First time here..

Hello Everyone
First time posting on this forum, have been looking through everything and man are you guys helpful!
Anyway, I am looking to finally back everything up. Currently I put all video and photos on an external lacie firewire drive, and all my itunes music is on an external ''My Book" usb drive.
I just purchased a 500gig My Book external to back up all my stuff, but after reading these forums, see that I would be better off with a firewire external HD. I also hear a lot about the SuperDuper app, but it looks like you have to have firewire to use that as well. I could only swing this 129.00 dollars for this ''My Book" but if that is useless than I will return and see what I can afford firewire - wise.
I also am hearing about ''time machine'' that is coming with Leopard.
So, I guess my questions are: Should I dump the new ''my book'' and get a Lacie Firewire? Should I purchase ''super duper'' or wait for ''time machine''? and also, what is the best way to backup in general and incremental updates?
btw...i have a lot of video, music, and photos on my mac and external hds. By lot, I mean thousands!
thanks so much for any and all advice and help.
Jim

Hi jctez;
I think you will be ahead of the game if you can exchange the USB disk for a Firewire one. Firewire on Mac is just so much better.
If you clone the drive with SuperDuper, the next time it does an incremental and only write what has changed so it is very quickly.
As far as Time Machine goes my plan is to continue with a clone using SD for disaster recovery because I know that a clone can get me back up and running with only a reboot. I am not so sure of exactly what Time Machine will do for you if your system disk decides to melt down. Until I know that I'll use both methods. Multiple backups are a good thing like a belt and suspenders.
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