Backup to external harddrive

Hello,
I want to backup my iPhoto library to an external firewire drive so that I can rebuild my iBook. How do I do this without going into each individual folder and dragging the photos to the hard drive? If i drag the folder "iPhoto Library" to my drive and then try to move it back, will it mess things up with I try to import into iPhoto from that photo?
How do I do this?
Thanks,
Matt

Hi Mathew,
Drag the entire iPhoto Library folder to a Mac formatted external.
After you rebuild your ibook and reinstall iPhoto (do not open it yet) drag the iPhoto Library folder from the external back into the Pictures folder of your ibook. Launch iPhoto and it should open the library. There is no importing done this way.

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