices from $129 License: Trial

The most powerful, filed-based backup program you can buy, but it's expensive and hard to learn.

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