How to create a back up disk of a Boot Up drive?

Hi all, I have a G5 with a start up drive A, i've created a new start up on a separate partition, drive B.
Installed the OS from Jaguar, Panther through to Tiger.
Now before I start installing all my audio applications, i'd like to back up Drive B to a DVD disk, is this possible?
So if i ever need to do a full re-install, i can skip the old OS installs and restore from the DVD. How would I do this?
Any help is throughly appreciated.
Thanks
Jazz
G5 Dual 2.0Ghz (Oct/03) - 4.5GB ram Mac OS X (10.4.7) 17in MBP C2D

What you are proposing sounds a bit convoluted; I'm not so sure I understand you fully.
I'll share with you my "belt-and-suspenders" method of backing up:
My boot drive is 40GB. My backup firewire drive is 230GB. I have the backup drive partitioned into two volumes; one 40GB and the other 190BG.
Every day I use SuperDuper to clone my entire boot drive to the 40GB partition. After it is done, I have an exact copy. If my boot drive fails, I can boot into the clone and continue working until I get the internal drive replaced.
But SuperDuper and other cloning programs have their limits. They protect well against hardware failure. But a far more common cause of data loss is user error; like when you accidentally delete a file. If you don't notice until after your next backup, SuperDuper will have purged the file from the clone. Software failure is another concern; like when your whole iPhoto library gets corrupted. Again, unless you catch it before the next scheduled backup, SuperDuper will replace the good library in the clone with the corrupted version.
That's why I also use Retrospect to make nightly archival backups. Every day it copies any new or changed folders over to an archive on the second partition. I can restore any file, folder, application, or even the whole drive, to any daily state in the last two months. If an important file gets corrupted or deleted, and I don't notice for 11 days, I just restore the 12-day old version from the archive.
That seems like it should cover it all, but there is also the problem of losing both the Mac and the backup drive to theft or fire. That's why I also have Retrospect back up my whole system to DVDs once a week or so, and store them off site. Retrospect's DVD backup system is quite good; it will continually append new or changed data to the same DVD until it is full and then prompt for a new DVD. So there's no need to re-burn a whole new set of DVDs every time.
This might seem like overkill, but my data is important to me and I can't imagine losing it all. You should have seen what happened when I accidentally deleted my wife's iMovie project of her whole pregnancy, and didn't have it backed up. I don't ever want to have to live through that again.

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