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Will CCC clone the "Recovery HD" partition on Lion?

 

When performing a block copy of a Lion volume, CCC will clone the Recovery HD volume. CCC will not clone this volume in an ordinary file-level backup. You can, however, recreate this partition using Apple's "Lion Recovery Disk Assistant" tool.

"Do I need to clone the Recovery HD partition if I have a CCC bootable backup?"

Your CCC bootable backup offers more "recovery" functionality than the Recovery HD because it is not only a fully functional installation of Mac OS X, it's your installation of Mac OS X — the one with all of your stuff. If you boot from your CCC backup, you can

The Recovery HD partition isn't going to work for you if your entire hard disk fails, and an Internet-based recovery service is going to be slow, even with a fast Internet connection. Your CCC backup will serve you quite well in lieu of a clone of the Recovery HD partition.