How to make recovery disks for Lion OS.

Hello Everyone,
I had bought a MacBook Pro 13" core 2 duo last year, I am planning to upgrade the OS from Snow Leopard to Lion. The doubt that is stopping me to purchase the Lion OS from the app store is that if I install the new OS and may be in future I need to format the computer how will I take the backup of the OS. Do I need to purchase the OS again after formatting the computer.
Regards
Raghav Aggarwal

raghav_aggarwal wrote:
Do I need to purchase the OS again after formatting the computer.
No.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
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