Copy and paste applications folder?

Hey,
I used to back up my powerbook to an external drive partition using Disk Utility but niw it throws up an error after a few seconds of copying over, and I can't format the external drive as it has other important stuff on the other partitions. So I've been copying and pasting my home folder ( which works fine ) to this partition.
What I was wondering was if I copy over my Apps folder too, in the event of my Mac dying and a new one arriving, would I be able to import my Apps folder via copy and paste and have everything sitting like it is now??
Or does anyone know why disk utility crokes everytime??
many thanks
John

I'm not sure why Disk Utility won't do what you wish, - what is the error it gives you? - but I don't think that using copy and paste will work on your Applications folder.
The reason is that while some applicaions are self contained, many have references to folders in the /Library or /System/Library (for instance any the required an Admin password to install) as well as to your own Home/Library folder, and any of these can only be re-installed with the supplied installers.
Instead of this, you could CLONE the hard drive which would make a complete copy of the drive on your external disk. There are several apps which will do this for you.
In relation to copying and pasting your home folder, have you considered using software that will make incremental back ups (that is, only copy the changed files, which is a lot faster. There are many out there from the very reasonable to the horrendously expensive.
Regards
TD

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