Windows Backup program?

Jerome Fine replies: I am not sure how cheap GHOST is for Windows 98, BUT I have found that it satisfies almost ALL of my requirements. While you MUST execute GHOST (as a backup or restore) under DOS mode, I am able to perform a backup of a 2 GBytes of file space into a compressed 800 MByte image file in about 5 minutes with an 750 MHz Pentium III system - although I do have a 100 UDMA controller for my 3 * 40 GByte hard drives - and I backup from the C: drive to the E: drive while placing the CRC file on the D: drive. After that is done, I make a second copy of each file so that both the D: and E: drives have the same pair of files. Once a month I DELETE the previous files for that month and after 4 months, I copy 4 backup files to a DVD for "permanent" storage. If you have the companion GHOST Explorer, then you are also able to inspect the individual directories and retrieve individual files from the *.GHO files. I have been doing this for about 3 years now and it seems to work quite well. Spending 5 minutes at the end of each day seems quite reasonable. If you have any other questions, .... Does anyone else use GHOST and how does it seem to be working? Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.