any freeware imaging with incremental backup

Does anyone know of any freeware imaging software that does incremental backup?

Thanks in advance!

 

there might be something here, they are just some bookmarks i have -
http://linuxappfinder.com/backupandrecovery/driveimaging
http://linuxappfinder.com/backupandrecovery
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
http://www.howtoforge.com/rsync_incremental_snapshot_backups
http://oreilly.com/pub/h/42
http://www.unix-tutorials.com/search.php?act=search&term=Pybackpack+-+A+user+friendly+file+backup+tool+for+Ubuntu+Linux+Desktop
http://www.unix-tutorials.com/search.php?term=imaging&act=search
http://clonezilla.org/
http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page
http://4bak.org/

i just found this for windows -
http://mutable.net/blog/archive/2006/11/13/an-intelligent-backup-system-for-windows-part-1.aspx

i've got some spare HDDs and a HDD enclosure so i should do this too, maybe if you haven't used linux much but want to try it out we can use the same thing??

agood place to find solutions is delicious.com
http://delicious.com/search?p=incremental+backup

and digg.com
http://digg.com/search?section=all&s=incremental+backup&x=0&y=0

and lifehacker.com, this search, below, on google gives some good ideas

Code:

site:[URL="http://lifehacker.com"]http://lifehacker.com[/URL] incremental backup

here's one of the things from the results -
http://lifehacker.com/software/backup/download-of-the-day-deltacopy-windows-228662.php
http://lifehacker.com/5047678/insure-your-data-with-personal-backup
http://lifehacker.com/375666/back-up-while-youre-away-with-idlebackup

i'm definitely going to try one of these, i really need to make at least one backup, i've got so much stuff i need to backup because i've used this install for almost 2 years now and i've saved stuff most days!

 

O&O Disk Image Express does that. Free!

 

(free)DriveImageXML
This will make backups, incrementals even while your using your computer.
If you know XML you can modify files in a text editor.

(paid)DriveSnapshot
Same as above -(minus) modify in text editor

(paid) Acronis True Image

Here is what some others are using.
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=217942&highlight=disk imaging

 

I was not aware DriveSnapshot was free?

 

Skinning cat's are we? Check P2K's closing sentence.

S

 

Guess I fail the "real cheapskate" test and was crediting the OP with the same.

 

Thought you'd like that.

S

 

yes but the free version cannot restore a system partition
making it pretty much useless.

 

So additional suggestion's should assume "& restore" the unspoken given?

S

 

wow, i never thought there was quite a lot! thanks guys!

iceni, i've been using ubuntu, pclinuxos and a little slacking alternately with windows. and thanks for those link. I'll check them all out...

sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm particularly looking for something to backup the system partition. It seems that only DriveImageXML is the only candidate?