want to back up 3 drives onto 1 big drive

[chris7777]

thanks,

I actually have FOUR drives I need to back up. If I create 4 partitions, that will create too many icons on my desktop AND in the finder window (on the left side). I would have a total of 8 volumes that way!!! too much clutter.

I have an 80gb, 120gb, and two 200gb drives, all of which are 2/3 full

I suppose the best approach would be the hybrid approach. so thanks for that suggestion. But let me first ask you one question about restoring from a sparsed image.

It doesn't seem to be much of a big deal to use Disk Utility to restore from a sparsed disk image. All you have to do is boot with your OSX Installer disk, and use Disk UTility to choose the Super Duper! created image to restore the original drive, right? that doesn't seem very inconvenient, to me.

question: when creating scripts to back up multiple drives, do I have to stagger the start times? if so, by how much? I don't know how much time to allow for each of the four drives.

question: after backing up last night, my backup HD now has the exact same Icon as my original icon. how can I prevent the bootable backup's Hard Drive icon from looking like the original drive's icon?