That's what Ghost was used for in 1997, when it first arrived in the US.
I worked in a small Computer and Printer repair shop and we used Ghost for cloning small hard drives to larger hard drives. Most people were still using DOS in those days and very few people were doing backups.
I'm not so closed minded that I've not tried the Windows versions of Ghost, Acronis True Image, and several other so called backup programs that shall remain unnamed. But I've always come back to the one program that just works, when others have failed.
For a secure backup procedure, the Backup and Restore program must not be on the main hard drive, in fact, its better if it's not on the computer at all.
When I make a Ghost backup of my C: drive, using my Ghost boot floppy, the program will ask me if I want it to put itself on the DVD, thus making it bootable. So every one of my Ghost backup DVD's is also a Ghost boot disk.
I don't intend to keep defending a great program that I've used reliably for 14 years.
I won't mention it again, on this forum.