Backup software

Anyone using Acronis True Image? I've been using CrashPlan with a private server, but it doesn't do full system backup. Thinking about buying a 3 machine license for True Image ($80 right now). On paper it looks great, it seems to do everything that any other backup system I've ever seen, including Apple Time Machine, does, then some. Unless someone has huge warnings about it, I'll probably give the 30 day trial a try.
The reviews are good. As expected, there are really only two contenders, this and Norton Ghost, and as I would expect, the Norton offering sucks. Does anything from Norton not suck these days? They must have a vice president in charge of making sure they don't do more than barely enough.
At home I'd have it create backups to the NAS box. For the kid's laptop at college, an external hard drive.
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