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helsinkilegend

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Dec 4, 2006
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Hi Folks, hope we are all well. I'm about to backup and update my computer and have been reading all kinds of advice about how to do it and what software and hardware i should use, and unfortunately i'm even more uncertain. Hopefully someone on here can help me out with a simple straightforward solution.

I've an iMac and a Powerbook, 2 external hard drives, and was looking to purchase the Carbon Copy Cloner app. I was hoping to do the following (feel free to correct me if there is a better solution):

1. Create a bootable clone of my iMac to external drive 1
2. Create a bootable clone of my Powerbook to external drive 1
3. Backup iMac to external drive 1.
4. Backup external drive 1 to external drive 2

So i guess my questions would be, is the above possible to do, is it the best / safest way to backup everything, and
 
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