Back-up of system to a NTFS partition

HowTo 1:
How to back up the whole linux system using Partimage on a NTFS partition?

An use of ntfs-3g couldn't be lack to do above mentioned task, otherwise you will be warned by being short of enough space or permission to go on. The basic GUI procedure to this as follows:

Boot your pc with SystemRescueCD, while at the console, first you will need to make a directory for mounting a NTFS partition; then proceed with mounting the NTFS, that the backup will be stored, to the newly created directory.

$ mkdir /mnt/backup

$ ntfs-3g /dev/sda5 /mnt/backup

note1: it couldn't be creating /mnt only, it must be followed with another directory name.
note2: the above example assume that /dev/sda5 is the NTFS partition that the backup to be stored.
note3: to check the available devices, do this: $ fdisk -l

$ partimage

then you will come to a partimage windows, explanations with images will be added on later.

* the compression rate is about 34 ~ 35% for the gzip method.
* to back up 2.3GiB systems to a 850MB compressed file takes about
17min on my computer: Intel 1.7GHz, 256MB Ram