That's very close to the way I do my backups as well. Although I'm no friend of Symantec, I actually prefer Ghost 10 to True Image 9. Ghost is the only Symantec software I have on my computer.

Ghost does a daily image of my C (OS and applications) and D (My Documents, except for multimedia files) drives. Once a week I make the images directly to DVD. Multimedia files have a different schedule.

Because of something I read in one of these newsgroups I have a "second line of defense" for My Documents, which is to say I use a second program (Winzip) to backup My Documents (and a little more.)

Steven

"bxf" <bill@topman.net> wrote in message news:1133788505.002721.231020@g49g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> My C partition contains only OS and installed applications, and so far
> the entire partition fits on a single DVD, when it is written by BACKUP
> applications like Acronis and Ghost, as they compress the data when
> writing to the backup device. I strongly prefer Acronis over Ghost (at
> least the 2003 version) when the target is an external device.
>
> I have a set of RW disks that I rotate, so that I always have a backup
> that goes several generations back, in case a problem takes a long time
> to manifest itself.
>