Using Time Machine & Superduper as backup solutions

I have a 2 TB firewire drive that I have partitioned into a partition for Time Machine and Superduper.  My thought is to have a bootable backup using Superduper and use Time machine for individual user file storage and recovery.  I also have Parallels running and the Vista environment under Parallels is about 200 GB.  Time machine is always backing up that file if I have Parallels running, so i am excluding Windows Vista.pvm which is that environment.  What else can I exclude safely from Time Machine that is just redundent if I am using Superduper.
I am going to schedule Superduper to run at 2:00 AM each day.
Any concerns or suggestions about my approach or are their any alternatives that would be better.

EricGAnderson wrote:
I am sure that I don't need a lot of system files
Yes, you do.  First, they don't take up much space (they're only backed-up when they change); second, you can't do a full system restore without them.    See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #11, especially the pink box.
Superduper may be just as easy a way to restore a file like an app that does not change from month to month.
A "simple" app, yes.  A "complex" one (typically one that came with its own installer), no.  Those put other files in other places, and/or "helper" apps; if you don't also restore all of them, the app won't work properly.
Again, the space saved is rarely significant.
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