Andrea Ambu's questions

I'm building a backup station.

I'd like to be able to get an image of an HDD containing its partition table and all its partition (not one partition at the time) so that restoring will be easy to do. I'd like to do it with different HDD simultaneously, and each one will be USB.

I tried partimage but it seems to backup one partition at the time. I tried to use clonezilla but it seems to need a client machine and that's not what I need.

A linux solution will be appreciated, but I could use it in virtual machine if needed, even if I'd like it to be an automated process as much as possible.

It must support NTFS because most of the backups I'll do will use NTFS.

Note:
clonezilla seems interesting because as I understood it the client builds a package and sends it to the server over the network. I'd like to build the same easily-restorable package of an HDD plugged via USB, without any extra machine or network involvement.

I have 4 nameserver set for my domain: ns1.nameserver.com, ns2.nameserver.com, ect...

I know that if one is down an other one will be used. But if the first is up and running and is asked for a domain it doesn't know, will the request be passed to a second nameserver?

To clarify:
I registered a domain.com. Then I specified 2 nameservers (the authoritative I think its their name) that my hosting gave me. I've also an other hosting, I'd like to use it for some subdomains, if I add its nameservers as authoritative what happens?

This doesn't work:

ErrorDocument 401 ../../src/wrong_pwd.php

it renders the path as text, it really prints

../../src/wrong_pwd.php

and doesn't output the real file.

If I put the absolute path it will render the contents of /var/www/home (I don't really know why, maybe it's something in httpd.conf?)

How can I do that?

And why should I pick one instead of the other?

Is there a way to remote control a Windows machine as easy as I do with my other Linux pcs through SSH?

I'm currently using a FTP server for files but I prefer the way I can manage my other linux boxes. I'd like it to be textual just like ssh, is there anything like that? I mean running programs, rebooting/turning off, copying/editing files ect...

I read about Cygwin, does it do what I need?

EDIT:
I did not specified it before, it should be free