Need help backing up info from MacPro AND Powerbook G4 to external drive...

As the title implies, I would like to backup my stuff from my MacBook Pro AND my OLD dinosaur PowerBook G4 to an external Seagate drive. 
What would be the best/easiest way to move this to the external?
I am mainly concerned with my Photos, Movies, Music.
I remember having a nightmare of a time with the PowerBook as I had a corrupted the photo library and had photos ALL over the place! I became very frustrated and bought the newer MacPro.  (lesson learned)
I decided to pull out the dino and have decided to conquer it again.  Could someone help me out or point me in the right direction?
I have the most current version of SuperDuper on my MacPro.  I bought a 1st gen Time Capsule and resold it because of all of the problems people were having with them.  Will get a NEW Time Capsule soon but no funds now. (Christmas coming up)
Thank You!
BTW: I wasn't sure where to post this question.....? PowerBook discussions or MacPro discussions?

Fully-updated 10.5 on your PowerPC will work fine with a Time Capsule, as will 10.5, 10.6, or 10.7 on a Mac Pro. This is the easiest to manage in the long run, once you make certain it is actually performing the backup without error.
(Some users find their first backups fail due to bad disknames or bad filenames or damaged files, but once these are eliminated, it seems to work fine.).
You can manually move a single external drive into position to back up each Mac in turn, but that is more work and you lose automaticity, so Time Machine would not necessarily be the best backup solution. Bootable clones may be preferable. Most folks would suggest that BOTH solutions should be used for best results.
Drives are cheap. We used to spend US$1000 for 80 MegaBytes.

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