New to Mac, How to backup my system?

Hi, I was recently given a non-working G4 400 (PCI) PowerPC. Up until receiving this Mac I had never actually seen one in real life... PCs dominate over here in the UK. I'm a CompTIA A+ Certified PC Technician so have no problems working with hardware.
After searching some trouble-shooting guides I found that it wasn't recognising the drive so I pulled it and tested it on my main PC using a diagnostic CD. As I thought it was shot. After a bit more searching I found I could use any IDE drive up to 128gb to replace it and popped in a spare 40gb Maxtor and swopped the CD-Rom for a DVD-Rom, then used disc utility on an iBook G4 disc I was given to initialise the drive. But couldn't get the OS (OS X 10.3.4) to install as it only had 128mb of ram at the time (the ram sticks had no stickers to indicate type and size).
So I checked the specs for OS X and after some more searching found I didn't need to upgrade the firmware on this model to be able to install it. So I swopped the Ram for 4x 128mb sticks and changed the pram battery as it kept resetting the date and time. I was then able to install and update the OS. Since then it's been working fine.
For the last couple of days I've just been learning how to do the basic stuff like install and uninstall and generally just finding my way around the Gui. I'm now at the stage where I would like to backup the system so that in the event of a disaster I can restore everything as it is now.
At the moment I have no external drives, zip drive or DVD-RW so I would like to make a backup to the second partitian. What utility should I use to do this and how?

I would like to backup the system so that in the event of a disaster I can restore everything as it is now<<</div>
If you backup to another partition (volume) of the same drive, that's hardly a preventative measure against disaster ... disaster being; hard drive failure, fire, flood, theft and my more possibilities.
To help with any real disaster recovery you'll need to back up your data off-site. You can set up a .Mac account or use any FTP site to backup and store data safely. Or purchase an external DVD burner to create regular backup discs for storage in a safe deposit box.
-DH

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