Create full backup image for restore

Question

Hi,
I don't know why I'm finding this information is so difficult to locate. I've really tried to find information on my own but I guess I'll just need to create this post.
What I need is a piece of software, Apple or 3rd Party (don't mind paying) that will create a full, complete image of my iPhone 4. I won't go into the many details for this, they are many. I just want to be able to create a snapshot of my iPhone 4 so I can restore it to the exact state it is in now. I worry that using any software created by Apple will use info from my iTunes / iCloud data storage to create the image..
Let's pretend I have a computer NOT running iTunes. I want to create an image of my phone to transfer to my iPhone that will put it in the exact same state that is / it was before I do any tinkering. My iPhone 4 is not jailbroken. Nothing special.
I'd REALLY appreciate any help you might have that will steer me toward the software I need.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Well, thanks for the responses. I have been involved and writing code for Windows for well over 10 years. While I'm surrently not a developer I pretty much know what's going on in the WINDOWS software development environment. After MANY years I have learned to respect Apple's environment, in fact I'm actually learning to like it quite a bit. I never thought I'd be saying that.
However, in any software environment I've never gotton an answer to a question that was so direct -"you can't do that." While you may be 100% right but that answer is quite surprising given the fact that many millions of users are using Apple everyday.
There has to be an application that can give me just a cloned file from an iPhone so that it can be restored to the way it was prior to a change that might screw things up. It's the whole idea about creating a backup in the first place. In Windoes we have Ghost images and many more type utilities that will give you a file that can just be reloaded to the device. Rather it be a program, a folder, a disk...anything there has to be something unless Applr has written the whole operating system just to not allow images to be taken and then re-installed.
I really have looked for all of the applications that I find on the web and while most of them give me some of the functionally I need to accomplish creating an image, most solutions are really cumbersome. The Copy-Trans set of tools have this functionallity but haven't been designed to do, what I consider, a crucial task. In general an application would generate a (in my case) 32GB file that, with some other utility would re-load that image so that my phone would be rolled back to the state it was prior to making any other changes.
The functionality I'm looking for really doesn't even involve the "phone" part of the iPhone - it's everything else! I just want an application to get me back to the point I am right now. After generating the image I would then like to make those chages and, if they mess up my phone, I could just load the image created and I'd be back to where I was.Maybe I'm asking the question poorly but to me this is just basic functionality.
What['s important to me is backing up all of the unlicensed stuff on my iPhone. Such as pictures, contacts, notes, data in some applications as well as the apps themselves, music I've actually ripped from older CDs I've purchased and legally imported into iTunes / iPhone 4...To Me BASICALLY everything.
Does this help anyone in making the answer to my question a little more clear? This has to be a lack of a Windows person (Me) to everyone else. As I said the more I get into the Apple world of computing tools the more I think that Apple has done some Amazing things.