back up - home folder

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I would like to back up my home folder to a external HD....I tried to slide the "house" folder to an external HD, but It blew away (luckly I could get everything back!! It was scary)....what could I do to make a back up of my home folder?
 
Another question. Once I'll have my home folder copied to the external HD, will I be able to add additional files for backup to the HD, or will the fact of having my home folder copied into it make the external HD a bootable device?
 
Yes, you can add more folders to the backup drive, but that drive won't be bootable if you only clone your Home Folder to it.

You would have to clone your OS X drive to the external to be bootable.
 
So I will clone my iBook OS X drive to the external HD.
Will I then be able to add to this external HD a clone copy of a desktop G4 which runs on OS 9.2 + my iTunes library?
Will both clone systems be bootable?

Thanks for helping me!
 
If I were doing this, I would make two partitions on the external drive. Clone your OS X system to one partition.
For OS 9, you can just drag the OS 9 System Folder to the other partition.
 
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