Backup and restore

Hello,

I'm getting 13" for my development machine. I'm used to work in VM, so my initial though was to use VMWare fusion and run my VM (which I use on windows via VMWare workstation). So, when I get new laptop, I can just copy VM over and keep on working in a same environment. My backup is easy, I just copy whole image to external drive once in a while. Beauty is that if Macbook fails - I can take image to any hardware and keep on going..

Now.. I read about VMWare Fusion feature where it can run bootcamp partition. This is super-cool. For longer sessions I can boot into Windows directly and not pay hypervisor price. For shorter sessions after hours, etc - I can just run it in VMWare.

But how do I backup my system? Is there any easy way to backup bootcamp partition to external drive and restore it to new laptop?