Looking for a Mac disk imaging backup tool like Norton Ghost

Hi, I want to be able to take a disk image of my MAC Mini.

Is there a way that I can do this? In the Windows world I use Acronis True Image or Ghost.

For example.

I would like to erase my OSX, re-install it, add the applications and then take an image of it.

So that if I ran into any problems, I would have a complete image that I could restore from

I know I can restore the OS by going through the recovery option, but then I have to put all my apps back on and restore my...

Looking for a Mac disk imaging backup tool like Norton Ghost