How to do a full backup

I was told by an apple genius to do a full system backup because they need to erase all of the stuff on my hdd to complete test every part of my computer to see if my computer is worth fixing or replacing. I have what the genius calls "Ghosting". He says it is very serious problem. So like the topic says how do I do a full system backup. I was told to drag the Macintosh HD to the portable hdd, but every time I do that it starts and then it says that I still have a file that already exists and then I hit ok, and then it stops. Any other ways.

I installed superduper last night. I don't have a firewire drive so i cloned my harddisk to an external USB2 drive; that went successfully.
I just read your thread and decided to try and boot from it. I held down 'option' after a restart, and sure enough i booted the clone no problems; it was like the whole computer was running in Rosetta (usb2 speed) but worked perfect nonetheless.
I then ran disk utility from another restart and it allowed me the option to restore from the USB2 clone.
So yes
Superduper states you can use a USB2 drive but they recommend firewire, i would imagine this is due to the transfer times - would take a while to restore from a USB drive

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