I bought a 80Gg external firewire drive to do complete backups this weekend. Backup will not backup to a hard drive -- it will only use CD's or the iDisk. So I downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner. First CCC froze right out of the gate. Then CCC got hung up on my desktop files. So I moved them all to various folders on the HD. Finally it succeeded creating a copy of my 20G HD. It only took 2 1/2 hours. Well I guess this is better than the 7 1/2 hours it would take to back up to CD's. Now I have a question. How do I make a secure backup? After all, an external HD is even easier to steal than a computer. Emma Gilbride