Nero BackItUp & Burn is a bit of an odd product. While delivering relevant backup features, both offline and online, it falls short compared to dedicated products such as the excellent offline-based Acronis True Image 2009 and online-based Carbonite. And as a disc burning tool, it pales in comparison to Nero AG's own Nero 9 suite. The two things Nero BackItUp & Burn does have on its side are ease of use and price. If you are looking for a slimmed-down disc burn and backup package that provides plain file backup, whole-drive and partition imaging, syncing, scheduling and even automatic backup and mirroring one volume to another, Nero BackItUp & Burn is just the ticket. An added bonus is that given Nero's optical expertise with support for DVD-R/RW as well as CD-R/RW and BD-R/RE, you shouldn't have any disc compatibility problems. For advanced users looking for more control over their backups and disc burning, there are much better products. One final note: Kudos to Nero for improving its notoriously poor interface design.