How do I create a back up disk?

I bought a Lacie External Harddrive along with my MacBook last summer and I have yet to back up any of my work. I bought because my last hard drive crashed so upon getting a new computer I wanted to avoid losing all my data again. I was told in ordder to be able to open everything I not only need to back up my files by also my system. I started out by just clicking on my internal Mac HD and copying it all to my external harddrive...when that said it would take 5 hours I determined I should probably ask. What should I do to back up all of my files and be able to open everything in the event of a crash?? I'm lost beyond copy and paste.

I suggest either Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper for back ups. They are both very good and I have used both. I preffered SuperDuper but they haven't got it working with Leopard yet so now I use CCC.
The sites will have some helpful tips on backing up. You might want to look at both and decide which one you like best.

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[SuperDuper|http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html] (shareware)
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[Tri-Backup (commercial)|http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html] (payware)
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