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What is the best disk imaging software for small business use

Hi Experts,

Which disk imaging software is best for a small office (5 computers)?

I have used "True Image" in the past and really liked it but the GUI was a little nerdy and non intuitive. Sort of a good tool for geeks. I have not used it in a few years so it may be greatly improved.

I used "true image" in the past to completely restore my disk to a new hdd after a hard disk failure. It was great: 3 hours after I got the new drive, I was up and running like nothing changed.

This time I got lazy and cheap and just backed up with Mozy but lost all my installed software (I had every single version of Visual Studio installed as well as Eclipse and other tools) I am at 60 hours of rebuilding and still not restored.
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That's a very subjective question.
For me, I use EaseUS Todo Backup. It's free for home use, paid for commercial use.
Easy to use and I've never had a problem restoring images.
It will image a system drive from within the OS.
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And, the answer no one wants to acknowledge.  Assuming Windows, Windows backup to an external USB drive is effective and free.
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Larry wrote :"And, the answer no one wants to acknowledge.  Assuming Windows, Windows backup to an external USB drive is effective and free."

Larry, will the windows backup actually image my HDD so that if I have an HDD crash I simply restore the backed up image to a new HDD and be back where I was withl all installed software, etc.
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The answer is yes if the drive is of the same or bigger size. If your server crashes and you need to restore it to dissimilar hardware then it is hard.
You cannot have more backup versions with windows server backup. It will do first full and all the rest incremental.
Windows Server Backup has its pros and cons.
Paragon is by far the best.