Nova Backup

[Broadback]

I am still considering which backup program to get. what are the opinions on Nova please?

[Simon]

I tried it and got a refund, as I found it overly complex. 

[Broadback]

Strange, the review I read said the exact opposite and thought both MacriumReflect and Acronis more complex!

[Technical Ben]

Paragon Backup has a free version you can try.
I've also used Marium Reflect free, but only for a single action, as I needed a special clone of a disk.

[Broadback]

Well Simon I should have known better than to have gainsaid you, I have just tried the fee version. My head is spinning. Simile ius not"

[Simon]

To be honest, although it may lack one or two features, Paragon is probably the most user friendly.  It has a simple user interface, with a fairly basic wizard with which to set up and schedule backups.  If you don't need advanced features, it does what it says on the tin.  The issue I had with it was that there is no system tray icon to tell you when it is performing a backup, so it is quite easy to forget and power off your PC halfway through a backup, which means that the backup would obviously fail. But if you have scheduled your backups and you know when they're taking place, that shouldn't really be a problem.