other ways to make full phone backups?

im running this rom and recovery:

ROM: http://ift.tt/1KMdFWe

RECOVERY: http://ift.tt/1M68EBM

i decided to do a backup and then try to restore it recently. i've done this successfully in the past, but this time it gave me:

"createTarFork() process ended with ERROR=255"

needless to say, my knuckles are swollen and raw from punching walls and various flat vertical surfaces because this backup wouldn't restore.

so my question is: is it possible to make a complete image backup of a phone without making a nandroid backup of it? a COMPLETE IMAGE? WITHOUT TWRP/CWM?

A COMPLETE IMAGE

thanks..

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