Lion Recovery Disk Assistant

Hi, i want to do a backup to my lion.
I have already installed lion and the installation was deleted. I can use this link: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433    Lion Recovery Disk Assistant
To make a DVD disc or USB flash disk of lion?
And how much memory it takes?
Thanks, liran

Boy, am I a day late!
Already discussion on it here.

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    Apple has released a booting and recovery tool for Lion that can be put on a flash drive.
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