new MacBook, no FireWire

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Originally Posted by dnanian

Do not make the partition the same size as the data: that's a huge mistake. Make a 60GB partition. Your data WILL grow: it always does.

You'll need separate partitions for each volume you want to back up.

That's what I was wondering. Can I use one physical drive with multiple partitions, each formatted appropriately, to perform full bootable backups for more than one computer. To clarify for all... Lets say I purchase a 1TB OWC firewire drive, then partition it with 2 or 3 HFC partitions each partition would be formatted to correspond with the type MAC it will be used for (ie. PPC or intel). Then I could perform full backups of 2 or more computers on that one drive, and still be able to boot any of those computers from the appropriate partition, should one have catastrophic hdd problems?