Can I just drag OSX over to another HD?

After re-initialising my external HD, can I just drag the system folder over to my external HD, in order to have a mirror system on the ext. HD from which I can boot? I would rather do that than installing from CD if I could, because there have been many updates to OSX since my install disks, and I would rather not have to download hundreds of megabytes of updates to make it current.
If I want to drag OSX across, which folders are the ones to drag?
Does the "restore" function in Disktools perform a similar task, ie copy OSX to a target disk?
Thanks
A.

Unfortunately you can't. What you need to do is to use a cloning tool to do this such as SuperDuper! (my recommendation)…
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
… else Carbon Copy Cloner…
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13260

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victorfromcórdoba wrote:
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