Microsoft Backup is a very outdated program. You should consider a more
modern alternative, like an inexpensive second hard drive and a hard drive
imaging program like Ghost, DriveImage or Image from
http://www.bootitng.com/ instead.

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> I want to thank Richard Harper for the answer to my
> question. I spent a long time trying to figure out a way
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> against harddrive failure. If the hard drive fails,
> wouldn't the backup also be useless?