Online partition backup tool for 2008R2

[allen2]

I'm looking for something like Acronis true image or Symantec backup exec system recovery but free. I already tried the integrated tool from Microsoft (wbadmin) but it doesn't allow compression.

The goal is to replicate/backup a windows 2008R2 (encrypted with bitlocker but of course without tpm) as a virtual machine or anything that has to be to be easy as it can to be restored as a virtual machine. The destination will be a local drive and then it will be sent over the wan to a sftp server. Of course the tool need to perform its job online as i can't shutdown it for backups.

Any suggestion will be welcome.

Edited March 30, 2011 by allen2