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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1743000" data-attributes="member: 190607">Yes, I said that in my post.&quot;If you have a clone backup all you have to do is designate the hard drive with the clone backup on it as the startup disk in your System Preferences (on any Macintosh computer), and you can go on with your work/life as if nothing happened.&quot;&quot;If your main drive fails, you can still restore it from a versioned backup, but there will be quite a bit more time and work involved than with a clone backup to get things approximately to where they were before your main drive failed, and to create a drive that you can boot from.&quot;There are excellent reasons to have both a clone backup and a versioned backup.&nbsp; However, if a user only intends to have one or the other, a clone, in my mind, is the better choice.&nbsp; But having only a versioned backup wouldn't be a disaster, and it might actually be a godsend if your data were to become infected or corrupted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1743000, member: 190607"] Yes, I said that in my post. "If you have a clone backup all you have to do is designate the hard drive with the clone backup on it as the startup disk in your System Preferences (on any Macintosh computer), and you can go on with your work/life as if nothing happened." "If your main drive fails, you can still restore it from a versioned backup, but there will be quite a bit more time and work involved than with a clone backup to get things approximately to where they were before your main drive failed, and to create a drive that you can boot from." There are excellent reasons to have both a clone backup and a versioned backup. However, if a user only intends to have one or the other, a clone, in my mind, is the better choice. But having only a versioned backup wouldn't be a disaster, and it might actually be a godsend if your data were to become infected or corrupted. [/QUOTE]

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