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I booted my computer to Windows, installed Macrium Reflect Free, and created a Macrium recovery disk. I then switched to my Linux hard drive and booted with the Macrium recovery disk. I then tried to back up the now-Linux computer, but Macrium couldn't see the Linux drive. (Perhaps if I used NTFS in Linux, Macrium could do it.) However, someone sent me a message telling me that he WAS able to do the above Linux backup with the Macrium recovery disk. And he has EXT4 volumes, not NTFS.
I read about a guy who boots with a Ubuntu Linux Live disk, then uses GPARTED to copy any partition (Linux, Windows, etc.) to an external hard drive, then use it to shrink the partition afterward. He said that years ago he used to do backups that way with Partition Magic.
Steve Gibson ("SpinRite") recommends Terabyte for backing up Windows and Linux.
Redo Backup (http://redobackup.org/) is a bare-metal backup backup system; you run it by booting with a "Live" CD, and it boots into its own OS, allowing you to backup whatever OS you are running. Redo Backup is free.