Acronis True Image is Very good software but..
Here my alternative for the one that have a what we call a family network at home:
If you don't want to poor money for the Ultimate Version and have a old pc that is perfectly working other than the need to make the original HD bigger you could always set aside the money to get Windows Home Server and from there having the option to restore from bear metal to running state for up to 10 PC in your family network and in supplement incremental backup on a daily basis every night and a media repository/center and stopping to buy supplement HD for each PC that you feel the need to in addition you could get very interesting rebate from Software manufacturer like Anti-Virus, defragmenters, other and now a community that live and thrive around that new OS with many add on also.
It seem to be a good alternative to individual backup pc, for example I just added a 1TB HD drive enclosure to my home server in less than a min, time to log in and install it and voila and got file duplication on for important file, like family album etc. So for me that Recovery disk will make a great addition to my arsenal of tool to maintain a healthy PC.
Thank you for the sharing of that great tip.
