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How to backup an entire hard drive with multiple OS installed?

Dear all,

I want to backup an entire hard-drive with multiple partitions with multiple OS installed. Corrently there are a Service partition(FAT32), a Window Vista (2 ntfs partitions) and a Linux (an ext3 and a swap partition) on the hard drive. The boot selector is GRUB.

My question is: which tool can do the backup / restore job for such an entire hard drive without losing any partiton infomation? (Acronis True Image Home 2009 doesn't work for 256k I-node)

Thanks for any help.
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If you are cloning hard drives, you could also just go from drive to drive:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

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Check out Clonezilla Live:
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live

Before you perform the operation, make sure the Master Boot Record (MBR) is included.
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Thanks for your help.