I know how that goes. The Powers That Be just fired most of our IT department and hired an outside firm which promptly hired all the firees back at lower salary on one year contracts (except for the one who got real jobs somewhere else). You can imagine how that's going.
I use Acronis. Mostly with success. I've had it give me troubles getting started but when it copied it always worked. I haven't asked it to do much - back up a PC and / or server in anticipation of a drive crash on the machine. Right now I'm in the process of moving from an Xp desktop to a Win10 laptop. The laptop is my 1st experience with 10 so the migration is a little bumpy. Acronis does have a validate function that basically does a file by file check for duplicity on a previous backup. It takes nearly as long as the backup but I've never had an Acronis restore fail. A 300 gig backup takes about 2 1/2 hours. A validate takes about 1 3/4. There. Now I jinxed myself. I gotta go now and sacrifice a chicken.
Steve
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