Bringing up an older thread -

My need is to back up a 100mb laptop hard drive.

I just purchased an external drive (WD Passport), but the included software doesn't seem to offer a quick and easy way to make a full image backup - only to set up folders to be synchronized.

Because this is a personal, not business, machine, my only real interest is to be able to do full image backups, in order to be able to restore onto a replacement HDD in case the laptop HDD has a catastrophic failure. I would envision keeping three full images (overwriting the oldest when a new image is taken, etc).

Is Acronis the best tool for this kind of basic protection, or ar there alternatives?