Laptop tragedy

[darkfyre_muse]

Help oh gurus of the technical world!
I currently am in possession of a functional laptop, boots logs-in launches software, that has a nonfunctional screen. And like all great procrastinators I put off my back-up. (I now have 320GB of external space, this will NOT happen again.) Is there a way to hook it to a external monitor to run the back-up OR back it up without seeing the screen.

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[kaelikat.livejournal.com]

Yeah - there should be a monitor hook up. And if the laptop doesn't immediately realize it's hooked up, there's usually some hotkey you hit to make it use the monitor. What make and model is the lsptop?