No 10.8 disc set with new Mini?

So I understood from the guy at the Apple store when I bought my Mini that there is a partition on my drive where the OS is stored. It didn't dawn on my until I remembered the reason why I bought this new mini.....what happens if my hard disc fails and I need a new one. My last Mini had no retrievable data, not a problem since I do daily back ups. But in the event my drive ever goes down on this how do I go about installing 10.8 on the new drive?
I have an external DVD burner/drive I on tap for any disc issues so would have that, but I don't understand how Apple assumes the owner will get the OS on their system in the event of a drive failure. Thanks.

All new Macs support an Internet Recovery mode where the contents of the Recovery HD partition are downloaded from the Internet. You can get to this mode by rebooting and holding Command-R if the Recovery HD is not available (ie, with a new HD in place), or you can force it into this mode by holding Option-Command-R at boot.
You can also use Apple's Recovery Disk Assistant to create a standalone USB drive containing the Recovery tools: http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1433

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