Backing up files in USB External Hardrive

I hope this is an appropriate to place to post:
I bought a used SEAGATE Internal Hardrive 160gigs with an enclousure, so it works just like an external hard drive. Now the enclousure is only for USB. I have as of now partioned it into 2, as MAC OX Extended. I copied and pasted all my files to one of the partitions.
This is what I want to know:
1. Can I make a mirror/clone of hd with a USB External HD? (my understanding is that only software works with Firewire)
2. If I can make this, will there be a bootable disc, to start my computer if it ever crashed?
3. How would i create a bootable disc (like the startup discs in the CD's), in general?
(for now, I'm updating iphoto, itunes, safari, and my whole documents folders, and applications, whenever I make any changes. I don't mind doing it manually) but I would like to be able to boot from the ext HD if it ever crashed.
Please correct me if I wrote anything wrong or for any clarifications. Thank you.

Thank you for that information:
So with the information you provided, if my computer ever crashed or if ever I wanted to reinstall OS-X, I would have to use the bootable discs that were provided.
Then, I would have to manually install each application that didn't come with the original set up?
From my understanding I would be able to still drag the iphoto, itunes, safari settings to the way they were before. (i was reading some other posts about this)
So as long as continually update all these, if I ever have to or want to, this all should would work.

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