How to make a bootable self installing backup image?

I have been searching the internet for an answer to my question and unable to do so.

What I want to do is make a bootable backup image that will self install without windows in case of an operating system failure where windows is unavailable. I want to image my C drive and make it so I can boot from CDR or DVDR and have it format the drive and reinstall my backup identical to the original. A long time ago I saw this done with Symantec Ghost on a job I was on but have no idea how to accomplish the task myself.

I was wondering if there is perhaps a better software out there now for making a total self restoring image of your haed drive such as this.

Thank you for your response. But I am looking for a self contained setup where the image of my HDD is contained on the boot disk itself along with the installation software. I know I can use a boot disk and access a backup image from my computer but that is not what I am trying to do. This will not work if there is a HDD failure. I want to be able to install this backup on any machine of my choosing.

How does the Light Out system work. Do you need a bootable revovery disk AND the image of your HDD as well? Does this require installing Symantec software on its own partition like some of the other software out there?

Acronis True Image makes a similar setup where you put your image on a seperate partition and recover from that. I think it is called the Acronis Safety Zone.

you can try Magic ISO and Ultra ISO, they can make a bootable disk that you can put anything on, although I never had good luck with Magic making a bootable