Carbon Copy Cloner Vrs. Mac Disk Utilityy

Somebody with experience may be able to answer this: I'm lookng at cloning disk images from the internal drive to external FW dirive. i can do the same thing with the Apple Disk utility, or with Caron Copy Cloner. As near as I can tell, the only advntage that Carbon Copy Cloner has is the ability to schedule the disk image creation.
But, here's the problem. The last time I burned a clone disk image to my external drive, it took about 10 hours! That kind of makes the method not so practical. Can CC Cloner do it faster, or just schedule and automate it for me?
Thanks
iMac 20"   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   Long Live the Mac!

Hi
At risk of sounding like a parrot, I too recommend using SuperDuper!.
Kevin's right. The best thing to do is partition your external HD (if very different in size from your internal) so that you have a partition that is the same size of your internal HD, and then make a bootable clone of your internal HD on that. Subsequent updates using the licensed version of SuperDuper! typically take less than ten minutes.
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