I invested a lot of time this week (after a serious crash) to find a prog that could easy and reliably make a backup of my hard disk and at the same time provide me with a bootable clone in case thing really go bad.
I have tried, without success:
Personal Backup (Intego)
Carbon Copy Cloner
Synk
but no one could beat my last try: SuperDuper!
Cezanne
The Netherlands
(not paid by SuperDuper, just a happy user!)