Reply #31: I run in OS X 99% of the time

[BigMcLargehuge]

but I am no power user. You can still drag and backup with external drives, like in OS 9 they show up on the desktop as HDs. I back my writing up that way every week. I also throw it onto a CDRW in case of multiple HD failures. Drag - drop - burn. As for backing up an entire drive, you can do it with the Disk Copy utility. It's simple enough once you get the hang of it, but not as simple as OS 9.

I have only played around with the command line on rarest of occasions, so I am not really sure what I'd get from it.

Nice to know there's another Mac head here :)