I'm about to start taking Time Machine seriously. I've been years without a real backup strategy. [View all]

Last time I had a working backup strategy I was using a tape drive which could store 2GB (IIRC) on a DAT cartridge. It's been ages since I could afford most repairs, much less really useful peripherals, so I only just now picked up a 1TB USB SSD for my backup drive, and will be getting a 250GB USB SSD for some duplicate backups.

Now, none of the disks I'm backing up is all that large -- I have *very* little use for music files and almost none for video, so I could easily back up several disks on those SSDs, **IF** there's not some problem with splitting at least one of the backup disks into partitions so I can put backups for two or three different OSs on the same disk.

Anyone know of potential problems here ? Do I have to set up the drive a certain way, other than using Disk Tools to create the partitions ? I don't anticipate needing to boot off of either one of these drives, so that might limit any problems. I've actually got several boot drives with Linux (Manjaro or Linux Lite) and WinXP (basically retired) on the same drive, or multiple installations of Linux distros, and even a Mac Pro which formerly had seven partitions (OSX 10.7 and 10.9 and various Linux distros) on one disk, but I wasn't really using Time Capsule and I don't know what to expect there.

Any suggestions on little details I should be sure to do, or not to do ??