Backing Up Files & Applications

It seems to me that I should have been able to find a simple answer to this question, but I wasn't successful.
I want to backup all the files & apps from my 20" Intel Duo iMac. I do not have an external disk, but I think I should be able to do so to a DVD. Can I?
But I cannnot find a backup program installed on the computer. I must be missing something. There's probably some menu item somewhere that I just click on & it backs up!
Nor have I been able to find instructions on the Mac site for doing this.
I have Photoshop CS3 Beta on my machine, and adobe instructs to backup the entire computer before doing the uninstall.
THANKS

Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
7. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
5. BurnAgain DVD
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore. See also the Apple article on backup and restore.
Some of the utilities mentioned above will backup to removable media and even span across multiple discs - Retrospect, Apple's Backup, BurnAgain DVD, and Impression.
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