How's my luck?

After two weeks and down to my last couple of blank DVDs, I have yet to find success in imaging my hard drive. What's I'm looking is to create a bootable disc and back up my hard drive to a bunch of DVD discs. I've tried the following:

Paragon Backup & Recovery (failed twice during the image recovery phase)

Macrium Reflect (failed during the image recovery phase)

DriveImageXML (failed to recognize the actual drives)

Clonezilla (didn't use but it's hard to make up boot from DVDs)

EaseUS ToDo (didn't recognize the recovery discs when I loaded them in)

Acronius True Image (I gave up on this one from last year)

Kriever 1 click restore (click on the startup icon and it won't respond, frozen)

 

RootAccess,

You are lucky that it failed. Better now than when you have to restore the image. Use a HD to store your images and you will avoid DVD grief.

 

easy... terabyte's image for linux.

 

I agree.
Storing images on DVD is very risky.All it takes is a small scratch on one disc or other degradation for the whole backup to be rendered useless.An external HDD or usb key are far more reliable (and durable) methods of image storage.

The very fact that you've tried a number of usually reliable utilities and have failed to create and restore a usable image should serve as a warning.

If you really must use DVDs for backup,then I suggest you use the least level of compression possible.