Best way to image my entire MacBook Pro

What can you folks recommend on imaging an entire drive for backup purposes? I have a large 1TB f/w external drive and would like to completely image my MBP 17 320GB drive to it. I've spent the past week since getting it building it to spec, including my BootCamp partition, and would like to image both for backup/recovery purposes.
I'll gladly pay for software that does this well (as well as the recovery part obviously - via boot DVD or what have you, reading from an external Firewire/USB drive/etc.) - recommendations?
Thanks

I can recommend Super Duper for making a bootable clone of the OS X partition of your drive:
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
I don't know what to use with Windows since I don't run it myself, but I would imagine that there is a comparable cloning utility.
To the best of my belief, you will have to clone the Mac Partition and the Windows partition separately--I don't know of any utility that would do both together. I think you can format the external drive so that you can do both OS X and Windows clones, with separate partitions for each which are identical in size to their respective partitions on the internal drive. But since I don't use Windows myself, I can't make any specific recommendations. Possibly someone else will be able to.
Good luck!

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