Backup recommendations for G5 10.5.8?

I'm wondering what the best backup solutions are for a G5 running 10.5.8. I'm open to online options and whatever other kinds of options there are. I'd also appreciate any advice on options I should avoid. (Unfortunately I have never backed up my machine, so I'm brand new at this.)
Thanks in advance for any advice you may have.
Chris

Hi Chris,
Personally I'd avoid online backups, they're slow, expensive, and not very useful if say your Hard Drive goes down.
I strongly recommend that you get a good Firewire drive to Clone your Internal drive to ASAP!
http://eshop.macsales.com/search/firewire+drives
Many of those come with Backup SW, or...
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Or SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
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Can some one tell me (preferably a Verizon technical resource) the status of Backup Assistant for Contact Information?
I upgraded to a new phone a few weeks ago, and when searching MyVerizon saw the availability of the "free" contact backup capability...     It is not really free for me, because I don't have a data/text plan, so I had to pay for the app download and sync text transfer.    I figured it would be worth a few dollars to have the backup capability and ability to enter data from a keyboard instead of the numeric pad (I have a flip phone without a qwerty keyboard).     The sync import of my phone's contact list worked fine, and I spent quite a bit of time updating addresses online...   However, the changes online were not exported back to my phone, so my work added no value me.
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Tried reading documentation to see if there was an explanation of how to download changes made online to phone...     Could find nothing other than instructions to download to a "new" phone...
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2) When will the site be functioning with normal capability?
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BillW wrote:
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I am not a Verizon employee, I am simply a customer, satisfied for the most part with my service, and I like to help others. This recent BA mess is not fun....and I hope it gets resolved very soon.

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Windows - Changing IPhone and iPad backup location
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