With online services easier to use and cheaper than ever, there’s now no excuse not to back up your files, says Stuart Andrews.

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Nero's backup solution combines simplicity with more advanced features, though rival products offer more for less

Now a true all-in-one package thanks to file and folder backup, but it can’t match Acronis for value.

Disk-imaging software can be put to many varied uses, and products like Drive Image prove particularly useful in our labs when upgrading to a new hard disk or for swiftly refreshing a test system.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

When Symantecs Norton Ghost 2002 was released last year, it offered few improvements, with support for Windows XP the only significant addition. Not so with Drive Image 2002.

Combines simplicity with more advanced backup features, but rival products offer more for less.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Another minor revision, but the addition of privacy functions further extends its impressively wide focus

Without support for differential backups and with a light feature set, Norton Ghost feels cheap, nasty and dated.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

For those who don’t own version 9, a few improvements should put this at the top of your shopping list.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

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