Creating Recovery DVDs for Windows 8.1

I just bought the Lenovo C560 All-in-One and it came with Windows 8.1. I was able to use the One Key Recovery to create a backup file on my hard drive, that from what I've read appears to be the same as having a recovery disk. However, I'd also like to create the back up disks on DVDs incase for some reason something happens to the file saved on the hardrive.
I open OneKey Recovery, Click on System Backup, Go to Back up to "Hard Disk or Removeable Hard Drive", then when I browse for a new location it will only display C:\ as the only option.
Is it not possible to create back up DVD's for Windows 8.1?
Also the Lenovo Solution Center is telling me to download Lenovo Rescue and Recovery, but it seems like that is only for Winows 7 and earlier. Do I need to download Rescue and Recovery or is OneKey Recovery what I need to use?
I should also say, I've browsed through this form and Lenovo's support pages, but nothing I found seemed to be for systems that came with Windows 8.1. The posts I read all seemed to be about poeple who had upgraded to 8.1 from another OS.

Windows 8 will allow you to make backups/system images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHjRZdL_kUs
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