How do you install a backed up hard drive?

Hi Guys,
I recently had my hard drive expire on my G5
I have a back up of all data and applications that is on an external hard drive.
How do I now install this back on to my G5 and its new hard drive?
Is it as simple as drag and drop? Do I have to reinstall all the applications?
I have wondered with all this talk about back ups, how it actually works.
Can anyone help out ? are there some explanations I can follow?
where should i look
many thanks

You are in the Mac Pro forums.  You should post your question in the Power Mac forums.
What you should have done is to copy your entire bootable internal drive to the external (for example, using Carbon Copy Cloner).  Then you could reverse the operation to create your new internal. 
I can't tell you how to restore what you backed up because I don't know what you backed up.  Odds are, yes, you will need to reinstall to recreate registrations, preferences, and other data associated with each application.

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