LOL, just use macrium reflect.. it has all the same major features of acronis that you'd need in the free version..
Now, this works best for your OS drive..
For MEDIA (movies/images/music) backup.. It's actually easier to just put them all on a different networked PC and spin down the drives to preserve long term usefulness..
Obviously, ur gonna need Gigabit backbone in ur house for this to work,
But for the OS drive only, macrium reflect is more than enuff..