Actually, I do not have time for a recession, but this software has already cost me so much time in my life that no longer depends on the half hour. I am this year 10-year-old users of this software. With 9.0. 49,95 for I have begun. In a lot of software under MS-Windows to get to such a backup solution not around really, do not want to put his system every few weeks back you. The knowledge I had in 2005 - worked with Norton Ghost - and I had the time as far as I know still no alternative technique to mirror the system in operation in handy. I was accurate and would not tolerate any failure in the system. At the first blue screen just put the system on a stand in front of the problem and you could build a flawless system. That was awesome because we did not have to boot into a different system and you could keep the root Image currently continuously and with very little effort with incremental backups. This worked well at all times fairly reliable and good compression compared to other archiving programs amazingly fast. Then as now, the software could be very user-friendly and intuitive - even for inexperienced users - the surface is actually clearly, without jargon and even well designed. ... If it would work reliably. Just as it does, it creates a more problems than it solves it. With long experience PC and also long-True Image-experience it is the lesser evil, if you need the functions of such software. Besides, I'm used to fiddle about for so long, and to spend in web forums that you somehow get everything back up and running. One of my most common problems was that you quickly booted the system crash the rescue CD and thought in 10min, the system would run around again, but then came the error message, the image "was damaged" and so worthless and you had to re-set the system. Despite no experience in software development: Can the important requirement of integrity of sensitive data is not like anywhere else in optical data carriers or packers by restoring data. A big problem in my opinion is that the software on small, little-used systems works perfectly, but swallowed, once she has to act on a system many disks with much data and many backups. It's also always been in trying the program filename supplement automatically typical that you had a very long time, sometimes several minutes to wait after entering the first letter until the software has been Processed at the touch of a button on the keyboard. Apparently - for whatever - the entire directory structure is read and checked for anything - even on very perfomanten systems. In weak systems that often had to freeze the system of impact. The 2014er Version, which I use at present, has a lot of good ideas, and the first test she also really fun. The fun goes just pretty soon. I just despair of the software to move to first to get into the program interface. Even hours of waiting does not help. Currently it seems to miss images that I have archived on Blurays. But I expect a software quite a bit of flexibility. Neither backup nor recovery are currently - except of course with Boot Disk - possible. I was sure that would solve the problem after reinstalling and move all the old archives on an external hard drive. But no, the program still hangs at startup on irretrievably. I hope that I will soon find a solution ... Actually, it is business as usual, so it goes in principle for 10 years. Something does not work always. I now do not state the patience the typical error of each version. The program works simply terribly unreliable and that is in such a sensitive task more than annoying. Therefore, I can NOT recommend inexperienced user this software here - unless it changes something, because the manufacturer times invested all programming work in a reliable program than ever in any functions that would in fact be great if they and especially the basic function reliably would work. Hope dies last.