Backup Strategy for Mixed Systems

[OneWhiteDuck]

Thanks in advance

I need a new backup strategy for my two machines:
One machine all WinXP
Second machine: Win7 on one hdd; Ubuntu on second hdd

Backup target drives:
Two new WD Caviar drives in vented external enclosure with fan (no RAID)

1) How do I format the target drives to accept Clonezilla images of all three OS's?

2) How do I format the drives to accept incremental data backups from all three OS's done between scheduled imaging?


Second machine (Win7 & Ubuntu) is not yet running, still in delivery box.

Thanks for your help.

[nujinini]

Hi!

Allow me to give it a shot

If I were to copy the whole disk/system to a new drive, I would be doing the ff:

1) Make sure that the new HD is as big as the old one.
2) Attach the external enclosure with the new HD in it and wait for the machine to read.
3) As root execute # fdisk -l, or $sudo fdisk -l (-l is small L) so as to get the new HD's proper ID. Most probably it would be /dev/sdb
4) Then execute as root

 # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

or

$ sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

/dev/sda being your source HD.

Hope this helps