[n5tkn]

This is probably extremely simple, but I don't want to either make it too simple or overly complex.

I have an old single cpu G4 Xserve running 10.3. All it does is provide AFP and SMB access to approximately 150 gigs of printing artwork files ( we are a commerical printer). About once a month I put in a second drive sled, copy everything over from the other drive that is the "production" drive, and take it offsite. I have an external firewire drive that has a 500 gig capacity that is partitioned into 2 drives. What I'd like is the best way, scripted or otherwise, to once a week, copy everything from the file drive to this external drive, and right before doing that, on a different day probably, copy what is on this external drives first partition to the second partition, overwriting what is on the second partition, so I would always have 2 weeks plus the current week of backups of these files. Our biggest danger here besides a drive failure is deletion of something that it turns out we needed, or an accidental deletion.

Does that convey what I want to do? I would think it would be scriptable somehow, but I'm not versed at all in scripting, certainly don't mind learning it but also don't want to wipe a 150 gigs of data while learning either. I haven't upgraded the OS as this machine only does what I just described and so I've not see the need to upgrade it. If what I'm wanting to do can't be done on 10.3, I can look at upgrading, but if it can be done on the current OS I'd certainly like to do it.

Thanks very much.