Backup when using MacHD and and External Drive

Hi
I was just reading your discussion group on back up. It appears that one can use the "restore" feature on the disk utilities program of Mac Os - to my understanding this will create a mirror image, or you can use a scheduled back up program, such as Super Duper. Does a program like this do a straight back up or synchronise only the changed files to the destination volume
Previously I used a shareware program called syncback on the PC - you could run multiple different shedules and back up formulas. Do you know of any good shareware programs that exist for the mac for backing up?
I have a mac book pro, and a 150GB ext drive where i keep photo's and music. Ideall I would like to be able to back up these to another ext drive.
Does anyone know about backing up external drives to other external drives, is this possible, or does one have to copy the files first to the lap top hard drive?
thanks for the advice
bishan

Hi Bishan,
There are lots of backup utilities. A few trusted ones are EMC Retrospect (It is the high priced spread and also a bit too complicated for my tastes). My preference as you mention, SuperDuper and LaCie's SilverKeeper (Free), and Carbon Copy Cloner
The one you mention SD is the one I use. It's simple to use and 100% reliable for me after a year of daily use. I have it setup to backup nightly to 2 external hard drives with a bi-monthly rotation. Yes, it only backs files that have changed since the last backup, if you choose that option, I do. Read the documentation.
Yes, you can back up from hard drive to hard drive without going through the internal.
Post back with any other questions you may have.
-mj
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