Need help choosing a new backup plan

[Pyezahn]

Right now I have OSX Leopard installed on my Macbook Pro. I do NOT have a bootcamp partition, I loaded Windows XP through Parallels.

I recently found the need to boot into Windows natively, so I need to create a bootcamp partition for my XP OS.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to make this transition, while continuing to backup my system "completely". I'm just not sure what's the right way to do it.

I'm guessing that the best scenario would be to have both my internal and external drives partitioned into (1) journaled Mac partition and (1) NTFS Windows partition. But if I remember correctly from the last time I set up a bootcamp partition, NTFS is not an option (?) Or is it? Can I do this? Should I do this? How?

If I did do that, and I backed up the Mac partition with Superduper! and the Win partition with Winclone, would the restore of both partitions individually be seamless and ultimately work properly?

Is this NOT the right approach? Can someone please help set me straight?

[Satcomer]

Buy a cheap Firewire external and use any of the backup options of Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner or Superduper to make "bootable" backups.

Also to make you Mac see NTFS then look at this sites HOWTO & FAQs and Giguara's How to make your Mac OS X recognize, read, and write to NTFS volumes forum. To make NTFS formatted Windows see the Mac HTFS partition then look at my [HOWTO] Make Windows see HFS+ formatted drives.