Ghost is invaluable when it comes to reloading crashed drives.  I back up my C drive every week on Sunday morning and do an incremental on Wednesday morning.  My D drive, where all my 3d apps sit is backed up every Monday morning with an incremental on Thurs morning.  Luckily all my content is out in external runtimes but they get backed up incrementally every Tuesday morning.  

Like you, Fixer, I've had a couple of bad crashes this year so I'm really a bug about backing up my 3d stuff.  I've had my Ghost for 2 years now and have never regretted the purchase.  It's one of the best programs I've ever found for backing up hard drives.  I have 2 internal 250 Gig Maxtor drives, 2 internal 300 Gig Maxtor Sata drives and 2 external 250 Gig Iomega hard drives so I've got a lot of storage space.  My backups go out to the #2 external drive since it's partitioned only for the backups.  There's a partition for each of the drives that get backed up each week.

Hugz from Phoenix, USA

Victoria

Remember, sometimes the dragon wins. Correction: MOST times.