Best way to make a bootable backup on an external HD

What is the best way to make a bootable copy of the startup drive on my mac. I have an external HD which would work. I already run Timemachine but if I'm correct it isn't bootable.
IMAC using MT. Lion
thanks in advance

If you create either a new partition on the external or Wipe, Repartition the external, and then create a New Full TM backup on either the wiped or new partition with Lion installed as the OS and you have a Recovery HD partition that Recovery HD partitionwill be copied over to the New TM backup and will be bootable.
TM backups made with Lion installed over the top of older ones made with Snow Leopard does not create the Recovery HD file on the TM backup drive. Only new TM backups created when Lion is installed does this.
Ot you can create anopther partition the external and use one of the Cloning software programs to Clone your internal to that other partitions

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     c1t2d1     (Destination Disk)
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0
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would be ufs. Only the raw device/slice must given to the command that newfs
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would be made with the command mount and option -F for filesystem = ufs and
-o for read or write = rw and at least which slice = 0. At the end of the
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because on the destination disk in this file are the information from the
source disk (it means source disk will be mounted on the device c1t2d0 and
the destination diks on the device c1t2d1). This information must be changed
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     ---------- /mnt/etc/vfstab ----------
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no
     /dev/dsk/c1t2d1s1 /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s1 /var ufs 1
no
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     newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s1: (y/n)? y
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Slice 4 and 5 are in our example not importante because this slice as
explained are for Disksuite metadb's and on the source disk there are at the
moment no information and no filesystem because Disksuite was not
initialized or configured.
It is a good idea to check the slices which where transfered files before.
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     # fsck /dev/rdsk/c1t0d1s1
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     # fsck /dev/rdsk/c1t0d1s4
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boot-block on the destination disk. If you don't create a boot-block the
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1,0/SUNW,pln at a0000000,753a58/ssd at 2,1:a
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