It depends on what kind of backup you want to do. If you want to backup the data on your hard drive so that it can be reinstalled if your primary drive fails, Acronis True Image will do that, and do it very well. If you want to simply create an "image" of a hard drive and make duplicate copies of it on other hard drives, True Image is not what you're looking for.
Acronis True Image is a data backup software program, allowing you to create a full system backup followed by periodic incremental backups. A nice feature is that you can designate the destination backup storage area as a "secure zone", which is essentially a hidden partition or drive, which reduces the chance that either the operating system, an application program, or a person sitting at the keyboard can gain access to it and delete its contents or reformat it. This "secure zone" can be on a separate partition on the same hard drive, on a separate internal hard drive, or on an external hard drive.
The latest version of Norton Ghost has moved into the same arena: data backup and restoration. Earlier versions of Ghost did what I think you're wanting: creating copies of partitions/drives and duplicating them on other partitition/drives. I've got an old version of Ghost that does just this, but I don't recall what version it is. (It's several years old, like from the 2002-2003 timeframe.)
I'll check it out when I get home and post that information here then.
But then, I've never used it with a RAID setup either. (Though the existence of a RAID setup should be transparent to an application program that thinks it's simply writing to a hard drive. The RAID controller should intercept the data and stripe and/or mirror the data on the multiple drives.)
Rich (in Minn.)
