Seem to have gotten a backup done finally. Took
a while.

mv 30gigs to big single partion on new
drive. Have finder hang a few times.
Resort to rsync.

Notice that I need to split it into two
partions, one bootable snapshot, one archive.

mv 30gigs back to internal harddrive.
Have finder hang again, revert to
rsync again.

partion drive into two junks.

mv 30gigs back to second partion.

ccc the main drive to the first
partion.

Only took about 6 hours. Writing
to the external firewire drive seems
faster than writing to internal drive.