Upgrading to lion loose my data

Good afternoon everybody
I am interested in upgrading my sister's Mac pro from Leopard to Lion. My main concern (avoid beating of my life from my sister) will the upgrade loose all of her data? I am not really familiar with leopard operating system. I went to genius bar but e line was long so I left. I know I should backup the data just in case
But still........
Please free to advice me.
Ps. I bought an external hardrive with FireWire for her laptop ( she refuses to to use),so what should I do?
Thank you
Sam

I don't think Migration Assistant will take the user data from a Leopard clone?
(Somebody tell me if I am wrong, can you download the installer to a Leopard clone and do an erase/install from there if it is bootable).
Maybe you mean Snow Leopard, not just Leopard, that would be a lot easier, a bootable clone would work fine and migration Assistant would take the user data and apps over?
But many of the apps will need updating anyway. I suggest copying these data files to a separate folder on the external disk,
Include archives for:
For Address Book              File Export>Archive
For each calendar in iCal    File>Export>Export
For Safari Bookmarks        File>Export Bookmarks
Google Earth                     My Places
etc
and to have the other app disks at hand to re-install, eg iLife and iWorks, MS Office (it must be 2008 or later, 2004 will not run) etc
You need to check the versions are all compatible with Lion.
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
If you have Snow Leopard, you can simply install on top of the existing OS, but if it is Leopard:
Boot into the clone (hold the option key at startup to select it)
... and buy and download the Lion installer to the clone, here:
http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/how-to-buy/
Use the clone's Disk Utility to erase the existing MBP hard disk, check the disk and remove any partitions, then install Lion to it. Then migrate the user data.
There will be a lot of further work to do, downloading and installing updated software for Adobe Flash, Java, Perian and your antivirus (ClamXav is good and free), for a start.
I know your sister will understand

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