am new here. but here goes.

what i want to do seems simple but finding real world examples and recommendations is difficult. here is what i want to do:

1. backup my entire PC to a portable drive. system, data, everything.
2. repeat the backup, imcremental or full, about every other week.
3. store portable drive in secure area.

in the event of a failure of my hard drive (again, sheesh!) i want to boot the
system from my saved portable drive, restore entire system to a newly installed
hard drive and then boot from the new drive there after.

i am not talking about a lot of data - system or user. maybe 10-12 GBs max.

anyone know of a good solution to this problem? this is for my home PC used
mostly by the kids and my significant other. at work i've got other, much larger
problems but this one i don't have time to do days of research.

tnx.