Backing up your PC, your work, your school papers, pictures, videos and game saves is something often neglected. You never know when that flash drive or hard drive is going to fail you. No matter how many people remind you to back things up the message never seems to get across. So what tools help you automate this

1. Mozy
The free version of Mozy is very nice, however, he limitation of the free version is 2 gigs. So I'd recommend only the most crucial documents get backed up. Save the MP3 collection for another tool, or shell out the extra cash to have Mozy cover it for you.

2. ADrive
I am a big fan of Adrive. Popping in at 50 gigs, it will allow you to back up nearly anything you can throw at it. The automatation aspect isn't quite as clean as Mozy but so far I am a big fan of what its doing for me.

3. DriveImage XML
Here is where I wanted to tie it all together. What if you could back up your entire PC right now or even just partition of your harddrive? This tool gives you that ability. I've reformatted my PC one too many times to know its a difficult task to track down all of the drivers and cd's to get your pc the way you want it after a distaster or a clean install.

DriveImage XML will do that for you. So the real trick is save off your disc image and then upload it to ADrive. Then anytime you do a major change to your pc save a new image and upload it again. I'll add a step by step if requested.