Backing up 2 year old iBook with only 1.98GB of memory left

I recently bought a external HDD(120GB Maxtor OneTouch mini) to back up my 60GB iBook. I am wondering is there any difference between backing-up files using the accompanying software (onetouch manager) and just copying files to the HDD by clicking and dragging? The internal HDD is nearly full and I would like to erase unneeded photos etc. after transferring them to the external HDD but I want to be sure they are secure.
Any advice/ideas would be appreciated, thanks.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Just one suggestion about the photos--also burn some CD's of them at some point as additional backup. It's best not to entrust anything you care about to a hard drive alone, just in case it might fail some time in the future. And it will give you extra security that your photos have been saved in two different ways..
Good luck!

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