Backup Complete Hard Drive

[kate]

I have now used the backup and restore commands in Terminal with out any
problems when it comes to files and directories, but the situation is
that I can not back up the whole hard drive to a external hard drive
complete.

For Example to test the system I have placed jpegs onto desktop and
executed a complete dump after I have used the restore command to place
back all the data, that has worked but the desktop dose not show or
replace the files that I have deleted as a test.

What I mean is do a complete system back up onto a external hard drive,
erase or format the original and place back all directories and files as
it was originally.


Thanks Kate