Mac OSx Imaging questions

Hello everyone,
I have a couple of questions I'm sort of confused on. What I want to do is basically create an entire image of a hard drive and then deploy it later if the hard disk starts to fail. I've read the forums suggesting CCC and Superduper to clone hard disks using firewire. I have two Mac G5 and two intel macbooks. Unfortunately, the macbooks do not have a firewire port. One of myMac G5 10.5 is setup with a Raid 1 (mirrored) which I would like to use as a backup server for images. Is there an application similar to Ghost that can just create images of a macbook, macbook pro, mac pro or G5 in a compressed format to a server (G5 Mirrored)? I've notice a video of where a guy has several dmg files on his external hard drive, but then he restores them by booting the Mac OSx DVD on the destination mac and then restoring them through disk utility. First, how would I go about creating those bootable images to my G5 raided 1 (mirrored)?
Reference Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iWYBv5L_oY
Notice at 3:17 that he has multiple dmg. How would I go about creating several dmg for a macbook, macbook pro, mac mini for later restoration. I can actually just back those up on my G5 PC for backup, but later restore them if I need to.
Thanks for all the help.

Please do not use disc images for backups. They are a poor choice for backup. Better to clone your boot drives to an external using the Restore option in Disk Utility. For your MacBooks without Firewire use USB instead. Your Intel Macs require different drive partitioning than your PPC drives, so you need separate backup drives - two USB for the MacBooks and two Firewire for the G5s.
The Intel drives must be partitioned using GUID, while the G5s' drives are partitioned using APM. All are formatted Mac OS Extended, Journaled.
Once you make the bootable clone with Disk Utility you can maintain them by incrementally backing up changes using a utility like Carbon Copy Cloner or the licensed version of SuperDuper!.

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