Backup PB Hard Drive to External Hard Drive

hi. i searched for this answer in the forum but couldn't find it so maybe one of you can help.
i bought an external hard drive to back up powerbook's hardrive to. the plan was to just drag and drop copy it to the hard drive. however, during the process the backup gets cancelled because one or more files are in use.
is there anyway i can do this in one step?
thanks!
mike

See my FAQ:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
If your external hard drive is big enough, you can just use one button backing up opening the program Superduper and using Smart Update as a preference. Just be sure the Finder Get Info on the hard drive has the Get Info checkbox for ignoring permissions unchecked.
The reason drag and drop won't work is because Mac OS X, like most Unix operating systems runs many programs in the background, and assigns specific privileges to specific programs. It is best to quit any third party software programs you have installed before starting the backup process with Superduper.

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