Recovery Image How-to?

[naviathan]

Now that my system is up and running properly I'd like to make a recovery dvd. Basically I want a bootable dvd that will drop my current drive image onto the hard drive incase there is ever a problem. What would be the easiest way to do this?
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[uman]

1) Boot from a LiveCD
2) mount your partition at /mnt/gentoo
3) tar -cvvpj /mnt/gentoo/* -f /mnt/gentoo/backup.tar.bz2
4) Burn this to a disk.

Now to restore from that disk the steps are as follows:
1) Boot from a LiveCD
2) Reformat your partition
3) mount your (newly reformatted) partition at /mnt/gentoo
4) put in the recovery disc
5) mount the recovery disc
6) copy the tarball from the disc to /mnt/gentoo
7) cd /mnt/gentoo
8) tar -xvjpf backup.tar.bz2
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Gentoo Stable (some ~x86 in package.keywords)
Pentium 4 3.0 GHz w/HT
Reiser4 root partition
Nvidia GeForce 6800

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[naviathan]

That wasn't exactly what I had in mind, but that's a start.
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner