OS upgrade/maintenance

I am about to back up all my data from internal and external drives.
To do so, I need to get a new DVD burner, for my old G4dual450. There is one newer burner that is custom made for this machine, but it is not compatible with my 10.2.3 OSX. Tiger is too large for my current main system drive, and so I cannot perform an install in-place scheme.
I would either have to wipe my main system drive, or else install Tiger and a new version of Toast in another drive temporarily, until the data is verified backed-up.
Would you recommend either of the above scenarios, or something else altogether? I would like to just wipe the main system drive with a fresh install, but should I be worried about losing associated file schemes, and will the architecture remember where all that data is with a fresh OS and wiping the main drive?
Thanks, any insight is appreciated!

For backup purposes I would just get an external Firewire drive. That way you can clone to it and then boot from it should the need arise. With DVDs you're just spending a lot of money on single use items and the only way to back up a modern computer is with an external drive.
If you don't have sufficient space to do an archive and install it means you're running it pretty low on spare drive space. OSX requires a lot of space just to run smoothly, and if you cramp it your system may crash.
I am not sure that a dual 450 requires anything more than a stock drive. In that case most new drives (for example Pioneer) will work pretty much out of the box. Are you sure it requires a "custom" drive?
I think if we knew more about your computer we could assess the situation better. I'm wondering in the first place if you have to upgrade to get a new optical drive working. If you do then I am starting to suspect you may need to do several upgrades if you want to get Tiger to work on this computer (e.g. hard drive, RAM).

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Mohamed,
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Edited by: Göran Westin on Feb 11, 2011 5:19 PM

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Last edited by quayasil (2013-07-11 12:50:36)

AFAIK there is nothing wrong in placing both 'domain' and 'nssearch' in '/etc/resolv.conf'. I'm afraid that netctl ignores 'DNSSearch' entry if 'DNSDomain' is present. Is it a bug or a 'feature'?
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