Creating an image on external drive

Greetings,
Although I have in the past successfully created an image of my entire internal drive (250 GB) onto an external Lacie FW (250 GB) when I now attempt to repeat the process, having re-formatted my Lacie, I get the message that "there is not enough space on the device" (Lacie)
Lacie support says I should "lower the size of the image I'm trying to create using my backup software" I'm using Disk Utility and as far as I know I can't limit the size of a disk image other than compressing and I need to keep the image read/write. Maybe I can do this with other back-up software? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers and thank you all for the very useful ideas in these discussion forums.
iMac20 intel core-duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Dogbyke
To help answer your question we need more info;
What did you format your External HD to, as certian format's limit copy file size?
What is the available space in external HD?
What is the used space in the internal HD?
The best short answers for you are here;
For Backup to External HD select the method that best suit's your needs.
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
For a Bootable Clone to External HD start here.
http://www.macmaps.com/clonedu.html
Dennis
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