Is the macrium free version good enough or should I get the home version?  Which do you use?  If I bought the home version, do they do some clever licensing to force you to keep buying newer versions each year?  (kind of like VMware does with Fusion.. it's so annoying).

I installed the Free version.  Making the recovery media now (Windows PE).

Do you boot Windows PE then do the backup, or do you use the live cloning?  Only thing I fear about live cloning is that malware could access the backup drive and mess with the backup images.. thinking it's best to clone by booting the recovery media.