Can I use my Pismo's external Firewire as backup for my iBook?

Hi,
How can I use my Pismo's Seagate 300Gig external Firewire HD to back up my iBook without destroying all of my Pismo data? My Pismo's internal HD is only 10Gig and my iBook's internal HD is 20Gig.
My external has 2 partitions (10 Gigs of which are a cloned mirror of my Pismo's 10Gig HD and the rest are allocated for disc images of all my lectures). Can it be done without destroying all the data backed up and stored/filed on the external?
A Little Fish in the BigMac Pond

Little Fish,
Just out of curiosity, one of my three partitions on my HD has OS 9.2.2 plus applications, etc. I started up Carbon Copy Cloner on my 10.4.7 partition and cloned my 10.4.7 over to the 9.2.2 partition. None of the existing files was disturbed on the 9.2.2 partition plus the root level (that's what you see when clicking open the HD icon) of the partition was organized just as if both 9.x and 10.x had always been there.
However, this was a one-time CCC. If you are concerned about not disturbing the disk images already on the large partition and you still want to backup the iBook, you might instead use CCC's option to Create a Disk Image on Target. To restore, you would boot to the other partition, mount the disk image file and restore to the target. I have NOT tried this approach so I have no comment on it.
I would say this...if your stored image files are very important, you must take all precautions and avoid risking the integrity of that partition. I would thus not be copying over a working OSX; a disk image is probably safer but if that partition with your disk images is corrupted, do you have another backup? I may be overly cautious but I just want to make sure you know the potential pitfalls.

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