What is the best way to backup your hard drive?

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Madlduke

I want to make sure I always have a backup of my entire hard drive. I was looking at external hard drives but I donât see the advantage of having an external vs an internal. What is the best way to go? Also what is the best backup software? I would like the backup to completely restore everything, even programs. Thanks.

Answer
An External Hard Drive.

How to configure an external Hard drive to store files from two different OSes?

I have two computers. I have a desktop and a laptop. The desktop is Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

The laptop is a different story. My laptop is a triple boot of 3 different linux distros. I have Precise Puppy Linux, Debian 6.07 (squeeze) and Ubuntu 12.10 on my Internal 80 gig laptop hard drive. Yes, that is pretty miniscule, but this is a 5 or 6 year old laptop. I recently bought a 3 Terabyte WD elements External Hard drive. This is a lot of space, and my main plan for this was to use it to store games for my laptop. It has A LOT of space, and way more than i need for a laptop. I do not want to use this for any sort of backup. It is for storing files on, not backup, which is why i bought a hard drive without the backup software built in. It wouldn't fit all my files anyway, since the hard disks in my desktop add up to 3.5 Terabytes.

Anyway, my question is this: How would I go about making it so i could store files for two seperate computers with completely different operating systems? My thought was that i would do an NTFS partition, and an ext3 partition. Would this work if i wanted to make a steam directory for from both computers on this thing?
Forgot to say: The OS i use the most is ubuntu since steam is made for it. I have already formatted the drive to ext3 atm, and i could add an NTFS partition if needed.

Answer
Hi There,
Windows can read/write to NTFS and I know Puppy Linux can read/write to NTFS.
Puppy Slacko 5.3.3 can read/write NTFS and it is based upon Slackware.
Some other Puppys are based upon Debian and they can read/write NTFS.
I would try the external drive as it is (NTFS) and it will probably work.
If not you can always make an ext3 partition later.
Hope this helps,
Al

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