Hard Drive Backup - Advice Please

[jupitersmoon]

A special thanks goes out to all the people in the know, if it wasn't for you i'd have given up before I started.

 

After a month of Installing, Partitioning, Drivers, Kexts, Bios Downgrades & frustration, I finally have a sweet Quad boot system (Linux-Backtrack2 Distro, Vista Ultimate, XP Pro, Mac OSX 10.4.10-Koolkal) using lilo boot loader, I really need to do a backup of my drive. I have a spare 160gb sata.

I'm extremly familiar with the many windows based Apps (Ghost, Paragon, NTI etc). But I'm concerned that they won't backup the HFS or ex2fs partitions. The only way I can find out is to try, and if it doesn't work I'm back to square one, so I'm not doing that.

 

Has anyone had any luck or experience backing up their whole multi boot HD???

 

My installation is on a Notebook with a 2.5inch sata HD. I have 2.5 sata to usb cable to back up to my desktop PC.

Unfortunatly my spare 160gb is 3.5 inch so its not like I can clone it over and try to boot from it.

 

Model: Uniwill/ECS X72IA Notebook

 

Processor: Core Duo T5200

 

Graphics: ATI Mobility X1600 (Working at 1400X900 With Full Support)

 

Audio: ALC880 (Working out of Headphone Socket Using AZAILIA Driver)

 

Hard Drive: 160gb (Quad Boot: Linux, Vista, XP & OSX 10.4.10 Koolkal)

 

Memory: 2gb 533mhz

 

Chipset: 945/ICH7

 

USB (Working at 2.0 Speed)

 

Firewire (Working)

 

Networking: MiniPCIe RT2500 (Working)

 

Marvell Youkon (Working)

 

Modem: (Not Tested)

 

[U.C.]

Ghost 9 Works well with HFS Drives. It backups and restores them perfectly.

[Danyel]

Hi U.C:

 

Thanks for the tip about Ghost 9. I'll check it out.

 

Right now, I'm only using Ghost 8.5 (2003) for MS-DOS.

 

--danyel