Buildout : Disaster Recovery

Once you have your rig setup, you'll want to create a disk image so that you can re-roll your PC in the event of some disaster. Check out DriveImage XML at www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

DriveImage XML is free for personal use. You have two options when using DriveImage XML. Which one you use depends on how paranoid you are. :)

Create a clone of the internal hard drive to an external drive. This would come in handy if you wanted to carry around a backup in the event of a HD failure... if something went wrong with the internal HD, you could just plug in the USB/SATA external drive and boot from that.
Create a copy of the internal hard drive to a folder. This can go anywhere, but it's probably best to put it on an external hard drive.