Do i have to have a firewire drive to hold snow leopard

i plan on updating to lion. presently i have snow leopard and am using a 250gb firewire drive as my backup. rather than to go thru the partitioning process, i'll probably purchase an additional external drive to serve as backup and keep the drive filled with snow leopard when i want to boot it.
vice versa, i may want to transfer snow leopard to a 1tb usb drive i already have, and boot it when i need snow leopard. thus, i would use the former snow leopard backup firewire drive as the new lion backup drive. whew!
any suggestions as to whether or not usb would be ok?
thanks,

lanny, not quite sure of your question but i believe this answers it: 4 usb 2.0 ports and a firewire 800 port. also have a combination usb/firewire hub.
drives are firewire 400(with adapter cable for 800) and usb 2.

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