A huge thank you to everybody who contributed to my part of the Windows XP backup thread. A great deal of time and effort went into clarifying things for me, and I am very grateful indeed.
I now have Cobian so will have to sit down and think about the precise strategy. I’ve certainly got the hardware resources to secure stuff (but that’s what I thought I had before :-((
Now that I understand the implications of the difference between imaging and backing up I will indeed be splitting off the data from the system backup!
Once again, thanks to everybody :-)))
Richard