How to ensure a smooth update and smooth running mac

Hello all. First off this is not a 'help' or 'query' post, thanks to everyone in this Discussion who has helped me in the past for various mac problems, thought I "give back" and post some good tips and usage on "ensuring a smooth update and smooth running mac" in the long run.
Altogether I have 3 Macs at home to "maintain" (my iMac G5, MacBook and my sis's Mac mini Intel) and in the office my own G5 Tower and 2-3 other same G5s. So far I have "dare to say" (touchwood ) I have not run into any major problems while performing any major OS or Security Updates; I know some of these steps are mentioned and even "preach" many times, but by doing them, you avoid all the inconvenience in the long run:
Always Backup:
1. Whatever you do, invest in a 2nd hard drive and perform regular back ups!
2. If you have a G5 Tower or Mac Pro, get a 2nd drive or 3rd and install internally, if you have the other Macs, get an external FireWire Hard Drive.
3. Use SuperDuper, and pay the little shareware to get the additional automatic and scheduling functions to help you perform auto backups, or if you prefer doing the backup manually
4. For home users, I would recommend you perform a Backup once every 2 weeks. Heavy office/work use, I say once a week
Performing Updates:
1. Before Starting Up, unplug all external devices like FW drives, USB hubs etc, leave only your wired keyboard, mouse and internet connection (unless they are all wireless)
2. Start Up your mac, quit all running applications and Repair Disk Permission
3. Restart again and Repair Permission again
4. Quit all other running apps and also turn off Norton Anti-virus, run Software Update
5. Whether or not you have the Restart option after the update, Restart your mac
6. Repair Disk Permission
7. Shut down the mac, fix all the external devices etc
8. Start up your mac, Repair Permission again
9. Use your Mac as usual
I have been doing these since all the 10.4 updates and I have not encounter any problems with all my macs.
When a Kernel Panic occurs:
1. Restart the mac and boot into Single User Mode (fsck)
2. Run fsck and Repair the mac
3. Reboot the mac, Repair Permission
Regular Maintenance:
1. Get a Maintenance Utility like Cocktail, and pay for the shareware and schedule regular maintenance cycles.
2. The Mac OS also has a "built-in" maintenance script that runs in the wee hours (local time), so it is actually encourage that you at least leave your mac on overnight for at least one or two nights in the week.
If you do not wish your mac to be left on till the morning, you can always schedule in Energy Saver's Schedule options for the mac to turn on and off at your designated times.
I always leave my office mac on till about 4-5 am in the morning and I set things like Cocktail and NAV scans to run in those hours so they won't disrupt your day time operations, I do the same to my own home iMac.
These tips and pointers are not new and have been mentioned many times in these posts, but if you just take that extra little time to follow through, you will be ensure a better and healtheir running mac.
Cheers

You can enter your Mac's serial number at this site. Information, based on the serial number, will be shown. http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html Then tell us what model PB you have.
Usually, you get a blinking ? when no OS is installed. The startup tone (bong) you heard indicates the PB passed the startup hardware test.
 Cheers, Tom

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