Customizing a backup plan for mac osx10.6.8

What to do to backup all content of every file to an external hard drive Go-Flex Pro for Mac
My old back  back up plan is not sufficient.  i dont seem to have Time Machine with my Sno leopard
Thank you

Unless you deleted the application, you most certainly do have Time Machine. There is a prefence pane for it in the system settings, and the application itself is in the Applications folder.
If for some reason you prefer not to use Time Machine, then there are a number of third-party synchronization applications available such as Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper, ChronoSync, and a number of others.
Regards.

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