[dnanian]

We don't have to save your entire hard drive if you don't want to, Steven. You can choose to only save your "User Files" -- basically, your Home folder. But, it's best to do the full disk backup.

If you do a full restore from a backup, all your files, including Mail and your Address book, come right back, as they were at the time of the backup. That's the great part about a full copy: even if your drive fails, you can start up from the backup and keep working as if nothing had happened.

Does that help?