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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1483411"><p>The clone, while not a bad idea, is strictly optional these days. There's much less need for it then there once was, thanks to Internet Recovery (which is part of Lion and Mountain Lion).</p><p></p><p>You definitely need a backup, and you've got one in Time Machine's backups to your external drive. Should the hard drive in your main machine fail, you would replace it and then recover from Time Machine. You can also recover your OS through Internet Recovery and then recover your personal data (User Folder, etc) from Time Machine if a full recovery from Time Machine isn't possible, so you're pretty well-covered already.</p><p></p><p>Having a second, cloned backup adds the convenience of being able to boot back up immediately after an internal HD failure and continue working (or troubleshooting/saving data etc) but that's really about it's only purpose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1483411"] The clone, while not a bad idea, is strictly optional these days. There's much less need for it then there once was, thanks to Internet Recovery (which is part of Lion and Mountain Lion). You definitely need a backup, and you've got one in Time Machine's backups to your external drive. Should the hard drive in your main machine fail, you would replace it and then recover from Time Machine. You can also recover your OS through Internet Recovery and then recover your personal data (User Folder, etc) from Time Machine if a full recovery from Time Machine isn't possible, so you're pretty well-covered already. Having a second, cloned backup adds the convenience of being able to boot back up immediately after an internal HD failure and continue working (or troubleshooting/saving data etc) but that's really about it's only purpose. [/QUOTE]
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