Isync and backing up hard drives?

I'm looking for the best way to regularly back up my hard drives incase of a catastrophic failure and if my house is burning down and “I can only grab one thing” type situation. Right now I’m looking at a terabyte fw 800 drive. Can isync back up my data or do I need a specific program and if so what?
thanks

Many backup programs let you select a source and destination drive and then select which files/folders you want to backup. But I'm only aware of one that can let you create a backup set that will include more than one drive as the source. ChronoSync, lets you designate a single source/destination backup like most programs but then it has a container that makes it possible to group several backup sets into one. This would let you back up multiple drives to a single destination. Other programs may have the same feature but ChronoSync is the only one I know of.

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