What is a Good Free Backup Software

I just bought an 80Gig external USB seagate to back up my labtop. What do you guys suggest as far as backup software. I would like to make an image of my hard drive, as well as plugging in my hard drive once a month and have it auto back up any new files i have created or modified. That way i have the image incase i want to boot from it, and i have all my documents auto updating when i plug my hard drive in. What do you guys suggest.. Anything Free??
Smaer

 

All versions of Windows include backup programs—but they do not always install themselves by default (XP Home, for example).

To install the Windows backup program: Put the original installation disk in your CD drive and navigate to the folder called /Valueadd/msft/ntbackup.

You will see a file entitled ntbackup.msi. Double-click this file and it will install the free backup program. The free backup program will then appear in the Systems Tools folder (click Start, All Programs, Accessories, Systems Tools, Backup). You can now put (backup) the data on another computer, another hard drive, or a CD.

SyncBack is a really good program. Below is a link to a Freeware site that you can download it.
here the link where you can download it.

frankly speaking there are a lot of free backup sollutions, but all of them have a greate minus - they don't have support, so if something goes wrong it's hard to find out what causes it

to my mind you shouldn't save money on such products, coz they deal with you data and as for me i must be sure that everything would be ok, so i recomend you to use True Image from acronis, it's a very good prog, i've already use it for 3 years and never had unresolvable problems.

so it up to you what to choose Good luck.