If you are looking to clone disks for other machines, like the OP, not sure what to do. If you are after a solution to keep images of your computer, I recently found interesting link on this forum that I am also exploring right now:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_To_...rating_Systems
Sounds OK as solution. I am mostly interested because you can restore on smaller partition than the one you imaged, as long as the data fits of course.
Cloning for different machines is not easy task, even in windows. The hardware is rarely identical, for a start. When you add to that that linux is working quite differently than windows, it's not a simple job.
PS. I just remembered, the OP mentioned Acronis in the title and exactly Acronis can image linux partitions too. I think the only limitation is that it will image the whole partition, not just the used part, because it can't read what's inside. It will basically image block by block. But I might be wrong, they are improving linux compatibility with every release.
But I guess even imaging like this will still make you do reconfigurations on the new machine.
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