How to back-up efficiently?

Hi all,
I have posted a separate question regarding which external hard drive is best for the iBook.
I'd like to also ask about what is the best way to go about backing up data.
i.e.
I have a 30 GB drive on my iBook. The external drive I'm going to use will have 250 GB.
1) Should I partition the external drive? Will this help gain space? If so, should I divide it into one 30-GB partition to back-up my internal drive, and leave the remaining space as a second partition?
2) Regarding backing up the internal drive, as I have installation disks for all my applications, my thinking is that I should only be backing up my files, not the applications. To do this, do I only need to copy my "house" icon?
3) A major reason for this external drive is to store photos. Should my photo management application (either iPhoto or NikonViewNX) be stored on the external drive too, or do I have to drag my photo files onto my internal drive whenever I want to edit them, then save them back onto the external drive?
This is my first external drive (have been backing up on CD until now), so any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks

Hi Lutetia,
To answer your questions in order:
1) Yes. Create a 30GB partition
2) Create a Clone of your internal drive onto the 30GB partition. This can be done with Disk Utility but DU doesn't have an incremental back-up facility which Carbon Copy Cloner, amongst others, has. Create the initial clone with CCC, or alternative SW of your choice (but CCC is free), to be able to do incremental backups with the same SW.
The advantage of having a bootable clone is that if your internal HD packed up you could boot from the clone and continue working. Note that you'd need a Firewire external drive to accomplish this.
3) iPhoto can be directed to a library on an external drive. I haven't done this so can't advise further but a wealth of info can be got from the iPhoto forum. Last time I looked in there yours was a common question so browse around/search and you should get the info you need.
Good luck and post back if you need any more guidance.
Adrian

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