How to make a bootable 10.6 in hd with time machine back up?

i have:
- not so stable internal hd
- 10.6 retail OS disc
- an external hd that is a time machine back up of the internal hd
can I make a bootable OS copy in the external hd without erasing the time machine back up In it?
macbook 2007

You would be better off with 2 external drives. If you put a bootable clone on the existing drive and the drive fails, you have lost both your backups. I would get a larger 2nd external, copy the Time Machine backup to it, erase and reformat the 1st external, and then put CCC clone there. You can copy the backup using Disk Utility Restore tab.
Stuffing 2 backups on a 120 GB drive would be a bit of a pinch.
Clone - Carbon Copy Cloner (Often recommended as it has more features than some others)
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