HT1229 What is the best method for backing up iPhoto photos?

Should I copy the full library to a backup disk? Should I copy individual albums? Should I copy individual jpg photos?
How to restore the saved copy to Iphoto in the event that the original version suffers a hard drive crash.
I am running an older version of iPhoto on a G5 iMac on OSX 10.4.1. The iPhoto version is version 5.

Yes you can just drag the iPhoto librarhy to the external - CCC (and SuperDuper )  is great in that after the first copy it just updates the clone
LN

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