How to clone harddrive to external drive

Hi there,
I have a Lacie 250 Gig external firewire drive and would like to put my OS on there so I can boot from it if things go pearshaped. I have OS X 10.3.4, can someone recommend how best to do this? Been searching on the forums and superduper is an option but it looks like this only works on 10.3.9 and above...
Thanks
Pete.

You could email the support link at the SuperDuper! website and ask if they'll sell you the older 10.2.8-compatible version, or just go to the Bombich website and download the older version 2.3 of Carbon Copy Cloner.
Is there some reason you don't want to use the Mac OS X Combo Update 10.3.9?

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