Can you still backup your stuff to an external harddrive if your harddrive is down?

so my harddrive is down and im taking it to the Apple store tomorrow but i was wondering if you can still backup your stuff beforehand to an external harddrive?

Do you have a bootable backup? If so you can boot from it then see if it can read the internal drive. What model of Macbook Pro and what version of OS X do you have?

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